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Softonic Rating:
Not bad:6/10
License:
Free
Added:
May 21, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
211 KB
Downloads:
69
Francesca Migliorini

“Listen to your written documents on the go”

by Francesca Migliorini

Text2Speech is a simple application that can read any text pasted or written into the special editor provided. There is just one voice available, 'Microsoft Sam', of which you can choose speed rate and volume.

It would have been such a useful program for many different purposes, if only it really worked properly. In fact, many people would be able to have their documents as MP3 files and listen to them while travelling, without having to carry printed papers which can be difficult to handle on the move. Even people with reading difficulties might have benefited from having a text to speech synthesizer.

Unfortunately, the voice in this application is neither natural nor clear. Its quality is the same of the artificial voice you could get on a PC in the late 80s. One would expect the general standard of synthesizers to have improved in nearly twenty years, but instead of that it's basically like having Robocop reading you a fairy tale. Not the most appealing setting I can think of.

If you can handle a rather metallic, ‘Microsoft Sam’ voice, try Text2Speech to have your written documents in vocal form and save them as either MP3 or Wave files, for a listening on the go.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for Text2Speech:

  • OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista
Pros
  • Can save a written doc in MP3 or Wave format
Cons
  • Robotic voice difficult to understand at times
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From the publisher of Text2Speech

Text2Speech is Text to Speech Synthesis application that converts text into immediate audible speech. Simply put this software will read text to you.

Features:

  • Playback at custom rate/volume
  • Export into wav file
  • Export into mp3 File
  • Highlighting of currently spoken word

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