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“I'm using TextAloud to study my online cdl training manual and any paperwork received in (on campus) class. I just scan the documents, study and save them for future use. Very useful as a single parent that needs to perform double duties while maintaining everyday household activities. My idea for searching for speech software came from Adobe Reader. The price was ridiculous on the Adobe Reader for what I needed for but the TextAloud price was reasonable, the interface was easy, and the selection of voices is very useful. Also I like that as it reads the document, TextAloud highlights the word and scrolls.”- Terry
“Our youngest son (8 years old) attends a school for children who are dyslexic. One of a variety of tools used at the school is TextAloud. The goal here is to have it assist the student when he or she needs a word pronounced or a portion of the text read to them. This software allows the student to work as independently as possible. Our 18 year old son is also dyslexic and is a college freshman. He also uses TextAloud in two ways. To assist him in reading textbooks and mp3 recordings of the textbooks so that he may listen to them at any time. He has an above average I.Q. but would never be able to keep up with all the reading a freshman does without your software. The Disabilities department at the school scans his textbooks and uses OCR software to turn the files into text. We then use TextAloud to do the rest. We expected him to have to struggle to keep up with History and English, but to our surprise he is excelling in those subjects. This would not have been possible without the aid of your software. Thanks Nextup!”- Dewey
“I purchased TextAloud as I do have a reading disability, a bit of dyslexia. This causes me to read very slowly and as a result I miss out on a lot. Now I find I do a lot of research on the net and using your product has enhanced my life and given me a way around things. I am very thankful for this. I use your product to change info into mp3 files a lot and listen to them while I am working as a way to study and prepare for upcoming events I am involved with.”- Eileen
“I use this program with a reading disability. I convert documents to MP3 and play them on my iPod. This allows me to listen to business documents while I am on the go.”- George
“TextAloud is fabulous! I have always wanted to read articles from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and other newspapers and periodicals and now I can on a daily basis. I have always been embarrassed that I have trouble reading. TextAloud has helped me come out of the closet about not being able to read very well. I am 65 years old. How I wish TextAloud had been around when I was in college. What a pleasure to have this fine tool along with Talking Books!”- Jane
“I thought you would like to know that I am dyslexic and I have used TextAloud to death, to help me complete my MBA (Master of Business Admin), which I am in my last semesters. I convert all my course notes and cases studies to text and listen to them via TextAloud. I could not have completed this course without the help of TextAloud and the AT&T Natural Voice of Audrey.”- Edward
“I was diagnosed with ADD as an adult. I've always had problems with my ability to keep my attention focused while reading, and couldn't read but a few pages at a time at most without losing concentration and daydreaming. I could never enjoy reading as a child and as such missed out on all the enjoyable childrens stories and novels. I still have problems focusing while reading, but have no problems listening to the stories while driving to and from work. I found TextAloud was perfect for catching up on all the classics I missed, making the drives through some of the worst traffic in the US more pleasurable. Also, using it to catch up on work news and updates from web pages while working is fantastic. One other use I found is that my cell phone is able to play MP3's and I can use the speech as an alarm to wake me or notify me of an appointment which is great for keeping me on time, as well as setting my laptop to use wav files as sound notification messages, which I find much more pleasing to the generic beeps.”- Dan
“As a disabled student, I have been assisted with learning, reading and access to Technical Education by an organization the helps many people with Reading difficulties. I hope that TextAloud, which I have used for many years, keeps going for a long time to come as it is wonderful software!!”- Steve

CJCotter Hello. I have a license for TextAloud 2 which I bought years ago. No free upgrades?

Feb 4 at 4:31am

Rick Ellis Hi CJ,

Major upgrades are not free, but previous TextAloud buyers can purchase at a discount from the regular $29.95 price. However, it's not as low as the discount price offered during a Bits promotion so you may want to go that route and just purchase TextAloud 3 that way. For upgrade purchases, send email to support@nextup.com and give some order details so we can assist you.

Thanks!

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 4 at 6:24am

W Ma I notice Nuance has Asian voices (i.e. Mandarin, Japanese) for scripts in TextAloud. What Chinese scripts would TextAloud be able to read? Characters? Pinyin? other? Or, what Japanese scripts?

Feb 4 at 12:43pm

Rick Ellis W Ma,

For Nuance Chinese voices, Sin-Ji and Ya-Ling both work with Traditional Chinese only. We think Mei-Ling will handle both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

For Japanese, Kyoko should handle Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana but we do not have much feedback on this voice as far as any problems related to specific scripts.

We don't think the voices work with Pinyin / romanized scripts.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 4 at 1:38pm

Stephen Dakos Is the "Julia" voice included in the $24.95 bundle the better 16KHz version, or is it the 8KHz version?

Feb 5 at 3:46pm

Zdenek Rotrekl Does the program work with 22 KHz voices (e.g. Ivona voice)?

Feb 6 at 12:40am

Zdenek Rotrekl Does the programme work with 22KHz voices?

Feb 6 at 1:03am

Goran Janevski When will TextAloud 4 come out?

Feb 6 at 3:39am

Rick Ellis Hi Stephen,

The AT&T Natural Voices Julia voice in the $24.95 TextAloud bundle is the 16kHz version. We do not offer the 8kHz version.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 4:02am

Rick Ellis Hi Zdeneck,

TextAloud 3 uses Sapi4/Sapi5 for the voice interface. I do not know if it will work with Ivona voices, but if it does, it will work in the free trial of TextAloud 3 (assuming you already have an Ivona voice). TextAloud 3 may work with some other voices, but we can only promise it will work with the voices we offer optional for purchase through NextUp. Some of these are 22kHz, but again, they are voices we offer.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 4:07am

Rick Ellis Hi Goran,

No announcement yet on a date for TextAloud 4. For those who purchase TextAloud 3 within 6 months prior to TextAloud 4, we will offer a free upgrade.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 4:12am

Al Prescott I go to do the Buy Now and I'm being charged the regular price! Is this a ripoff?

Feb 6 at 4:47am

Rick Ellis Hi Al,

Some orders went through at 50% off as intended, then I saw your post so we're currently looking into what happened and I'll post again when it's sorted out. If you want TextAloud I'll make sure you get it at the correct discounted price. Sorry for the problem and we appreciate your patience.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 6:45am

Rick Ellis Al,

If you visit the regular order page on our NextUp website shortly before visiting the Bits page, the cache in your web browser may cause it to be full price. To fix this, close all browser sessions, then go to the Bits page to purchase. If you have any more problems let me know or email support at nextup.com.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 7:21am

guest user why only bundle with engish voice? i would like a bundle with german voice.

Feb 6 at 7:40am

Retired Engineer Can TextAloud 3 track fragmented newspaper columns? Or do I have to untangle the columns myself and give TA3 a linear text stream?

Feb 6 at 8:23am

Rick Ellis Hi Guest,

For now the bundle is only with the Julia US English voice, but thanks for asking.

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 9:23am

Rick Ellis Hi Retired,

No, TextAloud does not track fragmented newspaper columns. I encourage you to go to our website and download the free trial if you want to see how it works with your texts.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 9:25am

guest user thx for your answer.

ok, two other questions?

1) any chance of that discount working for voices also? then i could get the bundle and add german voice for a reasonable price.

2) will there be another offer here in the future with free to choose voice(s) in a bundle?

Feb 6 at 9:58am

Retired Engineer If I order only the basic TA3, what sort of voice do I get? Is the reason "Julia" is bundled that TA3 won't work without it?

Feb 6 at 10:41am

Rick Ellis Guest,

We need to stick to the promotion at hand today, and I can't make any commitments as far as future promotions.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 12:00pm

Rick Ellis Retired,

When purchasing only TextAloud with no optional voices, its uses the voice(s) resident on your Windows system. On newer systems, for example, the MS Anna voice, or on older systems some combination if MS Mary, Mike or Sam.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 12:03pm

Stephen Warkentien I bought TextAloud 3 when it was last offered. May I buy just the voice at discount?

Feb 6 at 5:54pm

Rick Ellis Hi Stephen,

Next time we may consider tweaking the offers, but for now I think we are sticking to the promotion at hand. Thanks for asking though.

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 6 at 6:24pm

Zdenek Rotrekl I have bought the program, but I didn´t get the voice even though I paid for it. Otherwise I am very happy about the program

Feb 6 at 7:24pm

n n I was told in checkout that I would receive the key in an email, I have yet to receive it. Just wondering if I will get it today; don't know what to do. I am worried that I won't get it until it's too late and then will have to pay full price later to get it. What do I do?

Feb 7 at 12:04am

Stephen Dakos Greetings. Today, I purchased the TextAloud w/Julia bundle. The TextAloud program successfully installed and registered, but I ran into a problem when trying to download the "Julia" voice. Clicking on the link in the "TextAloud Delivery Information" e-mail to get "Julia" voice does not work. Rather, it redirects to a page to download Textaloud.exe, not the "Julia" voice file. Help please. Thank's

Feb 7 at 12:04am

Louis Gagnon I have the same problem. The link to download the Julie voice is not working. Please fix. Thank you.

Feb 7 at 12:23am

Paul T Same here, the link to download the Julia voice was incorrect. I emailed Support yesterday afternoon - haven't heard back yet, but I'm sure they have been busy. I fully expect that this will be taken care of, based on the responsiveness that others have posted about before. At least I (we) hope so, right?

Feb 7 at 4:55am

Rick Ellis To those who posted about problems with delivery, I will follow up to make sure you get the download and registration details. If you have not received an email within 2 hours of this post, please let me know. Not sure yet what the glitch might be, but also it;s always a good idea to check your spam filters. Anyone else having problems, just let me know.

Thanks!

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 7 at 5:19am

Norwel Gordon I tried yesterday to purchase Text Aloud 3 for several hours but kept getting a "Timed out" error message.

Same results trying to download trial version.

(I was using a very slow and unreliable internet connection from my home in the Bahamas which may have been a factor.)

Very discouraging!

Will the offer be available again soon?

Feb 7 at 5:53am

Rick Ellis Hi Norwel,

I sent you an email and we will do our best to help you purchase at the discount since you had connection problems.

Thanks,

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 7 at 6:42am

Norwel Gordon Thank you for your prompt response and kind offer to correct a problem that most likely was the fault of my ISP .

I would be happy to purchase TextAloud with Julia for $24.95

Norwel Gordon

Feb 7 at 7:12am

Paul T @Everyone, Rick is truly a stand-up guy! He has followed up with an email which corrected my problem in getting the Julia voice. Everything is fine now. I'm a very happy camper.

Thanks Rick! You rock.

Feb 7 at 8:52am

n n Don't know about others Rick, but I'm still waiting on registration and download. My PayPal got charged when I ordered, so I at least know the order (or at least the payment) went through. ;)

Feb 7 at 9:52am

Norwel Gordon I second Paul T's remarks. He provided the best customer support I have experienced in a very long time.

I wish my bank and the IRS had that kind of support people.

Feb 7 at 10:25am

Rick Ellis HI nn,

I emailed you at 8:43 am US Eastern this morning, and forwarded it again to you just now. Please reply to confirm you received, or if not, please contact me with your order details by email to support at nextup.com.

Thanks!

Rick

NextUp Technologies Vendor - Feb 7 at 11:37am

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