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Read Aloud is a program that will read text aloud. It has two main interfaces, one for entering Web addresses that the program will browse to and read the text on aloud, and another tab labeled Textpad where you can paste text into a window to be read out loud.
We tested both aspects of the program. The first Web page we tried Read Aloud on was a Blogger page. The page mostly comprised text, and the program did very well reading it. The default voice is "Microsoft Anna," a pleasing female voice. The voice is a little halting at times, but we could understand everything easily nonetheless. Next we tried a Web page for a local cafe. The program read it well. Read Aloud doesn't read the Alt tags of photos, which something we'd like to see added. We tried some more complex Web pages like Facebook and Twitter, and Read Aloud worked with them, but the busy layout of Facebook made the reading chaotic. We were impressed that program did a good job reading the Twitter page, however. The Textpad feature is handy and quite functional. We copied some text from an e-mail into it, and the program translated it into speech flawlessly.
Read Aloud is free. It doesn't have any Help file that we could find but is easy to figure out. It performs a unique service that would be a great benefit to users with vision problems or reading difficulties, but Read Aloud is fun for anyone to use.
Publisher's Description
From Vedasri:
Read Aloud is a free text to speech software that reads aloud text from various sources. Read Aloud provides Web page text reader, which no other text to speech software provides (for free). It has an in-built Web Text Extractor, a Raw File Mode, a Clipboard Watcher. The previous version has gained huge success, and now we are proudly releasing the next advanced version. You will find this software very useful.
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All versions:
2.2 starsout of 13 votes
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Current version:
1.6 starsout of 5 votes
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"DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!!"
Version: Read Aloud 3.0
Pros
Nothing its fake. Its Malware!
Cons
INFECTED MY ******* COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Windows Explorer crashed right after install."
Version: Read Aloud 3.0
Pros
The weather was great today.
Cons
Everything about this virus masquerading as a useful program.
Summary
Don't bother unless you want your computer to screech to a halt.
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"THIS "FREE" DOWNLOAD CONTAINS MALWARE!!!"
Version: Read Aloud 3.0
Pros
I do not know any pros because I stopped the download before it completed, it was downloading Malware!
Cons
THIS "FREE" DOWNLOAD CONTAINS MALWARE!!! Don't Bother
Summary
THIS "FREE" DOWNLOAD CONTAINS MALWARE!!!
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"Awesome program for writers!"
Version: Read Aloud 3.0
Pros
Reads aloud your manuscript so you can HEAR mistakes. Read along with the voice and catch punctuation errors fast and easy!
Cons
Only one voice comes with the free program.
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"False advertising. Useless"
Version: Read Aloud 3.0
Pros
None.
can adjust speed but you can do that in any word processing program.Cons
Crashes.
Not delivering the features they listed in the free version.
Does not use the voices come with software. Only Microsoft built in voice.Summary
Basically it is an extra click to use the already built in windows voice. It advertises that you can use the tool bars and read PDF and other formats in the free one. It is not until you instal when you find everything is available in the paid version. The free version allows you to read txt and rtf file using Microsoft voice.
It crashed a lot on WIN7 64 bit.
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