what is speech synthesis?
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Artificial speech. Made by machine. Robot laguage.
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speech reconition is a complex process. first the program is installed with all known tones. it is then programmed with all know english grammer and useing these tones. with this type of program, 99% of all english spoken into the microphone will be spelled correctly.
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Yes, there is speech integration in Mac OS X, both speaking and listening.  You kinda got me stumped on a few of your bullets there, but I'll give it my best shot.\n\nYou can record text, but not directly to MP3s.  You can make a short Applescript or use Automater to save the text to AIFF and if you so desire, add another element to import to iTunes and compress it.  Not that hard, did it in 2 min, and you can set it to do it automatically.\n\nNot sure about queing multiple articles in readers like Zeino or whatever that article reader is called, but there again, if nothing else, you can script it.\n\nYou can adjust reading speed and various other verbosity qualities, as well as rate, pitch, and volume.  You can also have different voices for different things.\n\nYou can adjust the default read speed, but I don't think you can do it on the fly.  Could be wrong here, but I've never run into that option.\n\nI don't see any options for highlighting text as it's being read, but you do have the option of a caption window.\n\nYou can set a key or key combo to read text that is highlighted.\n\nYou can customize how the computer says certain words.\n\nSpeech recognition is also cool, and you can navigate through windows, look up address book entries, and much more without even using your keyboard.
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Audacity.\nIt's free (open source)\nhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Many of them but there isnt one commercially available that works very good when it comes to converting your speech to text. I use IBM via voice and it works well when converting text to speech but to use it to convert speech to text it isnt vey accurate even with it fully trained. I have tried others and they are all the same. Speech recognition is far from perfect yet. If you just want to convert text to speech any of them will work.
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What we speak is sound and sound needs a medium to travel. So our speech cannot go into space.\n\nHowever what we speak creates some disturbance in the atmosphere in the form of pressure changes. These changes die down after some time and become undetectable. If we have some means of capturing these dying out changes, our speech can be heard after sometime but with present technology this is not possible
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Macintosh has made a Computer that respond to the vocal commands and do what do  say to do.\nIt's so beautiful, and good :)
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Microsoft windows xp and 2000 had a built in program that does that for you. Click Start>then click Control Panel> click on Speech icon and follow the prompts. Good luck!
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Yes.  You should use e-Speaking Voice and Speech Recognition Software.  This software includes both text to speech as well as speech to text.  It is based on the Microsoft Speech engine which may be downloaded to your computer at no cost.  The "natural" sounding voices, however, are offered by NeoSpeech.com and they aren't exactly free.  \n\ne-Speaking is shareware and at $14 is pretty close to being free.  Download it and give it a try for 30 days.\n\nCheck out the video at YouTube:\n  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYu6_cNRCD4
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"Talkit" from microsoft. very small program but funny and enjoyable.You can listen your text in 20 different voices with adjustable frequency, picth and speed.
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my experience with naturally speaking has not been a pleasant one.  it was ultimately unusuable and i soon removed it from my system.  it simply made way too many mistakes when interpreting voice commands or dictation - no matter how many times i trained it.
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I believe the program you are looking for is e-Speaking at (www.e-Speaking.com).  This program uses the Microsoft Speech Application Interface (SAPI) which you have already installed on your system and begun the training.\n\nThe e-Speaking program allows you to assign programs, keyboard macros, and launch documents, websites, mouse clicks, etc. etc. using commands that are recognized by the SAPI speech engine.  e-Speaking was designed as a graphical front-end software to the Microsoft Speech Engine.  e-Speaking was specifically designed for Windows XP systems.  \n\ne-Speaking is shareware and has a 30 day trial period.  Please feel free to give it a try and see if it suppliments what you are seeking to do.\n\nSeveral videos showing e-Speaking are available for you to view online at YouTube.com
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yup...\ntext to speech is what you want :)\n\nyou can get freebeez at:\nnatural soft:\nhttp://www.naturalreaders.com/download.htm\nread please:\nhttp://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/\n\nthe free stuff sounds a bit mechanical when it reads for you, if you want to get something much more identical to human voice - get AT&T natural voice pack.\n\nit comes as part of some "not freebeez" software like:\nscansoft's dragon naturally speaking\nhttp://www.scansoft.co.uk/naturallyspeaking/standard/\nor the IBM websphere voice server\nhttp://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/voice_server/\n(they are even working on reading arabic with that one)\n\nHave fun!
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Well I'm doing my part.  My computer and I have regular conversations.  Well.  Almost regular.  I have been working at integrating TTS and Speech Recognition into a single application.  With the aid of an animated Avatar, this software seems to work as a real agent.  Although hopefully not as bad as agent Smith from the Matrix.  Check it out on YouTube:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYu6_cNRCD4
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a great one to use? go to their website to learn more about it! here http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/
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check out www.syntheticphonics.com
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A speech event is just a plain conversation between people where there is an exchange of spoken words between them.(Do correct me if i am wrong)