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NextUp Technologies TextAloud

NextUp 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. If you haven’t heard computer speech lately, you’ll be amazed at how human-like the latest voices really are.

Buy NextUp Technologies TextAloud - 20 EUR / 29.90 USD

Download demo (trial version):
NextUp Technologies TextAloud Demo

TextAloud 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

New in TextAloud version 2.0:
1. 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.
2. Advanced Article Font Controls: 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.
3.Voice/Pitch Change on main window: 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.
4. Options/Preferences menu has moved to Options Menu.
5.Support for opening more file types: 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).
6. Batch File Conversion: Available under File->Batch File Converter, this utility makes it simple to convert a large number of files containing text to audio files.
7.Support for voice changes within a single article
8.Bookmarks: We’ve added bookmark functionality on the Edit menu, allowing you to set bookmarks within articles, and move to them with menu entries.
9.Internet Explorer Plugin: This plugin created for Internet Explorer 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.
10.Minor Changes and Features this release contains lots of other minor changes and improvements like the changed of “Read” to “Speak” on all of the menus and buttons to clear up some confusion, TextAloud now writes info into the MP3 ID3 Tags etc.