Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices 1.71

• License:

  Free to try; $64.95 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  3.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  2.0 stars (out of 3 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  30,389

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 Server

• Limitations:

  Reading time-restricted

• Date Added:

  October 07, 2004

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Publisher's description of Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices

From TextToSpeechMP3.com:

Text to speech, text to mp3, batch convert text files to MP3s. AT&T natural voices (US, UK, German, French, or Spanish) provide you excellent voice. This application integrates with MS Word, WordPerfect, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer, lets you direct listen to text in documents, web pages, emails etc. Transfer MP3 to your player and enjoy story on the way. For language teachers, it can slide read aloud words from a text file for your pupils. The downloadable package has free voices inside. Welcome to access our web page to listen to natural voice demo.

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Editor's review of Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices

• 3.0 stars

• "Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices 1.71

Unremarkable, overpriced, but still basically capable--that's Text to Speech MP3. This run of the mill application reads text out loud and batch-converts text files to MP3 or WAV files. With the unattractive yet straightforward interface, you simply select text in any document and press Ctrl C to have it read it aloud. However, the program lacks controls for skipping to the next sentence or paragraph. The trial version reads only the first 400 characters of a given text, so we couldn't adequately gauge its conversion speed. Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices does exactly what it's supposed to, but it lacks extra features to separate it from the pack. In that light, the $64.95 price for the registered version seems hugely excessive.

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  Version: Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices 1.71

  "poor"

  by whit2121 on December 31, 2007

  Cons: needs alot of improvement

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• 2 stars

  Version: Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices 1.71

  "Needs a lot of improvement, didn't work for my needs."

  by Larvarin on April 27, 2006

  Pros: This program will read text that you paste in its text field, or which you simply put on the clipboard. It's easily accessible in the system tray, and you can add its icon to Internet Explorer and Word for quick use. You can choose from several voices, and also change the volume, rate (speed), and pitch. It can convert small text files into .wav and .mp3 files.

  Cons: The biggest annoyance is that the trial version will only translate short pieces of text at a time. If you highlight two Word pages, it will only read the first two paragraphs or so. If you order it to convert that 2-page-long document into a sound file, the sound file will also just have the beginning and no more. This makes this program rather useless for me, cause I'm looking for something that will read me large amounts of text while I'm doing something else in my room, and if I have to get up and feed it every paragraph separately when it's done reading the previous one, it's no use.

  The icon in Microsoft Word doesn't work. It says the macro can't be found or is disabled by macro security settings, even if I put the macro security settings to the lowest.

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