- Intelligible / clarity
- Convert to MP3 and to video
- Sound quality (natural sounding voice)
- plugin for browser
- pause between sentence
- pause between paragraphs
- pause between un-ordered list items
- pause and read number of ordered list items
- option to watch clipboard
- ability to add / share custom pronounciation.
- ability to read highlighted / selected text and remember selected text after it finish reading.
- ability to highlight the current word / sentence (especially for reading long articles)
- ability to ignore certain characters (configurable)
- multiple voices
- clean user interface
- speak object under the mouse (the chrome of the application, for people who identify themselves as completely blinded)
- echo keyboard input (word, characters, sentences, arrow key) for user that identified himself / herself as almost completely blind.
- echo dragon voice input
- lock toolbar to active window
- spell check new words before learning them
- automatically learn new words
- Handle abbreviation correctly or let me customize it
- able to dynamically change text
- able to response to human voice (via a push button on the headset, or via a keyboard button, or via special voice command)
- Hotkeys
- automatically start up after login
- reside in system tray when closed
Microsoft Reader
Microsoft Reader
Cepstral
Zabaware Ultra Hal TTS Reader
Ivona
NextUp TextAloud
ReadPlease
Acapela
Fonix
Loquendo
NeoSpeech
Sakrament
Wizzard
Nuance RealSpeak
More TTS software
TextToSpeechBlog
Active TTS
Macromedia Director
TTS - Text To Speech/Speech Synthesis - Babelfish.org
Advanced Text to Speech
Microsoft Third Party Products: Text-to-Speech Engines
http://www.guangmingsoft.net/activetts/
http://www.neospeech.com/
http://www.download.com/Simple-TTS-Reader/3000-2169_4-10854764.html
ReadPlease ReadPlease comparision
http://www.flamereader.com/
http://www.textic.com/
MBROLA project
FreeTTS
http://www.download.com/Advanced-Text-to-Speech/3000-7239_4-10071184.html
NaturalReader NaturalReader comparision
http://www.tucows.com/preview/322007
Verbose
Oddcast.com
SitePal
AT&T
AT&T
How To Configure and Use Text-to-Speech in Windows XP
IBM
Microsoft Third Party Products on Text-To-Speech
Yakitome Voice of the web
Voice recogintion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_synthesis
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Text_to_Speech
TTS Blog
http://www.dyslexic.com/textcomp
http://www.masternewmedia.org/text-to-speech/text-to-speech-tools/guide-to-best-text-to-speech-tools-20070701.htm
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/k3000demo/k3000demo20.html
http://www.freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/wynn_features.asp
http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp?pg_id=10019
Apply TTS softwares to these pages:
http://simon.incutio.com/slides/2006/etech/javascript/js-reintroduction-notes.html
