Welcome to TextSpeech Pro, the most powerful, easy to use text-to-speech software on the market. Utilizing text-to-speech voices of exceptional quality, with TextSpeech Pro you can synthesize text-to-speech from any document format (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) using a variety of voices and languages, read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools, export the synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats in three modes (quick, normal and batch). Create and modify conversations, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) in a document using an advanced text-to-speech editor. Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses) on the fly. Extract text from scanned documents and convert it to speech or audio files. Create custom pronunciations using a universal correction system. Save the created documents with all specified voice settings and entities (voice type, pitch, speed, volume, bookmarks, conversations, pauses, word highlighting) for future use. Pause, resume or stop the speaking voice. Tune the speech output using standard XML tags. Use a fully featured document editor with many text processing features (text manipulation, spell checker, print and print preview, find and replace, go to line, customizable fonts, zoom capabilities, and document properties view). Mark copied text to be automatically transferred and converted to speech. Access previously used documents from a high-capacity document history. Utilize a rich and fully configurable user interface (UI) equipped with customizable window docks, toolbars, a multi-tabbed document interface and a layout-saving framework.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I downloaded this program. Got an error on install that instructed me to run the preflight script--an entirely unclear suggestion. I did find the script and ran it, which also caused an error. Anyhow, bear in mind that I was using the extremely crippled demo version. I did do a small dictation on it and it was totally buggy. I stopped at the second line for some inexplicable reason. Finally, there was no uninstaller (though there was an installer), and I had to remove everything manually. The feature list looks very promising. I would hate to discourage development on this product, but so far it doesn't look ready for prime time. Their web page make contact nearly impossible, and no forum was offered to hopefully give some feedback.