Use text to speech to read the hardest poem in the English language

Some years ago I came across one of the hardest poems in the English language, and since I've been playing with the text-to-speech engine I decided to let the text-to-speech deal with the poem. It seemed to do very well and tought me how to pronounce some words I had never heard of as well. … Continue reading Use text to speech to read the hardest poem in the English language

Text to speech alarm clock with powershell

Thanks to a blog by Jefferey Hicks about an alarm clock in powershell using the PC speaker, I thought it would be nice to tweak that script a little bit and use Microsoft's text to speech engine so you can use the alarm and let a voice wake you through your headphones or speakers. To … Continue reading Text to speech alarm clock with powershell