Text to speech software

[AntVonBond]

I saw the thread someone posted about how Shiftee compiles and mixes a mixtape and it mentioned some mac software that converts text to audio and outputs it to say aiff/mp3/wav, Lips, i think it was called?

Is there anything similar available for Windows out there? Cheers

[basspenetrator]

http://tinyurl.com/38v5444

1st one looks good.. didnt test it..

[Maxted]

http://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/tex...chproducts.php

http://www.dyslexia.com/helpread.htm

http://www.bytecool.com/

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/w...les/56395.aspx

http://www.brothersoft.com/verbose-t...are-50244.html

Few quick links i dug up, might help, the top one looks cool.

Also, have you tried the Narrator if you're on Windows 7?

The ideal choice if i was in your position would be Vocaloid from what i hear, but it isn't cheap.

On a side note check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI

She is like the voice for vocaloid or something like that (I haven't used it) and they use a 3d model of her on a glass screen on the stage. A lot of you have probably seen it, but the applications of this could be endless.

[AntVonBond]

thanks guys, will check those out!

[jprime]

I like this one:

http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

[Bassline Brine]

depends to how much text to speech you want to do, but if I remember correctly (don't own it anymore) fruity loops had a pretty decent vocoder that's been in every version. It allows text-to-speech in a "production friendly" environment, with a choice of different voices and intonations.

[Coldfuzion]

The best text to speech program i've ever used (I used to use it on my PC before I fried it [long story, well not really but anyway] is called Dragon Naturally Speaking. The new one is pretty amazing. I used it the entirety of this semester and I wrote countless essays on it, and it made my life super easy.