[gui-talk] text to speech programs.

[Ed Lain]

Hi! netters:

My hard drive failed reently and I lost everything. Computer shop 
tried to retrieve my files and documents, but were able to save only 
a few as the old hard drive, for some unknown reason, became 
corrupted. All my e-mail including addresses are gone with the wind.

The folk at gwmicro are working with me trying to figure out why I 
can get Double Talk Lite to work. It did before the crash.

But in the meantime I have been using the Dectalk programs that comes 
with Window-Eyes and the Microsoft voice, which, is terrible. I often 
must spell a word in order to understand what it is saying.

All this bring me to the question: have any of you had experience 
with the Text To Speech programs use the Nuance voices. Can I 
substitute one of their voice for the awful thing from Windows? Can 
the program be run as a substitute for Double Talk? At the moment, I 
am running Window-Eyes 6.1. Would appreciate help and advice.

Ed Lain