Accessability TTS

After having some rather nasty dental work done (four rather complex wisdom teeth removed) I have been left unable to speak for a while. Finding this to be annoying I thought to myself that I have a Windows laptop that has TTS (text to speech) built in.

A few lines of VBS later and I have a magic speaking machine which has proved very helpful:

c:\scripts\Say.vbs

Code:

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set s = CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice")
do While 1
Voice = inputbox("what to say")
wscript.echo "> " & Voice
s.Speak Voice
loop

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With a nice little shortcut running it in cscript

Code:

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C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe /NoLogo c:\scripts\say.vbs

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Not pretty at all but it says what you type when you hit enter and outputs a log to the command window in case the TT version is indecipherable. I changed the font size in the command window up to 16 and it seems to work really well for the simple hack that it is.

I might make it better but I don't think I'd be mute for long so it serves my current needs. Just thought it might help someone some day.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by SYNACK

I might make it better but I don't think I'd be mute for long so it serves my current needs. Just thought it might help someone some day.

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Without it just sounding like I'm taking the pee, Henry hoover + talking script + self reset password machine = genius! :)

Who needs to talk to kids ever again!

Steve

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Steve21

Without it just sounding like I'm taking the pee, Henry hoover + talking script + self reset password machine = genius! :)

Who needs to talk to kids ever again!

Steve

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For those with a nice old school Windows CE or Windows Mobile device this little app allows the same kind of thing on a phone:
Download Flite 1.3 for Windows Mobile PocketPC Free - Flite text-to-speech is a speech synthesis engine. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques - So