Installed ok on win7 home prem x64, novelty kind of program, can be annoying after a while, some faults found, backspace on typewriter1 sound scheme reads as number 8, the return button on this scheme is breaking glass (very annoying ) punctuation IE £^&*()" etc is read as numbers, also still continues to read when playing games you have to manually turn it off when playing games, otherwise nice program but needs a serious amount of work to make it better.

Gary Moore  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+49)

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I suspect this might be helpful for people who are visually impaired, but MS text to speech (though not sure it does the read as you type), does pretty much the same.

As a general thing I don't think it's the height of coooool, and after being annoyed by it for 10 seconds, I'd probably uninstall it pronto.

Or you could put it on the kids' computer and it can drive you daft as it tries to read badly spelt words.

Hamtey  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+32)

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Another nice FREEWARE alternative is this:


http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/Free-NaturalReader.shtml





KEY FEATURES:


Natural Voices included:

· Personal version has a great selection of Natural sounding voices and languages.


Text to speech:

· It can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words with Natural sounding voices.


Convert to MP3:

· It can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.


Floating bar:

· Floating bar offers another option for you to listen to text without disturbing your reading on the screen.


Change reading voices and speed:

· A speaker menu and speed control slider is available.


Easy to use:

· Users without much computer knowledge can easily use it.


One-Click technology:

· You don’t have to copy and past text like other text-to-speech software. Just select any text and press one hot key.


Add-In Toolbar in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Internet Explore and firefox:

· We integrate convenient add-in toolbars into MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Internet Explore and Firefox to offer a simple way of reading text directly without having to copy and paste.


Create and modify Pronunciation:

· Personal version can change the pronunciation of words and allows you to easily add new abbreviations.


Convert large text file (up to 4 million letters) to audio file:

· The powerful audio output function allows you to convert a large text file containing up to 4 million letters to an audio file.


Create single large-size audio files (up to 3GB audio files):

· Personal version can convert a text file into a single audio file containing up to 3GB of information



Enjoy!!

Giovanni  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+29)

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Very nice little APP even though 30 $ seems for this to me a little bit steep!!

Not really helpful, but absolutely amusing, although it does not work in every language.

May be useful for KIDS or people who are blind or visually impaired!!!


A decent FREEWARE alternative (Standalone app, so no DLL's) may be this:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/DSpeech.shtml



· It supports the basic funtions of the TTS (Speak, Stop, Pause, Resume).
· DSpeech allows to save the voice files output as a Wav or Mp3 file
· It allows to change the speed and the volume of the voice.
· DSpeech allows to select quickly different voices and to merge them, in order to create dialogues.
· It allows to capture and reproduce the content of the ClipBoard.
· It's compatible with all modern vocal engines SAPI 5 compliant.


Cheers.

Giovanni  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+14)

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The idea is nice. Congrats!

However, two things:
1. When I press window minimize/maximize/close buttons in the window title my windows (XP Pro) hangs for 10-20 seconds, which makes application very difficult to use. May be it's a conflict with some third part application?
2. More sound themes needed, perhaps you could allow theme sharing on your web-site?

Volodymyr Frytskyy  –  14 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+12)

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