That's like saying "don't use that blue ink for writing your correspondence, it's for personal use only".Trebor wrote:There are free online text-to-speech converters , some realistic, some a bit "Stephen Hawking" ...ABQChris wrote:..., if text-to-speech programs that sounded halfway comprehensible didn't cost an arm and a leg, I'd probably just go with one of those.
Microsoft Windows does come with text-to-speech , but IIRC legally it's speech output cannot be broadcast ,
( i.e. personal use only ), a Podcast is a broadcast. ( Probably true of Adobe Reader's text-to-speech too).
I do use my TTS voices regularly, they were certainly expensive enough. The voices that come along with MS aren't not worth a consideration anyways.
The voices of the MS speech platform are much better, but they may have the same restrictions.
@ABQChris
You could include a sample that sounds "pleasant" to your ears, we can maybe construct a filter that approaches that ideal.