Creating your own audio /listenings

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Creating your own audio /listenings

Samantha.esl

Creating your own audio /listenings

Hi!

Does anyone know of a free software or website where one can type a text and make it an audio file?
I �ve tried �loquendo � but you have to buy something and it cuts texts in half. So it �s no good..

Thank you!

22 Apr 2010

Olindalima ( F )

Hi Sam

Hope you are ok.
You can try the DEMO Loquendo, it �s free, though it has a maximum of 500 characters; it opens here:
http://tts.loquendo.com/ttsdemo/default.asp?page=id&voice=Kate

A good choice is
http://www.xtranormal.com/account/signin/
You just have to create an account and, you can make pauses in the text and sometimes, for children they are most welcome. If you only want the audio you don �t need to spare time with the animation, just type what you want. You can also have dialogues between two people.
Hope it helps.
linda

22 Apr 2010

Samantha.esl

Hi!

I �ve tried the DEMO from Loquendo that �s why I decided to ask here. The thing with that �free � demo is that you get a listening which is very bad. First it has a music as a background and you can read in the page that you would only get that off if you buy it.
Then, the speaker makes it really fast and awful to understand.
There are so many good things for free that I thought it was easy to find a good website to prepare my own listening since I don �t have a native like accent to make my own recordings! :-)

I �ll check the second..
Thanks!

22 Apr 2010

serene

Hi Samantha!

Have you tried this?

You could also check this thread.

22 Apr 2010

Pelletrine

Why dont you have a look at www.xtranormal.com ? - well, it is not only text transformed into listening: you can make small animated films : my students love it!! ... and: it �s free !

22 Apr 2010

vardaki