you may try another free vocoder, the vocovee. but i have not tried it myself, so i cannot tell you how it good it is.

SayIt from AnalogX... http://analogx.com/conten...dio/sayit/Freeware.htm

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I've used this site : http://www.text2speech.org/

Zeano182


ok just downloaded Tal. when turning it on in the effects channel it mutes the audio track sound? and when i turning it off my original sound will play again???

http://forum.cakewalk.com...mpage=1&print=true

Lots of ebook programs like Microsoft e-reader do text to speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Reader

You can create your own texts to have it read.

If you don't mind a female voice, You can use Narrator if you're in Windows.  Do a search on it from the Windows start bar.  

I turned off the menu reading options, and open Wordpad, typed what I wanted to say, and highlighted it.  It read it perfectly. 

There are a few options to slow down and change the pitch, but not much.

For a male voice you could record it and slow it down much further.  I think if you have XP it used a male Voice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKfdBkT-unk)

another option is the free GSnap Autopitch - you can try the presets "robotic" and "single pitch", these create very robotic sounds too!

Use the Text Speaker, text to speech software. It has customizable pronunciation and can create WAV or MP3's from your text.  The bundled voices are well priced and there is an excellent selection.

I must admit that I'm pretty much done with text to speech converters to be honest. I've tried all of the above and then run the output through a couple of different vocoders, some free, some paid for. Result has been, in a word, awful and I am now of the opinion that I need to create the speech with my own voice instead. Not an inspiring prospect, which is probably why I have done that yet, but it has to be better than the current run of text to speech converters currently available.

My vocoder of choice is now Vocodex by Image Line.