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speech text software wanted

by Batista230 Apr 20, 2015 12:11AM PDT

Hi
I'm looking for some speech to text software
where you type the text or copy and paste the text into the box and it talks to you
Have seen a few freebee ones off the google search but you can only input about 100 letters at a time
And I need to do a few pages per time and hopefully save them so I can play them back offline

Obviously if I'm going to have to pay for it it I'm going to have to pay for it
But I would like to find the better deal
But free would be better

Thanks

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It's half a page of code.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 20, 2015 1:05AM PDT

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms720163%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Visual Express is free for your use so there it is. 14 LINES OF CODE.

That's a good start and why you can do this.
Bob

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what is it?

by Batista230 Apr 22, 2015 12:10PM PDT

Hi Bob
Not really sure what that is that link you supplied
Is it something I have to download or something already installed in the windows O/S?

But will have a good read up on it over the weekend when I have some spare time

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Yes and yes.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 22, 2015 12:44PM PDT

The Speech API is already in Windows. This app lets you tap into that.

It's 14 lines of code to have it say hello world. Now to have it say what you type in, that would be about 2 more lines of code.

See why folk write their own? It's a great small app to get your feet wet.
Bob

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(NT) My bad. It's 6 lines long.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 22, 2015 12:46PM PDT

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Re: the link

by Batista230 Apr 23, 2015 4:14AM PDT

Cant seam to get that vidio link at the top of the page to work for some reason (the one with the microphone)

so I have saved the .vsb from notepad
what next?
I mean do I have the VSB drivers on my O/S
Or what is strop 4?

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Re: error

by Batista230 Apr 23, 2015 4:15AM PDT

Sorry I ment step 4

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There was no step 4.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 23, 2015 5:02AM PDT

It was 6 lines long and native to Windows.
Bob

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PS. Open source app. ONE LINE TO TYPE.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 23, 2015 9:04AM PDT

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

Command line. Doesn't look challenging.

To use at the command line, type:
espeak "This is a test"

Bob

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Re: Thanks

by Batista230 Apr 24, 2015 9:41AM PDT

its done the job
Thanks

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another problem

by Batista230 Apr 29, 2015 12:01PM PDT

So the voice text software works
But the problem is its not loud enough through my laptop speaker
I have the volume in control panel set to full but driving down the road with a heavy diesel engine running you cant hear it so well

So I bough my self a pair of PC speakers but they dont work!
Because as Bob will probably remember; over the christmas period I had some issues with my laptop (O/S and drivers that I have been unable to sort out)
I have no sound drivers and can not install them!

Any ideas please?
Thanks

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A sound bar.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 29, 2015 12:09PM PDT

Laptop speakers are pretty small.

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Examples.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 29, 2015 12:28PM PDT

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=clip+on+speakers+for+laptop&tag=cnet&index=electronics&hvadid=12447710604&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1400168435104930179&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7wfn9e4dwd_b

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the above link

by Batista230 Apr 30, 2015 6:08AM PDT

do those speakers come with drivers or are they plug and play

The speakers I got from Argos are 'trust miller 2.0'
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1077685.htm

there was no disk in the box
can I download drivers for it?

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Both.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 30, 2015 6:14AM PDT

I've had some that go into the speaker jack and that's it. Some are USB powered and a speaker jack and a few that are just some USB connection. Then my latest is Bluetooth and for power I connect to USB. That's 4 varieties of hookup.
Bob

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the speaker

by Batista230 May 1, 2015 8:53AM PDT

this one is has a speaker jack for sound and a usb for power

is there any other way I can turn my laptop speaker up?

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Sorry but

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 1, 2015 9:11AM PDT

I don't own your laptop so I can't guess if there is any more that can boost that. You should know your PC well enough to look at the speaker and control panels.
Bob

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r. proffitt · Accepted Answer · Apr 22, 2015 12:45PM PDT

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Let's say 14 lines of code is too hard.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 22, 2015 12:45PM PDT

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-convert-text-to-audio-using-notepad/ is 5 lines long and doesn't use Visual Studio.
Bob

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