Hi George
On 23 December 2015 at 13:53, gmat2000 <
forz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been looking into text to Speech applications and ran across
> Powertalk. This looks exactly like what I am looking for but may be missing
> one component. I am a foreign language teacher
> attempting to make powerpoints where the text is read back in Spanish. From
> what I have read it seems like powertalk will only do English, am I corrrect
> in that assumption?
PowerTalk pretty much just works in any language as long as you have
set up you PC to have an appropriate Text To Speech voice, Spanish in
your case. You'll have to write Spanish text on your slides of course
so will also want to ensure you can enter the accented characters
which you can do with a Spanish keyboard (real or virtual) or using
the "Alt Gr" key on the English keyboard
Depending on your version of Windows you should be able to install a
free "Language" pack providing all you need. You can also get 3rd
party voices.
Make sure you select the Spanish voice in the Windows Settings (in win
10 you'll want Helena or Sabina).
Steve Lee
OpenDirective
http://opendirective.com
> Right now power point just lets me
> do a narration which is not what I am looking for, I need a slide by slide
> sound component. Thanks for any imput. George m
I don't really understand. You can always record sound in PowerPoint
and add it to your slides to play. You could use animations to
synchronise the speech.
This approach will let you have Spanish speech for English text etc.
and does not involve PowerTalk at all.
I hope that helps
Steve