Opera Voice Feature : Talk to Your Web Browser
May 5th, 2006I came across this useful Opera web browser feature today. The Opera Voice feature allows the user to control the interface by talking and to have documents read aloud.
You can enable Opera Voice from “Tools” > “Preferences” > “Advanced” > “Voice” and install the voice libraries. Voice is currently offered in English and works on Windows 2000 and XP. A headset with a microphone is required to use Voice.
Highlighting any text, hold the Voice button, and saying “Opera speak” and Opera will read any selected text to you. For a list of voice commands, click on the voice button and say “Opera voice commands”. Now you can use voice commands to have an e-mail or other document read to you easily. You can custmomize Opera with Voice and change the way the browser handles voice input, and you can add your own voice commands in the same way that you can add keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. You can now make your own voice interactive pages a few additions to XHTML to allow Opera to speak and listen.
Now that is a cool Opera feature. I can now replace my other text to speech softwares which I use often when I want the talking computer to convert the text to speech and read typed text. It is also useful for the visually disabled internet users and provides web accessibility to them. Get Opera.
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i cant get the voice to work at all. when i click enable voice on the ctrl f12 it says you need to download sound libraries. so i did. but it still wouldnt let me activate voice. i did this about 10 times. how do i solve this problem. i find this opera program cool. so i would like it if you replied to me as soon as possible.
thanks
@brandon cromar: You’re probably, like I tried, installing it on a non Win XP computer, which will let you download but not activate.
If you’re on a Win XP machine go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Voice and activate it.
I must say I didn’t expect much, but I’ve even begun to make my ovn working voice commands for my favorite websites, so if I want Youtube I just holds Scroll Lock and say Opera Youtube :)
I also can not get the voice option to work and I have XP!
All Opera ever says is “Sorry, I don’t understand”.
I finally just gave up.
a couple of things i had to do before i got it to work:
turn on mic and turn up the volume
set confidence to 1 in advanced preferences
it works just fine now altho it took me about half an hour to figure it out. now i’m stuck with the problem of uninstalling it, since i don’t really need it. any help out there?
It says I need to download the libraries, I click OK but after a while the pop-up says “Download Failed”. Is there a way to stop this from happening? If not, is there a manual download for it?
me having the same problem, download failed
same problem:
“download failed”
same problem, “download failed”
it downloads 100% and when it looks finished, same thing every time “download failed”
Manual Download option PLEASE!