[MD] Fwd: Available books

[Case]

Marsha,

As an option, while waiting for whoever to do whatever, I recently ran
across text-to-speech software. ATT's Natural Voice has fairly realistic
voices, male and female, even ones with British accents. You can paste a
chapter from the book into the software and it will generate an MP3 file.
Computer voices lack some of the dramatic emphasis that humans interject
into their reading. But once you get used to it, it is like listening to
someone with a slightly off accent.

I realize this is not for everyone but not too long ago I listened to
Hawking's Cambridge Lectures which was read in Hawking's own speech
synthesized voice. That was kind of weird. These new voices have better
sound quality but as I said the affect it off.

Case



>Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:15:37 -0500 (EST)
>To: marshalz at charter.net
>From: audible at custhelp.com
>Reply-To: audible at custhelp.com
>Subject: Available books [Incident: -----------]
>
>Recently, you requested personal assistance via our on-line support 
>center. Below is our response and a summary of your request.
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>
>  Subject
>Available books
>
>  Discussion Thread
>  Response (Mauro B.)02/04/2007 07:15 PM
>Dear Marsha,
>
>Thank you for contacting Audible.com.
>
>I understand that you had some questions concerning the title Lila 
>and would like to know if it is currently available on our web site. 
>unfortunately, we are still working with the author's respective 
>publisher and trying to obtain the distribution rights for the book. 
>I am sorry but there is no exact date as to when we might have this 
>book available in a downloadable format. I apologize for the 
>inconvenience that this may have caused. There will be an 
>announcement made on the web site when the book is available. Thank 
>you for your patience and understanding in this matter. Have a nice day!
>
>If you need further assistance, please respond to this email. For 
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