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From: tony@nswitgould.OZ (Tony McGrath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Text -> Speech Programs
Message-ID: <3388@nswitgould.OZ>
Date: 22 Dec 87 01:50:38 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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I am making this inquiry on behalf of a partially sighted person
who has recently purchased an Atari ST.

What he is looking for is a Text -> Speech conversion program that
would allow him to hear the contents of a text file. I know that there
is a simple speech program available called ST-TALK that performs this
function, but only on text typed from the keyboard.

Does anybody know of a similar program that could read a file of text
and then speak it back? Are there sources available for the aforementioned
ST-TALK that might be modified to make it work on text files?

Please reply to me by mail, unless, of course, you think it is important
enough to post.

Tony McGrath
tony@nswitgould.OZ