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Speech Technology / Re: Trying Hal text reader - some problems need solving.
« on: February 01, 2014, 08:01:29 pm »
Update: I did a lot of searching for these programs. None do everything that the old Natural Voice reader would do that I need. However "balabolka" and "SimpleTTSreader" both can restart reading text from the clipboard if new text or the exact same text is copied into the clipboard. So the only thing these two programs can not do that Natural Voice Reader could do is using "ctrl +F7" to stop the playback at any time while any other application is highlighted/active. In my application a popup appears and the text on the popup is automatically read since there is a command inside the form to put the text into the clipboard. So if I click the popup to skip to the next popup it will automatically start reading the new popup's text rather than my having to hear all of the prior popup's text. I can also submit a single space to the clipboard from my application to stop the playback of the prior text in the clipboard.