Doubt that speech synthesis can be good enough for e-books for the masses? Check out the way-cool offerings of Rhetorical Systems, a Scottish company.
Via a .wav file you can hear The TeleRead Valley Girl. Then you can totally have your own rad with Rhetorical’s demo page. Our friends in Europe will be pleased to know that the synthesis works in German, Spanish and Greek, not just English. May French be on the way soon!
By the way, you can also read this TeleBlog in Valley Girl text via a translation tool. Just type in teleblog.org, once you’re at Valley Girl URL, source of the image above.
(Rhetorical demo found via Lockergnome.)
