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Zabaware Forums => Speech Technology => Topic started by: echoman on September 30, 2005, 04:24:19 pm

Title: Cannot seem to do pauses
Post by: echoman on September 30, 2005, 04:24:19 pm

Hello,

In Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader I cannot seem to do any pauses so that the voice stop for a few seconds between sections or for how ever long I want. This seems an obvious thing to want to be able to do. It must be possible. Does anyone know how?

Many thanks

echo.

Title: Cannot seem to do pauses
Post by: Medeksza on September 30, 2005, 05:33:23 pm

If you hit the stop button, it will stop reading and highlight the remaining unread section. Then you can simply hit "read selection" to continue where you have left off.

Title: Cannot seem to do pauses
Post by: echoman on October 01, 2005, 02:33:16 am

Hello.

Yes that is one way but what I wanted to do was put pauses within the text itself so that they can be recorded as a WAV file (I need 10 to 20 second pauses at times). I tried adding lots of full stops, putting big breaks between paragraphs etc but the reader always reads straight on with out stoping. I love the program besides this.
I have ordered the Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader with NeoSpeach. Does this have this option?

Many thanks.

echo

Title: Cannot seem to do pauses
Post by: echoman on October 02, 2005, 04:56:56 pm

Hello,

I have descided this really is not much of a problem as I can create the appropiate pauses by producing seperate wav files of pauses, then burning what I need onto a cd. Thanks for the help. It is a very useful program. Thankyou.

echo

Title: Cannot seem to do pauses
Post by: Duskrider on October 02, 2005, 06:29:09 pm

Echo,
What a simple ingenious idea.
Neat!!
I like it.

[;)]