HipTalk
- by Digital Dan
2.02 October 2005
HipTalk is a text to speech engine for the Palm handheld. Use your Palm handheld to speak out your memos, Todo lists and read out your ebooks. It will even speak out any text documents you put in the /Palm directory of your external memory card.
Features- Download free books and have your Palm read them to you.
- Have your Palm read out your notes whilst driving to work.
- Have your due To do tasks read out to you.
- Comes with an American English high quality 16khz voice. Further voices and languages will be made available.
- Reads out Palmdoc documents.
- Reads out plain text files stored in the Palm folder of the external memory card.
- Reads out Palm Memos.
- Speak clipboard contents from other applications.
- Modify word pronunciations.
- Programmers API for Hiptalk speech library.
- Adjust pitch, rate, pitch range and volume of the voice.
- Get the text to highlight and follow as HipTalk speaks.
- A "Free Type" feature allows you to type in text directly and have HipTalk speak it back to you.
- Externally configurable language independant modules:
* phonesets
* lexicon
* letter-to-sound-rules
* tokenizing
* part of speech tagging
* intonation and duration - The best support available -- email the author with suggestions, improvements and additions.
Latest Reviews
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Great product
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by a reviewer
from Bangalore, India
on Apr 5, 2006 - I have been using this software for about two years on my Palm T3 and find it very useful on the go. It will read almost anything, and anything it won't read is easy to convert into a format it can. One improvement I'd like to see is a variety of voices. Without meaning to cause offence, an English accent is always preferred.
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Almost perfect: clear voice, good performance
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by Forge Toro
from San Francisco
on Aug 5, 2005 - Love this software! Works very well on my Palm Tungsten C. Improvements: 1) in order to not spend time in the tedious search for where I was in a long document the program could remember where it last was and open to that spot. 2) In order to save battery life, the screen could have the option to go dark while still playing. The above minor issues are an indication of the quality of the software.
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Nice start, keep going!!
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by a reviewer
from California
on Oct 22, 2004 - Hip Talk is pretty good, all things considered. On a Tungsten|E, Hip Talk took 13 seconds to process a 17-word sentence and start speaking. Subsequent sentences had varying pauses; Hip Talk appears to be processing more text as it speaks what it's already done, so the pause depends on the length of the next sentence. A short sentence following a long sentence will have almost no pause. The voice is easy to understand if I use headphones. For listening to text documents on my way to work, Hip Talk is presently a bit frustrating (because of the pauses between sentences) but very promising. I look forward to subsequent versions. It should be mentioned that Hip Talk is distributed as a Nutshell self-installing archive. Hip Talk itself needs 6 megabytes, but to install it you have to have 12 megabytes free. The installer self-deletes when it is done.
Download Details
- File Information
- 2 min download @ 300Kb/s
- 4.2MB Installed
- Updated 2/06/2008
- Features
Color application- Minimum Requirements
- Requires 7 MB of Available RAM for 16khz voice
