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gweeptish said:
Speech is standard in a Mac

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Mac? What is this Mac you speak of?

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trallyus said:
Its standard in XP as well but the voices that come with XP are crappy That is why I said get the neospeech voices

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Meow Kitty said:
what are you using e books then having them read?

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Once in a while I use text aloud with the neospeech voices to make my own audible books

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Meow Kitty said:
I don't know if I could listen to those voices.

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If you want a sample of the voices I use - the neospeech voices - go to http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html and type something in and choose the kate or paul voices and see what the difference is between the ones that come with microsoft

Mind you I bought the neospeech voices from zabaware along with ultra hal but they are worth it compared to the ones that come with the computer by default. They take up like 300 megs of space and are pretty realistic when used properly

That oddcast demo only works 3 times then you need Clear the "oddjack" cookie after three entries to do more. Found on digg

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Joseph said:
I don't like machines that talk to me, nor do I like "speaking" to them. It's just not natural.

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You will be assimilated Joseph of 9

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Joseph said:
I don't like machines that talk to me, nor do I like "speaking" to them. It's just not natural.

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I agree

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Meow Kitty said:

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Joseph said:
I don't like machines that talk to me, nor do I like "speaking" to them. It's just not natural.

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I agree

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You will be assimilated Meow Kitty of 9

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Meow Kitty said:
I'm finding most the books that are selling for around $20 online at the Library on CD. Is there any reason to not get them from the library?

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Hey Amy,
A while back Adam Curry mentioned a site for free audible books that were from the public domain and read by real people You may want to check them out at http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/

They also link to a ton of audio stuff that would make good listening to as well like the mercury theatre at http://www.mercurytheatre.info/ and a ton of literary podcasts as well

It is a great untapped resource for audible books and great audible stories as well.

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Meow Kitty said:
I think I have it sort of figured out. Put the audio book cd in. When the cd is in the tracks will be listed. right click on each as you go down and select get info and on the info tab use the drop down to pick audio book. If anyone comes up with a faster way let me know asap please.

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Joseph said:
There is no LAME plug-in for Windows' iTunes.

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For sound conversion I love and use a program I registered called dBpower AMP Music Converter

It's only for windows users at the moment but I use it alot to convert windows media files and real player files to mp3 format so I can listen to them on my ipod. It uses plug ins so you only install the base program and the plugins you need.

It used to be free but they had to charge folks to use the mp3 encoder due to licensing restrictions. Well worth the one time payment of $14 especially if your an audio nut

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bubazoo said:
thanks for that trallyus,

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By the way, the 14 bucks is only for the mp3 encoder, so if you encode the files in AAC for an ipod you probably could get away with using it for free. They used to have it as freeware until the makers of mp3 wanted them to pay for using the encoder.