TextAloud MP3 - Take any text portable as audio
Imagine if you could read while you drive, exercise, walk around the block, or working in the yard. How much more could you learn? How much more information could you absorb? How much more money could you earn?
TextAloud opens a new world for PortableVoicers. Buying AudioBooks is OK, and Talk Radio can be fun, but TextAloud MP3 lets you create your own audio content using your computer and any text.
TextAloud opens a new world for PortableVoicers. Buying AudioBooks is OK, and Talk Radio can be fun, but TextAloud MP3 lets you create your own audio content using your computer and any text.
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TextAloud uses Voice Synthesis to read any text aloud on your PC, or to an MP3 file you can download to your MP3 player or email to friends.
With over 10 different American English voices, plus 7 other languages, voice synthesis has come a long way and is finally good enough that you can enjoy listening.
How TextAloud changed my life ;)
Sounds like hype, and maybe it is a little, but here is how I use TextAloud and how it has changed how I work and learn.
With TextAloud in Multi-article mode, every evening I review my email and several news web sites I frequent. Each day, there will be 30 or 40 things from newsletters or the days news that I would like more details on. These might be business items to keep in touch with the stock market, technology news related to my job, or some just for fun things on health, my favorite basketball teams, or the jokes my friends send.
Using my mouse within the email or web page, I highlight the text, hit control-C to copy it to the windows clipboard, and TextAloud automatically creates a new article for that story. I'll even occassionally grab several chapters from a book from Project Guttenberg to listen to as well. Then, I hit the Read To File button in TextAloud, and it reads the items, each one to its own MP3 file.
In the morning, I plug in my Nomad Portable Player, download the MP3's, then I'm set for the day. Time I would previously thought was "idle brain time" like driving to work, walking the dog, or mowing the yard, I now use to catch up on my reading. This means that I'm saving time, being more efficient, and doing something truly useful with time that was otherwise wasted.
Anyway, that is why I like this program so much. You'll have to try it yourself to see if my headline above was hype. You can download it for a free trial, and I think you'll love it.
With TextAloud in Multi-article mode, every evening I review my email and several news web sites I frequent. Each day, there will be 30 or 40 things from newsletters or the days news that I would like more details on. These might be business items to keep in touch with the stock market, technology news related to my job, or some just for fun things on health, my favorite basketball teams, or the jokes my friends send.
Using my mouse within the email or web page, I highlight the text, hit control-C to copy it to the windows clipboard, and TextAloud automatically creates a new article for that story. I'll even occassionally grab several chapters from a book from Project Guttenberg to listen to as well. Then, I hit the Read To File button in TextAloud, and it reads the items, each one to its own MP3 file.
In the morning, I plug in my Nomad Portable Player, download the MP3's, then I'm set for the day. Time I would previously thought was "idle brain time" like driving to work, walking the dog, or mowing the yard, I now use to catch up on my reading. This means that I'm saving time, being more efficient, and doing something truly useful with time that was otherwise wasted.
Anyway, that is why I like this program so much. You'll have to try it yourself to see if my headline above was hype. You can download it for a free trial, and I think you'll love it.
TextAloud MP3
Convert any text to an MP3 file and take it with you. Create audio files from email, web pages, text documents, even ebooks, and then listen anywhere and anytime.
