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Speakonia

By CFS-Technologies Free Editors' Rating
CFS-Technologies no longer supports the Speakonia software, but still allows the download and use of it. Visit the CFS-Technologies site for a free registration key for Speakonia.

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Feb 27, 2009
Not a fictional Eastern European country from a Marx Brothers movie, Speakonia is actually a modest freeware utility that reads text out loud. Speakonia comes with about 20 voices (all with strong robotic accents) and lets you quickly change the reading speed and pitch. It's also little trouble to correct the pronunciation of words (proper names, for instance). Speakonia can save text in WAV files for playback when you're driving or jogging, but unfortunately it can't save sound files in the MP3 format, so you may need a third-party conversion utility. The program interface is clear and straightforward; you simply select text in any document and press Ctrl C to read it aloud. However, Speakonia lacks controls for skipping to the next sentence or paragraph. In spite of those drawbacks, its decent performance and free price make it a reasonable choice for the vision-impaired or people who'd rather do their reading with their ears than their eyes.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.3.5

General

Release November 8, 2008
Date Added July 22, 2002
Version 1.3.5

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows, Windows XP, Windows NT
Additional Requirements Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Popularity

Total Downloads 1,016,717
Downloads Last Week 131
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Developer's Description

Speakonia is a Text-To-Speech Program which is controlled through a graphical user interface (Similar to Notepad).
Speakonia reads aloud any given text. The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can have your mails read to you using the 'Clipboard Reading' feature.

To use the full potential of Speakonia a registration key is needed.
Please use the following key:
Name:Unlimited License
E-Mail:none@needed.com
Registration Code:SPK-174101-172083
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