Powerpoint and Vocalization Software

[The_Doc_Man]

Has anyone ever come across a situation where you could take the text part of a Power Point presentation and selectively feed it to vocalization software?

Rather than speak my way through a presentation, I would like to use the system's ability to speak the words on its screen, but selectively, or perhaps as a low-level controlled event.

For example, a couple of lines of text fly in from the edge of the screen. What I would like to do is feed ONLY those lines of text to the vocalizer s/w before I allow the next text segment to fly in. But in some cases, the text that will come in is part of a diagram that I don't want vocalized.

Short of doing this with a microphone and creating .WAV or other types of sound files, has anyone seen a way to do this?

 

[HiTechCoach]

Has anyone ever come across a situation where you could take the text part of a Power Point presentation and selectively feed it to vocalization software?

Rather than speak my way through a presentation, I would like to use the system's ability to speak the words on its screen, but selectively, or perhaps as a low-level controlled event.

For example, a couple of lines of text fly in from the edge of the screen. What I would like to do is feed ONLY those lines of text to the vocalizer s/w before I allow the next text segment to fly in. But in some cases, the text that will come in is part of a diagram that I don't want vocalized.

Short of doing this with a microphone and creating .WAV or other types of sound files, has anyone seen a way to do this?

What you want is actually called text to speech.

A google on powerpoint text to speech will give you what you want.

Here is one of the results:

How to automate Excel Text to Speech in another Office program

Hope this helps ...

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Thanks, Coach! Sometimes the problem is knowing the right words to ask. I know what it was when I did this on DEC equipment 20 years ago, but times have changed since then.

That issue of nomenclature is why when I answer in the rest of the forum with a suggestion about what to search, I'm careful in the suggested phrases for that search.

 

[HiTechCoach]

Thanks, Coach! Sometimes the problem is knowing the right words to ask. I know what it was when I did this on DEC equipment 20 years ago, but times have changed since then.

That issue of nomenclature is why when I answer in the rest of the forum with a suggestion about what to search, I'm careful in the suggested phrases for that search.

I agree that using the correct nomenclature is very imporant.

I have actaully done some text to speech stuff with Access, Outlook, Word, Exel and web sites before. I just never have tried it with Powerpoint.

Hopefully I have pointed you down the correct path.

Good luck with your project.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

After playing with it for a while, I decided it was more trouble than it was worth. I had too little time and too much left to do to fit this in for version 1.0 - but there's always version 1.1 waiting in the wings...