#speech (5 links)
"The British Library launches the ICA Talks from the 1980s online [...] The recordings feature a kaleidoscopic range of leading cultural figures debating the social and artistic currents of the 1980s". Salman Rushdie, Steve Reich, Richard Dawkins, Alan Moore...
- Festival cstr.ed.ac.uk
Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced.
- RoboBraille - Braille and Speech Through Email robobraille.org
RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.
- Readspeaker English first page readspeaker.fr
Readspeaker makes websites talk. It is easy to use and easy to implement. No backend reprogramming required and no plugins or software needed for the visitor.