Text-To-Speech for Long Posts
- curious_sb
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Text-To-Speech for Long Posts
Long Posts.
I mean no disrespects to anyone when I say this, it's just my day job really makes me loathe sitting at a computer longer than I have to.
Basically I have a cool tip for anyone else who "in their hearts" really want to read the long posts, but really cant be bothered to stare at a screen for that long.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the long posts are really great, I just find after an 8 hour shift in front of a terminal I really hate having to trawl through a massive post, to get all the juicy gossip.
I feel guilty saying that, because I am a Moderator, so its kind of my job to read all the posts. But I love hearing the stories you guys have, so heres what I do to get round it.
Download this cool (and FREE) text to speech engine from READPLEASE. Its really good, and unlike windows text to speech that can only take a few lines of text. This bad boy can take whole books if you wanted to. So you have more than enough space to copy and paste long posts into the speech engine, then click play, and you can do whatever you want while you are listening to the posts.
http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/
Please let me know what you think.
And sorry if I upset anyone, please keep posting the long stories, I love them, really.
EDIT, I have been using this tool for a while and know some issues and fixes so if anyone has tech issues getting it up and running, please PM me. It should be straightforward to install, but have been some known problems with Windows XP.
I mean no disrespects to anyone when I say this, it's just my day job really makes me loathe sitting at a computer longer than I have to.
Basically I have a cool tip for anyone else who "in their hearts" really want to read the long posts, but really cant be bothered to stare at a screen for that long.
I mean, don't get me wrong, the long posts are really great, I just find after an 8 hour shift in front of a terminal I really hate having to trawl through a massive post, to get all the juicy gossip.
I feel guilty saying that, because I am a Moderator, so its kind of my job to read all the posts. But I love hearing the stories you guys have, so heres what I do to get round it.
Download this cool (and FREE) text to speech engine from READPLEASE. Its really good, and unlike windows text to speech that can only take a few lines of text. This bad boy can take whole books if you wanted to. So you have more than enough space to copy and paste long posts into the speech engine, then click play, and you can do whatever you want while you are listening to the posts.
http://www.readplease.com/english/downloads/
Please let me know what you think.
And sorry if I upset anyone, please keep posting the long stories, I love them, really.
EDIT, I have been using this tool for a while and know some issues and fixes so if anyone has tech issues getting it up and running, please PM me. It should be straightforward to install, but have been some known problems with Windows XP.
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- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
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- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom
- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom
- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom
- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom
- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom
- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom
- curious_sb
- Retired Moderator
- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom