Speakonia

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Average User Rating:

4.1 4.1

out of 105 votes out of 105 votes

Quick Specs

Version:

1.3.5
Total Downloads:

981,535
Date Added:

Jul. 22, 2002
Price:

Free

File Size:

2.59MB
Downloads Last Week:

405
Platform:

Windows
Product ranking:

#1 in Voice Recognition Software

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

by Download.com staff / February 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.

Publisher's Description

From CFS-Technologies: 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.

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"thanx i will uose in julantoo meatz apri."

WildeL8y March 19, 2016 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2016-03-19 10:25:32 | By WildeL8y

Pros

thanx u r nice.

Cons

well there r no conz

Summary

julantoo will b so proowd of me apri will also.

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"Speakonia!"

sunshine7756 January 03, 2016 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2016-01-03 07:30:37 | By sunshine7756

Pros

Unfortunately, there are no pros

Cons

Virus Caused By program. Might try again

Summary

It gets 0.5 stars because of it

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"spodermen! gr8."

TheLouSpeaks May 22, 2015 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2015-05-22 10:20:14 | By TheLouSpeaks

Pros

sound lik a spoderman

Cons

nuthin at all

Summary

hav lots of sweg by downloading tis proggram

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"awful don't be fooled by fake high ratings"

abed.rahaman.7 January 30, 2015 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2015-01-30 13:19:08 | By abed.rahaman.7

Pros

none quality is sub average

Cons

download is full choke of malware and extra software that is wicked hard to remove, took me a good 2 hrs to clean my pc

Summary

don't bother with this trash

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"BEST PROGRAM EVER! *MS Sam review* My review: Epic job!"

JimMUGEN January 17, 2014 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2014-01-17 18:36:57 | By JimMUGEN

Pros

ALLLALLLALLALLALLISPRO *MS Sam review* My review: The whole program mworks great. You can fix spelling errors.

Cons

NONENONENONENONENONEISCON *MS Sam review* My review: Doesnt have many flaws... except for recommended registration

Summary

DA BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST! *MS Sam review* My review: Nice... nice. *I recommend it to people who like MS Sam.

Updated on Jan 17, 2014

EDIT: I am trying to download this program, but I had this program in my admin account. Great attempt! Not even an attempt!

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"One problem"

Sonicrush007 June 21, 2013 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2013-06-21 09:24:00 | By Sonicrush007

Pros

It is goo for getting Microsoft Sam, Mary, and Mike.

Cons

It wont register. I tried both ways but, it still wont register!!! This program cannot be updated due to the owner not updating the program and says it is unsupported.

Summary

Overall, I say this is pretty good.

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"Brilliant, Perfect & Elegantly Simple!"

Mik_EmpirePMLLC September 27, 2012 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2012-09-27 15:07:48 | By Mik_EmpirePMLLC

Pros

Everything you could hope for in a Free program to read you lengthy documents etc & more!

Cons

None what so ever!

Summary

I first came across this program in '08, Downloaded it again for my new computer & cant recommend it enough :D!!

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"speakonia very effective tool"

matrixref December 08, 2011 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2011-12-08 10:39:51 | By matrixref

Pros

easy to use asssists in dialogging while diction is taken. clearly spoken and reconizable words

Cons

not many found.

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"Easy to install"

amma5 September 30, 2011 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2011-09-30 14:44:15 | By amma5

Pros

Very little instruction is needed to use this product. I was looking for a simple point and click Text-to-Speech program for an adult who can't read. Speakonia filled that need

Cons

I would only read the first item on an on-line program and after that you had to copy and paste onto the Speakonia page.

Summary

I will continue to use this product. But I will also keep trying other Text-to-Speech programs to see if there is one that requires fewer steps for the non-reader. .

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"It's free, after all"

LongLiveTheKrakken August 28, 2011 / Version: Speakonia 1.3.5

2011-08-28 10:34:14 | By LongLiveTheKrakken

Pros

Low cost (free), installs quickly

Cons

Does not contain encoding (that I was able to determine) for reading PDFs or Word or equivalent.

Summary

I cannot recommend it for someone looking for an intuitive and flexible optin. Naturally, one might expect to have to pay for that sort of thing. However, if you have clean text files lying around, waiting to be read, or don't mind pulling content into clean text files or into the application itself via the sorcery of copy/paste, then this software is your magical mate. Common files (PDF, HTML, Open Office, MSWord standards on file inquiry are translated into the sort of ASCII text equivalent you might expect from a reader that is looking for plain text. It would be eminently useful if it could be expanded to either function as a shortcut/accelerator from webpages to allow users to have the page read to them. Obviously, given the amount of "bonus material" on webpages this might be challenging, unless the user's frame of focus could be captured, but that isn't likely full-proof either depending on the site. I don't have superb sound on my laptop, but the volume of the application was low-that might not be a common problem, since sound settings differ so widely in their calibration options.

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Full Specifications

General
Publisher	CFS-Technologies
Publisher web site	http://www.cfs-technologies.com
Release Date	July 22, 2002
Date Added	July 22, 2002
Version	1.3.5

Category
Category	Business Software
Subcategory	Voice Recognition Software

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

Download Information
File Size	2.59MB
File Name	speakoniasetup-1.0.exe

Popularity
Total Downloads	981,535
Downloads Last Week	405

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License Model	Free
Limitations	Not available
Price	Free

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