Google Knol is testing an experimental text-to-speech feature on select articles.

The text-to-speech engine is pretty high quality. Check out this File Formats in Digital Photography Knol article speech.

Knol Sample Speech (mp3, 300K)

Compare this to Microsoft Sam, the default engine in Windows 2000 and XP.

Microsoft Sam sample speech (mp3, 200K)

Thanks GoogleSystem.

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