{"id":43313,"date":"2013-11-05T17:44:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=43313"},"modified":"2013-11-05T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:46:10","slug":"voxdox-net-a-free-text-to-speech-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/11\/05\/voxdox-net-a-free-text-to-speech-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Voxdox.net &#8212; a free text-to-speech app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxdox.net\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Voxdox.net<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; a free text-to-speech app; with thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/into-the-driver-s-seat\/p\/4010437568\/ocr-to-text-to-speech-around-the-corner-mguhlin-org?_tmc=qxiV1ZOaAiqWGwPGhnRRUco9eNTrXKg77txS284CGK8\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Jim Lerman for the Scoop<\/a> and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mguhlin.org\/2013\/10\/ocr-to-text-to-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Guhlin for the post on it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxdox.net\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Voxdox website<\/a><\/strong> <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voxdox is a new free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxdox.net\/tts.aspx\">text to speech<\/a> app, available now for <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/domainsicle-domain-name-search\/id595126243?ls=1&amp;mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.apache.cordova.Voxdox&amp;referrer=utm_source%3Dwebsite%26utm_medium%3Dtextlink\">Android<\/a> and Kindle.<\/li>\n<li>Voxdox will read aloud any form of text for you in your choice of human voice.<\/li>\n<li>Voxdox is a PDF reader and a PDF Translator. A smart PDF to Speech system converts your documents to quality speech. Import your PDF documents convert their text to voice.<\/li>\n<li>Voxdox is also an eBook reader that supports EPUB, PRC, MOBI and MBP format eBooks, and an audio book creator that can turn any kind of text to a talking book in just a few clicks.<\/li>\n<li>Voxdox can be used as a document scanner utilizing your device&#8217;s camera. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Just take a picture of any document in almost any language, translate it to a different language if you wish to do so, and convert its text to speech.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Voxdox gives you the choice &#8211; listen to your document or simply read it &#8211; all audio materials are also presented in text form.<\/li>\n<li>Converting text to voice has never been easier. Let your phone or tablet read aloud for you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I have not used this tool &#8212; but if it&#8217;s good, it would be a powerful tool for helping a lot of people out there! Especially those seeking an OCR &#8211;&gt; to Microsoft Word &#8211;&gt; to speech type of deal. And like it often goes with accessibility-related items, what started out as an accessibility-related item moves into the mainstream to help even more people out (more choice; more control of how I &#8220;take in&#8221;\/absorb the content).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voxdox.net &#8212; a free text-to-speech app; with thanks to Mr. Jim Lerman for the Scoop and to Miguel Guhlin for the post on it Excerpt from the Voxdox website (emphasis DSC): Voxdox is a new free text to speech app, available now for iOS, Android and Kindle. Voxdox will read aloud any form of text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,501,304,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-digital-audio","category-e-publishing-related-items-epub-and-more","category-e-readers","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43317,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43313\/revisions\/43317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}