Translate & Speak

[isladogs]

Hello,

Has anyone managed to fully utilize all the additional text-to-speech voices available in Windows? It seems like a great way to extend the functionality of these projects, but compatibility with certain languages and voices seems to be a common challenge. If anyone has insights or solutions for this, it would be great.

The combination of features like text-to-speech, reverse translation, and character count is truly fascinating.

Yes. Read my article and download my app to see how you can use all the different voices available in Windows. A registry tweak is needed for those not natively available

 

[Pat Hartman]

Colin, have you done any work with speech to text in Access? I have a client with an application that could make data entry easier for them if they could open a form and just read Item numbers, quantities and costs into a subform. The data does not come in any format that can be automatically input.

 

[isladogs]

Colin, have you done any work with speech to text in Access? I have a client with an application that could make data entry easier for them if they could open a form and just read Item numbers, quantities and costs into a subform. The data does not come in any format that can be automatically input.

Hi Pat
Yes I have.
Although its not officially supported, it is possible to use speech to text in Access but its only practical on long text fields.
For more info, see my article

Dictation in Access

Although not officially supported, it is possible to use speech to text (dictation) to input data in Access. This article explains how to do so.

isladogs.co.uk

I also demonstrated its use in a video:

 

[Gasman]

Hello,

Has anyone managed to fully utilize all the additional text-to-speech voices available in Windows? It seems like a great way to extend the functionality of these projects, but compatibility with certain languages and voices seems to be a common challenge. If anyone has insights or solutions for this, it would be great.

The combination of features like text-to-speech, reverse translation, and character count is truly fascinating.

Seriously, unless you have blind or nearly blind users, I would give it a miss.
There is one person on utterAccess that loves graphics and audio. :-(
Pretty does not make perfect. :-(