Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices for Windows

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Download.com staffNovember 7, 2008

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.

Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: October 7, 2004

Latest update: November 7, 2008

Version: 1.71

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 Server

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Total Downloads: 49,765

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

1.5/5

2 User Votes

poor
whit2121December 31, 2007
Pros
Cons
needs alot of improvement
Summary
Needs a lot of improvement, didn't work for my needs.
LarvarinApril 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. <p>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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By TextToSpeechMP3.com

Make your computer read documents for you and convert the synthesized speech into MP3.