OT: Text to Speech, Speech to Text software

[Ken Abrahamsen]

Hi Michael, 

See http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/996774/ 

for some ways of buying Dragon at reduced prices. 

hth 

KenA 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at GMAIL.COM> 
To: BOATANCHORS at LISTS.TEMPE.GOV 
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:22:06 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: OT: Text to Speech, Speech to Text software 

All I have to say at this point is "WOW."  Thank you all for your 
responses both on list and private.  I'm posting on list to answer a 
bunch of comments and clarify a few things. 

Bill, you've got nothing to apologize for.  People will read things as 
they will and without audible or visual cues it's difficult to know 
what is actually meant in many cases. 

While I have a long history with computers, Noelle doesn't plus she's 
3500 miles away which makes hands-on work a bit difficult.  Windoze is 
a familiar and comfortable world for her while I've got time in an 
array of OSs, both PC and mainframe, including an assortment of *IX 
variants.  It might not help my reputation any to also mention I had a 
friendly association with the original Pirates Bay in the 90s and 
going that path again isn't out of the question if pressed. 

We've gone to several associations looking for assistance but nothing 
has come up, in a few cases because she has "complications" (MS, 
Fibromyalgia, Meniere's Disease etc) and is terminal.  In the past 
year, we've pretty much exhausted available resources which is why I 
came here and went way off topic to see if anyone here has any ideas. 
It's not something I would do unless I'd reached a point of utter 
desparation. 

Boy did people have ideas!  While the majority had to do with Linux 
apps - not a problem if we were together since we'd both be running it 
in a dual boot environment - a few didn't.  Linux isn't a problem for 
me but I don't want to confuse her any more than necessary and with 
the med load she's on (30 different meds daily plus another half dozen 
or so as needed) that's not difficult.  From what I've read, Dragon 
Naturally Speaking seems to be the speech to text favorite with 
several offerings for text to speech worth investigating.  I doubt 
I'll find anything that uses the AT&T voices she and I love so much 
but I'm always digging and may find something.  AT&T might not be 
adverse to donating one or two of the voices if I can (or so the sales 
rep implied) so the first part of the problem is finding software that 
uses them.  Wheee! 

BTW: Dragon has come down by a lot since it was introduced, even the 
special versions.  This rather surprised me. 

If anyone has further ideas, please let me know.  Until then, let's 
turn the lists over to the usual unscheduled fun.  :-) 

mahalo nui loa 

Best regards, 

Michael, WH7HG ... father of the most wonderful daughter ever 
-- 
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx 
http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/ 
http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com 
Hiki Nô! 

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