The synthetic voice I used, made the writer sound like he had Tourette syndrome by the way he pronounced Jesus Christ. Another example was when I was reading a theological book. So you will hear an occasional “number, number” when the text is in strong denial. But it doesn’t know if “No” followed by a dot is the abbreviation of number or it is just the word “no” at the end of a sentence. For example, it tries to pronounce abbreviations verbosely. A computer doesn’t understand language like we do.
So what’s the downside? Text-to-speech has its limitations. If you don’t want to spend extra money on synthetic voices, you don’t have to, because GhostReader can also use the synthetic voices that come with your mac. There are 24 available languages, including Dutch, my native language. It is a mac application to convert text into audio, using synthetic speech. There are many good synthetic voices available from Infovox, including voices that sound happy, sad, shouty, whispering, mischievous, young or old. Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn longer texts into an audiobook? But it is not easy to pause a long text and continue the next day.
For example, Pages can read its text out loud. Of course my Mac comes with text-to-speech capability. Fortunately, many books are available as audiobooks. It takes forever for me to finish a book. But whenever I just want to read, I am still scanning for typo’s, punctuation errors and grammar mistakes. So I need to be very good in proofreading. As a graphic designer, I am often the last person to see a text before it is multiplied in a huge quantity. Let me start by the problem to be solved. I am Terry from Holland and I would like to do a review of GhostReader from ConvenienceWare.
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