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Re: Talking web browser? (emulation)

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From: Maximillian Schwanekamp
Date: Feb 3, 2005 11:16PM

redux wrote:
> On Windows, you can combine FANGS with Foxyvoice
> http://foxyvoice.kenche.info/

Thanks for the recommendation for Foxyvoice! It works, although the
default "Microsoft Sam" voice is a bit primitive; However I found that
you can download the MSSAPI SDK (68MB)[0] and get additional voices -
"Microsoft Mike" and "Microsoft Mary" are somewhat clearer. This, with
Foxyvoice, gives (for me anyway) the best linearized text-to-speech
picture yet of my sites. FANGS is good too, as it emulates the Links
and Headings lists in screenreader software.

I was not able to get Foxyvoice to read FANGS output, but they're still
good free tools for this.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

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Maximillian Von Schwanekamp
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