This software converts written text into spoken words and allows users to select from a variety of voices. It can read various types of content, including emails and web pages, and has the ability to save text as MP3 or WMA files for easy listening on portable devices. It also supports natural voices.
Listen to the software on your PC or create MP3 or WMA files to enjoy it on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players. With a batch file converter, you can quickly convert audio files from any number of documents. This added advantage makes the software unique from its competitors.
TextAloud has an enhanced interface with new features like support for skins that makes it easy to handle multiple documents. This software also includes voice, pitch, and volume adjustments on the main window, which allows you to customize voices while TextAloud is speaking. Change voices within a single document to simulate conversation or multiple speakers.
This software can open Word, PDF, and HTML files directly, and it also has an Internet Explorer toolbar plugin to make reading web pages a breeze. With the unique Proofread function, users can make sure that anything they write is mistake-free.
With TextAloud, you can listen immediately or save to audio files to hear later at your convenience. So instead of wasting valuable time reading on your computer, you're free to relax, stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural-sounding human voice. Furthermore, TextAloud's unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion feature can save your daily reading to audio files to download on your portable player. This way, you can listen to emails, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute.
TextAloud is easy to learn because it's user-friendly, from the help function to the VCR-style playback control. It has never been easier to keep up with the information you really need. Additionally, it includes Firefox toolbar and supports Natural Voices, Neospeech, Cepstral, Acapela BrightSpeech and Elan, and ScanSoft RealSpeak Voices. Use TextAloud to read and listen to your documents, and I assure you that you'll have a whole new experience.
Version 2.195: Minor bug fixes. Improved IE TTS Toolbar. .