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River Past Talkative is a easy-to-use text-to-speech software. It speaks text or record the text to audio files, including MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG Vorbis, or audio-only AVI format.

It uses a text editor interface so it is easy to learn and use. It supports plain text and RTF files as input, or copy the text from the clipboard. The interface contains simple and readily accessible controls for voice, speaking speed, and volume.

For MP3, WAV, OGG, and AVI output, you have full control over audio codec, sample rate, channel, bits per sample, and bitrate settings. For WMA output, you can choose from a list of Windows Media profiles. Extremely fast and reliable. Useful for proofreading your own writing, or use it to listen to news, emails, articles and web pages.

With River Past MPEG-4 Booster Pack, you can output to M4A (MPEG-4 AAC audio), the format used by iTune and iPod.

No Adware or spyware. DX8,and Windows Media Format 9 runtime required. Compatible with Windows Vista.

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Talklets text to speech screen reader from Textic brings websites to life and increases accessibility by instantly converting ordinary web page text to high quality lifelike speech and allowing selected text to be saved to MP3 and moved to iPod for later listening. Install the toolbar, set up a simple account and you are up and running. Create your own instant 'Internet radio station' and convert RSS to talk or podcast instantly. A selection of voices and languages are optionally available but the standard service is available with either male or female UK voices. Talklets is available for individual use on any website visited or can easily be embedded into web pages to provide instant text reading accessibiliity for all visitors. On Internet Explorer, Talklets installs as a simple launcher toolbar but it will also operate on Firefox and Safari as a Favelet to initiate the talk service on any web page visited. The Talklets Toolbar once switched on provides simple point and play controls as well as 'play page content' controls. There are also useful visual controls to allow text highlight colour and text size to be adjusted to assist with reading difficulties such as colour blindness, low vision or dyslexia. The 'Lite' account is free and includes 30 minutes talk time per month. Subscribing to the service for unlimited talk time costs just 99p per month in six monthly units. This will allow reading and saving of content from any website visited.
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Audiobook Recorder is easy to use text to audiobook converting software. Also it can read any text using different human voices. The only text-to-speech software with unique 'Smart Pause' feature that dramatically improves reading quality.Features: - Aloud text reading with different voices and languages. - Converting text to audio files (*.WAV, *.MP3) with high speed. - 'Smart Pause' unique feature can detect situation when pause is required, but no punctuation mark exists between words (e.g. in Contents). - Adjustable speech parameters: speed and volume. - Opens MS Word (.DOC), hypertext (.HTML), plain (.TXT) and rich (.RTF) text files. - Opens big-sized files. - Speakable text size almost unlimited. - Free trial download. - Free technical support.
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