Friday, January 23, 2009

Online Text to Speech Translator

Special thanks to Bill Paris for today's entry. He shared this great website with me today.



The text to speech translator allows you to enter text into a text area and the translator will speak the text in your choice of languages. One of the nice features is that you can set the speed of the text and the text is spoken in a very lifelike voice (as opposed to most computer generated text to speech programs).



Currently, the languages available are: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Russian and Spanish. You can copy and paste the text from a document or website. The translator accepts Asian characters as well.



This is a great tool for the classroom. What a great addition to the Language or ESL classroom. In addition, this site has great application for students with special needs and those with visual impairments.




The translator can be found at:

http://www.text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/








Enjoy!

5 comments:

Brian Heineman said...

A great little utility that can be a great use for world language teachers. It is also just plain fun to play around with...

Michael said...

Some of the audio-visual technology that are being developed for different multimedia purposes.

speech translator

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Unknown said...

Many countries develop some great audio translator for social media's purpose. IT is be useful to helping out each other as well as watching, chatting with friends.