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From: Dave Merrill
Date: Jun 18, 2013 10:28AM

Thanks for the pointer to Cepstral, but far as I can see, they don't
provide a way for a web site to offer to read pages aloud. Visitors have to
purchase and install their voices.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:13 PM, McMorland, Gabriel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> This company is developing a variety of text to speech technologies.
> www.cepstral.com/
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> Don't know. I wasn't aware that there was anything a site could do short
> of providing actual recordings that would provide this functionality, so
> when it was mentioned I wondered how it was done. (I'm a web programmer
> interested in accessibilty, but not really an expert on it.)
>
> It does look like BrowseAloud can do something like this. Are there other
> similar solutions?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> >
> > >Can someone tell ignorant me how this is typically implemented? Do
> > >they
> > have
> > >one or more recordings of the part and/or its sections pre-done? Or
> > >are
> > they
> > >suing some sort of server-side text-to-speech technology?
> > >
> > >
> > Are you referring to products like BrowseAloud?
> > http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id€094
> > I think there are others on the market like this too.
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