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#133028 - 03/08/06 03:36 PM audible books
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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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#133029 - 03/08/06 03:50 PM Re: audible books
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None whatsoever. Just check abridged or unabridged
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#133030 - 03/08/06 05:04 PM Re: audible books
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If you want to invest some money, you can make your own audible books Just go to http://www.nextup.com/ and purchase talk aloud and I love the NeoSpeech voices

The best way to create a book is to divide it in to chapters and create the audible book that way
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#133031 - 03/08/06 05:38 PM Re: audible books
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Speech is standard in a Mac
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#133032 - 03/08/06 05:49 PM Re: audible books
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gweeptish said:
Speech is standard in a Mac




Mac? What is this Mac you speak of?
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#133033 - 03/08/06 05:50 PM Re: audible books
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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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#133034 - 03/08/06 05:51 PM Re: audible books
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#133035 - 03/08/06 08:59 PM Re: audible books
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The pre-Mac OS X voices were scary. I believe they called one of them Fred.
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#133036 - 03/08/06 09:04 PM Re: audible books
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They still do. He's still there
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#133037 - 03/08/06 09:45 PM Re: audible books
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Mine is set on Vicki.
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#133038 - 03/09/06 09:18 AM Re: audible books
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Quote:

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


You call those voices?
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#133039 - 03/09/06 10:11 AM Re: audible books
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He's easily sated
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#133040 - 03/09/06 10:20 AM Re: audible books
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Like I said, the default voices are crappy and that is why I recommended the NeoSpeech Voices
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#133041 - 03/09/06 04:32 PM Re: audible books
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what are you using e books then having them read?
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#133042 - 03/09/06 04:39 PM Re: audible books
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Meow Kitty said:
what are you using e books then having them read?




Once in a while I use text aloud with the neospeech voices to make my own audible books
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#133043 - 03/10/06 04:18 PM Re: audible books
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I don't know if I could listen to those voices.
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#133044 - 03/10/06 05:10 PM Re: audible books
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Meow Kitty said:
I don't know if I could listen to those voices.




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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#133045 - 03/10/06 05:37 PM Re: audible books
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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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#133046 - 03/10/06 06:04 PM Re: audible books
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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.




You will be assimilated Joseph of 9
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#133047 - 03/10/06 09:25 PM Re: audible books
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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.


I agree
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