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trouble reading?

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ok, i know i cant spell, i am working on it.

anyway, i want people who find it hard to read large text amounts to click on something, and it plays something, and it would be something that would read the articals



is their anything i can do, make?
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Text-to-speech?


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text to speech yes...


oh, thanks fro the spelling
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I've seen a toy built in Flash that had text-to-speech. Newer versions of Opera have text-to-speech as well. If you're wanting to build this yourself, I'm sorry to say it likely won't happen. Decent speech synthesis is quite complicated.
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so i should use my mac and recored it, as my mac can read all the articals, and then i can add the script to the cms somehow?




the problem with that is it sounds like this... http://www.runehints.com/Black%20Knight ... rtress.wav
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Provided you have the permission from Apple, or however owns the software, to use it, you can do whatever you wish. Honestly, if someone has enough trouble reading, they probably know about the various text-to-speech services available to them.

You can work to increase the readability of the articles however. Like breaking them into shorter pages, increasing the whitespace, and shortening the lines to more manageable chunks for people.
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is their anything that you know of, that will read it, just like that, or even better


i do have permisison to use that, but we have hundereds of articals, and it will take a long time, and if you listened to it, it picked up a lot of outside sound
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this forum isn't really the best place for find answers to such things. If you have money there are plenty of applications out there that will turn text into speech but none of them will do as gooder job as real human - one that can speak reasonably well that is.
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yeah, ok, thanks, ill use that, ill keep this post open for code edits ect
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