Text to Speech Software

text to speech

Text to speech software is a good helper to improve your tasks performance. Listening is far more easier than reading in term of acquiring information. You can also doing another activity while listening a story. With text to speech software you will literally hear your documents. Some text to speech software allows to save the voice as MP3. This great feature will improve your performance even more.

Sometimes the weakness of text to speech program is limited selection of voice. Female voice will be easier to hear for man than male voice and this also works vice versa. Therefore it is important to ensure that those software has feature to change the default voice.
Verbose is a text to speech program which will read aloud any text or save it as mp3.

After you have installed this text reading software you can assign a system wide hot key. Then whenever you want Verbose to read the text on your screen just push that key and the software will read it aloud.

Features

Reads text using text to speech technology.
Ability to save the speech as compressed mp3 files (eg. to listen to the recording on your ipod).
Ability to save as wav file and burn to CD/DVD with a direct link to ExpressBurn.
Read/Save all text or a selection of text.
System wide ‘hot’ keys can be selected so you can read the text from within any program.
Works within Internet Explorer, Word, Outlook and almost all other text based programs.
You can install new voices if you don’t like the default ones (any SAPI 4 or SAPI 5 voices can be used).
Intuitive and user friendly to make it as easy as possible to listen to text.
Edit wav/mp3 files with WavePad Audio Editor

Verbose can also save your text documents or emails to mp3 or wav for you to store them on your Pocket PC or MP3 player, such as an iPod, so you can listen to them on your way home.

A full list of features follow below but a quick way to try it out is to download and install now. You don’t need to purchase and it only takes a couple of minutes to complete the process (click here to install). After you have tested Verbose you can purchase a license (click here to purchase).