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Text To Speech Converter: Advantages

This document describes a text-to-speech converter software project for Windows that reads text files aloud. The software has a database of word pronunciations and can calculate pronunciations for unfamiliar words. It allows users, including the visually impaired, to listen to documents instead of reading them on screen. The software requires Windows XP or 7, SQL 2005, and Visual Studio 2008 to run and a minimum of an i3 processor, 5GB hard disk, and 1GB RAM. It has advantages like preventing eye strain and helping improve reading skills but has disadvantages like unnatural sound and inability to read symbols.

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Text To Speech Converter: Advantages

This document describes a text-to-speech converter software project for Windows that reads text files aloud. The software has a database of word pronunciations and can calculate pronunciations for unfamiliar words. It allows users, including the visually impaired, to listen to documents instead of reading them on screen. The software requires Windows XP or 7, SQL 2005, and Visual Studio 2008 to run and a minimum of an i3 processor, 5GB hard disk, and 1GB RAM. It has advantages like preventing eye strain and helping improve reading skills but has disadvantages like unnatural sound and inability to read symbols.

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TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERTER

This software project is windows based application that reads a text file to the
user. The bot reads a text file and associated pronunciations in its temporary
database. The bot then reads an entire word to the user. The pronunciations of
articles and basic words have been fed to the bot, the rest of the words and
complex ones are calculated and read accordingly. The bot an be effectively used
to help read the text document for the user so that the user does not constantly
need to look at the screen and read the entire document. Test to speech converter
is a recent software project that allows even the visually challenged to read and
understand various documents.

Features:

 Text input: Users are provided with a text box where they can enter the
required text in the software.
 Speech rate: Users can even alter the speech speed for application to read
out text by choosing the appropriate rate provided by the software.
 Play/Pause options: Users can play, pause and play from start the speech
whenever required.

Software Requirements:

 Windows Xp, Windows 7(ultimate, enterprise)


 Sql 2005
 Visual studio 2008

Hardware Components:

 Processor – i3
 Hard Disk – 5 GB
 Memory – 1GB RAM

Advantages:
 The system is helpful for persons having learning disabilities or
visually challenged.
 Prevents eye from strain, and user can sit and listen comfortably.
 Saves time especially while driving, exercising.
 Easy to use.
 Help improving spelling, reading, writing skills.

Disadvantages:

 Not natural sounding.


 Cannot read symbols.

Applications:

 Can be used for visually and learning disabled people.


 Can be used in learning pronunciations.
 Can be used as reminders in offices, houses.

Reference:
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=5754231&queryText%3DText+To+Speech
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=1520865&queryText%3DText+To+Speech
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=878372&queryText%3DText+To+Speech

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