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Remember XtraNormal, the text-to-speech video website that brought us, among other clips, the glorious, profanity-laden HTC Evo vs iPhone 4 video? American car insurance company Geico used it to create their latest TV spot. Is it brilliant, lazy or both? More »
Near my iPad’s iBooks bookshelf sits a new vBookz bookshelf. It looks awfully similar, but it’s much better stocked: It has every public domain novel and text-to-speech tech to read them aloud. But a true audiobook text-to-speech is not. More »
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Since cancer left Roger Ebert without the means to speak, he’s been talking through a computer with a generic intonation. Today on Oprah, Ebert revealed his new voice by CereProc, resourcefully programmed from Ebert’s TV appearances and DVD commentaries. More »
Years of battling cancer have left film ubercritic Roger Ebert without a portion of his jaw, and consequentially, is voice. Esquire‘s superb profile outlined his efforts to regain a voice – his voice – but left us wondering: How will that work? More »
Intel’s Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review. More »
Everyone knows how dangerous it is to talk on a mobile phone while driving. Everyone knows that sending or reading text messages is even worse. Now there’s an app to make the whole process much safer by reading out your emails and text messages, so you can keep your eyes on the road. The catch? It’s a BlackBerry app… More »
Intel’s Reader for the visually impaired isn’t a concept; it goes on sale today. Using an Atom processor, 5-megapixel camera and Intel’s Linux-based Moblin OS, it turns book pages into digital text and MP3s…then reads aloud in a synthesised voice. More »
The sad truth is that you’ve never experienced Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra until you’ve had it read to you by the Kindle’s text-to-speech option. You’re welcome…
