If you have a lengthy amount of text to read or review that you don’t have time to actually read, another alternative is to convert that text into an audio track. This is kind of like making an audiobook out of any text block, and it can be as long or as short as you need it to be. Of course it sounds complex to convert text into audio files, but it’s not at all, Mac OS X makes it extremely simple. In a few moments, you’ll have a fresh MP3 audio file from the origin document, added to iTunes that you can then sync to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Sounds awesome right? It is, here’s how to use it in all versions of OS X.
Record books, articles,web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format. So that you can listen while you commute or exercise. It is also a great way to check your writing for grammar and spelling errors.
NaturalReader:
This NaturalReader is a free TTS program that allows you to read aloud any text. Here it is the free version of the software converts Microsoft Word files, webpages, PDF files, and emails into spoken words. It includes Microsoft Voices and allows you to change voices and adjust the reading speed. Simply select any text and press one hotkey to have NaturalReader read the text to you. There are also paid versions that offer more features and more available voices.
Balabolka:
Balabolka is Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All Computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. In this a Screen text can be saved as WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can be read the clipboard content, veiw the text from AZW, AZW3, CHM, Djvu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, Customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.
Panopreter Plus:
Panopreter Plus ready any text aloud and reads files in formats of txt, rtf, doc, pdf and web pages. It also coverts text into wav and MP3 audio files, so you can later listen to vocal speech with portable mp3 player device. Furthermore, it reads text copied to clipboard from any other software window. It supports many languages and voices.
Ultra Hal TTS Reader:
Here Ultra Hal TTS Reader is a program that will read text out loud in one of its many high quality voices. The free version includes many high quality computerized voices and reads text files out loud, as well as instant messages, standard Windows dialogs, and text from the clipboard, which allows the program to read text from webpages and emails. Here You can also use Ultra HAL TTS Reader to convert a document into a WAV audio file, which can be burned to a CD or converted to an MP3 file.
DS Speech:
DS Speech is a TTS ( Text To Speech ) program with functionality of ASR ( Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to read aloud the written text and choose the sentence to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user. It is specially designed to quickly and directly provide the functions and improved practical usefulness that are requested by this kind of program.
Verbose Text To Speech:
Verbose is a text-to-speech application. It is what is often referred to as a system text reader. It uses Microsoft Sam, a built-in speech system in Windows, for reading out loud. The program reads text from different sources. First, there is a text field where you can write or paste text from other applications. If you write anything there and click on "Read aloud", a playback window will come up and you will hear Sam reading your text, along with a visual representation of the sound levels.
Natural Voice Text To Speech Reader:
Free Natural Voice Text to Speech Reader is text to speech application that uses Microsoft Standard Voices.
Transfer text to the main window or open text based files, MS Word documents, Adobe PDF files, Rich Text files, weather reports, emails, news, messages, web pages, reports, etc. and the application will read them aloud for the user. Once text, voice quality and reading speed are adjusted, the speech result can be saved as WAV or MP3 audio file and later on be recorded (burned) on an audio CD.The standard version uses Microsoft Voices. Enterprise version supports natural voice.
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