TextAloud MP3 Text to Speech Software Review Text Aloud 10% Off

TextAloud reads text from email, web pages, reports and more, aloud on your PC. TextAloud can also save your daily reading to MP3 or Windows Media files ready for playback on your iPod, PocketPC, or even on your TV with Tivo's Home Media Option. Be more productive or just be entertained wherever you go with our text reader.

Text Aloud Review

TextAloud MP3 converts any text into spoken words. Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural sounding human voice. Better still, leave your computer behind.

TextAloud MP3's unique Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily reading to MP3 audio files to download to your portable MP3 player.

TextAloud is the exciting new program that converts any text into spoken words and MP3 files.

It resides in your Windows tray, always ready to read aloud your text from email, web pages, and documents.

You can listen immediately, or save to .wav or MP3 files to hear later at your convenience. It's the world's most popular Text to Speech tool.

Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural sounding human voice.

Better still, leave your computer behind. TextAloud's unique Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily reading to MP3 audio files to download to your portable MP3 player.

Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute.

TextAloud is easy to learn so you can put it to work for you right away. Everything is user friendly, from the help function to the VCR style playback controls. It's never been easier to keep up with the information you really need.

Features

Sit back and relax while your PC reads to you

•		Save text to MP3 for portable audio players

•		Proofread your own writing

•		Listen to that report while you're on the treadmill

•		Find help for someone with a reading disability

•		Create messages for your answering machine

•		Reduce eye strain from too much reading

•		Listen to information while you work on something else

•		Take some reading along for your daily walk or run

•		Turn your iPod into a tax write-off

•		Listen to an eBook during your commute

•		Study English as a Second Language

•		Help a senior citizen or someone with low vision

•		Add some spice to your PowerPoint presentations

•		Find a great new tool to study for exams

•		Listen to text read in other languages

•		Amuse your kids by letting your PC read stories to them

•		Create audio files for computer games

•		Prepare for a big speech by hearing your words read aloud

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New Features

TextAloud 2.0 has a new look. The biggest difference is shown in Multi-Article Mode. Only a single article is shown at a time, and the a dropdown list that shows titles of all articles and allows article switching is at the top of the window. This makes the interface cleaner, and also corrects TextAloud 1.x problem that limited max number of articles to 20-40. Number of articles should be virtually unlimited.

There are also new toolbar options to allow you to change the size of the toolbar icons and choose whether you want the toolbar to have captions or not.

The new version of our screen reader software supports skins. Skins allow you to easily change the color scheme and look of the TextAloud window. Do View->Skins on the main menu. The download has 5 skins included, with links to download more.

Via Options->Article Font and Colors, you can now not only control font size, but font and window colors of both normal text and highlighted text.

You’ll notice that on the main window of our screen reader there is now a speed control slider visible (as well as pitch slider on voices that support it). This allows you to make adjustments to the currently selected voice even while speaking is underway.

These adjustments are also available on the Edit menu with shortcut keys.

TextAloud 1.X had several options displayed on the main menu, including the familiar Clipboard, Voices/Engines, File Options, and Misc. Options TABs on the TextAloud main window. This was ugly, and caused sight-impaired users a great deal of trouble. All of these settings have been moved off to Options->TextAloud Options, and Options, Voice and File Options.

TextAloud 1.x would only open .txt files from File->Open. TextAloud 2.0 can now directly open text files (.txt), Rich Text Files (.rtf), Microsoft Word Files (.doc), local HTML Files, and local PDF Files (.pdf).

Available under File->Batch File Converter, this utility makes it simple to convert a large number of files containing text to audio files.

When you set our screen reader to use SAPI5 Only under Voice and File Options, you are now able to change voices within a single text article. The right-click menu contains a new entry, Insert Voice Change.

To make proofreading documents and emails easier, we’ve created a new hotkey for proofreading. This can be set under Options->Hotkey Setup. Once created, you can be working in another program (for example an email you are composing or a document you are writing), you highlight a paragraph or two of text that you want to listen to, and then hit your proofread hotkey combination. A window will open, showing the text highlighted as it is spoken. You can adjust the voice as desired on this window. If you notice a mistake as the text is spoken, simply click anywhere on this window and speaking stops and the window closes, returning you to your document to make the correction. This offers a quicker, simpler way of proofreading without having to interact with TextAlouds main window.

We’ve added bookmark functionality on the Edit menu, allowing you to set bookmarks within articles, and move to them with menu entries.

We’ve created a plugin for Internet Explorer, to allow easier use of text from web pages. After installing TextAloud 2.0, you may need to reboot before this will be available. Within internet explorer, choose View->Toolbars->TextAloud for IE. This will cause a new toolbar to be displayed on the IE toolbar. You may need to drag this toolbar or resize it to get all the items to display. The toolbar contains 5 elements

Speaker Icon – speaks text selected within IE, or all text on a page if no text is highlighted
Stop – Stops current speaking
Copy – Copies text that is selected in IE as a new article into TextAloud for use within TextAloud.
Options – opens options related to the IE plugin
Voice Selection – Allows you to select voice for use when speaking from Internet Explorer

We get this request a lot. TextAloud 2.0 will allow you to specify the sample rate of TextAloud created wave files, IF you set TextAloud to use SAPI5 Only on the Voice Options TAB.

We’ve changed “Read” to “Speak” on all of the menus and buttons to clear up some confusion.

Added File->Save Article As to allow you to save an article out as a .txt file.

Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All are now available on the Edit menu as well as the right-click menu.

Undo/Redo available on the Edit menu.

Search and Search/Replace available on the edit menu.

On Options->TextAloud Options->Predefined Pauses, you can now specify longer pauses to be used between sentences and paragraphs if desired.

New option on Misc. Options to choose whether you want the screen reader to run in system tray, or to simply close when you click ‘X’.

On the voice edit under Options->Voice and File Options, when you select a voice to edit, there is now a volume slider to adjust volume on a given voice.

TextAloud now writes info into the MP3 ID3 Tags.

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