In order to reduce eyestrain when on the computer, I use the basic OSX (10.6.8) Text to Speech (System Prefs -> Speech -> Text to Speech) software for the computer to read out long-form articles found online. This works great! Except....sometimes when I ask "Alex" to read out to me it will skip or garble words from the highlighted article, usually one word per sentence or after
x number of words. Why?
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posted by carabiner
on Mar 11, 2013 -
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What technology and software I should look at inorder to be able to record interviews on Skype on to my hard disk (MacBook Pro) and then be able to manipulate the recording easily in order to type out a transcript? Or, preferably , find reliable speech recognition software that will automatically produce a written transcript I can enter into my word processing program (Open Office.) ? I'm willing to change up software and able to spend no more than $100 to make this work. Is it possible?
posted by NorthCoastCafe
on Dec 18, 2012 -
8 answers
Creating an index of first lines, from a group of many poems, each stored in a seperate .txt file. Are there any applications or scripts that would help me to do that?
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posted by dylan_k
on Dec 8, 2012 -
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I would like to create a font using someone's handwriting and am looking for a good software with which to do this. I'm not an expert in this, so it would have to have a small learning curve, unless it is really worth it for me to spend time learning so I can get reasonable results.
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posted by sciencegeek
on Oct 19, 2012 -
6 answers
WordPad is a bare-bones RTF editor. What app will approximate WordPad on an Android? Bonus points if the editor also syncs itself between Android and Windows.
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posted by foursentences
on Dec 24, 2011 -
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I need to animate text (short quotes, one or two sentences each) for a video presentation. Are there any (free or cheap) softwares other than Keynote/Powerpoint that do this?
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posted by ddaavviidd
on Apr 7, 2011 -
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Suggestions for text analysis tools, please! Following a short discussion in the Metatalk infodump thread with
cortex and
iamkimiam, I realized that we'd appreciate suggestions for tools that can analyze text corpora and text files. Thanks!
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posted by carter
on Dec 12, 2010 -
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I really like the idea of text-based programs like WriteRoom (Mac) or DarkRoom (Windows). Are there similar applications for other purposes?
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posted by jfricke
on Dec 1, 2009 -
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I need some help repairing some text files. I don't really understand regular expressions and so on enough.
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posted by yesno
on Nov 2, 2009 -
14 answers
Need a Ultra Edit Windows Free Alternative for a Not For Profit Organization. Meaning "free for non-commercial use" doesn't apply to us. Thanks!
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posted by bleucube
on Nov 6, 2008 -
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I am looking for the best of the best OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software out in the market that can translate images ( through scanner) of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into editable text.
posted by omaralarifi
on Sep 14, 2008 -
9 answers
Can anyone recommend some easy HTML editing and uploading tools for a mac? (ftp, text editor)
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posted by handee
on Jun 14, 2007 -
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Are there any software packages or toolkits (preferably open source) available that allow me to automatically extract graphical content (such as pictures, diagrams, graphs, etc.) from batches of PDFs?
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posted by elbaso
on May 9, 2007 -
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Is there an easy and free way to do text-to-mp3 conversion on a Windows system? How about the other way 'round?
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posted by monju_bosatsu
on Jan 12, 2005 -
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I maintain lists of to-dos and other information in a lot of text files. Currently I've been having to shuttle them between work and home via my FTP server, which is about a five step process and rather annoying, espcially when Dreamhost is slow. What is an easier way to synchronize text files between two Windows XP machines that are NOT on the same LAN... with a big emphasis on EASY, preferably two steps or less?
posted by hansbleep
on Dec 31, 2004 -
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Are there any text editors for the Mac that will let me write in full-screen mode--i.e., with, say, yellow text on a black background, and no menu bar, dock, desktop, and so on?
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posted by josh
on Oct 14, 2004 -
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I need to convert a scanned pdf to searchable text, without printing it out and scanning it back in using OCR. Also, I'd like a cheap or free solution since I'm not likely to use it
often ever again.
posted by nomis
on May 6, 2004 -
17 answers
OS X coders, what is your
freeware text editor of choice? Something with syntax highlighting, line numbers, auto-indent, a versatile local open/save dialog, and
[optional] FTP Open/Save. Right now I use SubEthaEdit and jEdit and like them both, but I'd like to see what other software I may have missed in Googling.
posted by brownpau
on Mar 24, 2004 -
19 answers
