TextAloud is the leading text to speech program, available with exciting premium voices (including several languages) from ATT Natural Voices, Cepstral and NeoSpeech for the best in computer speech for your PC. TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio. Listen or your PC or create MP3 or WMA files for use on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players. A batch file converter lets you convert audio files quickly from any number of documents. A new improved interface with support for skins handles multiple documents with ease and includes voice, pitch and volume adjustments on the main window so you can customize voices while TextAloud is speaking. Change voices within a single document to simulate conversation or multiple speakers. You can open Word, PDF and HTML files directly in TextAloud, and there is also an Internet Explorer toolbar plugin to make reading web pages a breeze. A unique Proofread function helps make anything you write mistake free. With TextAloud you can listen immediately, or save to audio files to hear later at your convenience. 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. TextAlouds unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion can save your daily reading to audio files to download to your portable 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 has never been easier to keep up with the information you really need. Includes Firefox toolbar. Support for Natural Voices, Neospeech, Cepstral, Acapela BrightSpeech and Elan, and ScanSoft RealSpeak Voices.

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

Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

System Requirements: P200, 64MB RAM, 10MB Disk Space, Sound Card Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista