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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: March 31, 2008
- Total Downloads: 63,867
- Downloads last week: 60
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 12 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Not so much smart as competent, SmartRead reads back text using standard Microsoft speech engines. It supports English and Chinese and lets you save text in audio files to play back when driving or jogging. Unfortunately, it only supports WAV files, so you may need a third-party conversion utility to save clips in compressed formats. The unattractive and inconvenient interface requires you to copy and paste text into the program window to have it read. Given its interface issues and modest functionality, we don't see SmartRead trumping its freeware competition.Publisher's description
From SmartySoft Studio :SmartRead can translate text to speech (TTS technology ) to read out clearly. It is very easy to use, needn't have any speech knowledge, check the article for you, read long text, have very obvious advantages. Repair function, can repair when engine has some problem, especially to XP users. Supports Windows Vista. Version 0.80 adds MP3, and SWF(flash) file conversion.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.80 adds MP3, and SWF(flash) file conversion.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: SmartRead 0.80
Pros: Surprising that its s/w compatibility is good except for one reason that at time of installation it will ask for permission several times and a location to extract files twice !! Its so simple and contains all; that is required to a user. Plus, its free !!! It has an option to download additional voices which may not work on new o/s.
Cons: Its development is in initial stage. After installation, sam, mike and mary like voices may not work on new o/s.
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Version: SmartRead 0.80
Pros: It's very good program and very easy to use and install.
Cons: some english word is not clear. it did not work after installed in some computer. The new version of WINWORD cannot read.
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Version: SmartRead 0.80
Pros: Tried several times but voice not found
Cons: Not any star to this program
Summary: No thaks not required
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