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Our daily lives are filled with reading! You read your email, you read web pages, you read critically important documents as part of your job - you're even reading right now! Imagine how much more you could get done if you free up your eyes to do other work, while still receiving all of the information from your reading material. What am I talking about? I'm talking about LISTENING to text using TextAloud 3.0, the world's most popular text to speech utility!

TextAloud 3.0 reads your email, websites, reports, and more, aloud. You can also use TextAloud 3.0 to save your daily reading material to audio files in MP3 or Windows Media format, which you can then play back on your iPod, PocketPC, even your television using Tivo! And while you're listening to all of this text, you could be doing something else -- cleaning, exercising, cooking, you name it! It's also great for proofreading your writing. You may have missed the same word over and over while reading, but when you hear it mispronounced, you'll know for sure!

I know what you're thinking -- robot voices will be the death of you. Not with TextAloud 3.0! TextAloud 3.0 is compatible with a huge party of lifelike, sonorous, and entertaining 3rd-party voices that will make it a pleasure to listen to even the driest material!

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Have your email, websites, reports, documents and more automatically read to you.
Gain more free time to boost your productivity.
Perform a variety of other tasks without missing the content of important messages and documents.
Convert written text to audio files for playback on portable devices.
Choose from a variety of lifelike reading voices.
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After you make a purchase of this BitsDuJour discount promotion, TextAloud 3 may be used indefinitely.
TextAloud 3 is licensed for family use, so everyone in a household can use the software.
Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free up to the next major version.
Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
30 days return policy.
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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

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SoftCollector I installed the software, but it seems that lifelike voices have to be paid separately, so it is difficult to judge how good (or ultimately – expensive) the bundle would be in the end.

Mar 15 at 11:10pm

disenchanted It seems that every time a program like this is offered, people are always asking about voices.

I have heard that there are programs and/or software development kits that lets anyone create their own voices to use with programs like Textaloud.

So if you have any family or friends with a great speaking voice then you might be able to create your own voices.

I'm sure that a TTS software business like yours probably knows of most every possible do-it-yourself type TTS/SAPI creation software application or SDK in existence.

Questions:

1. Can you recommend any do-it-yourself voice creation applications? Free or paid.

2. Can you offer any insight into such programs?

3. Are they easy to use or would it end up being a project that requires a lot of time to complete a working TTS voice?
(meaning it's more economical to just buy voices)

Thanks in advance for your time.

Mar 16 at 2:23am

Software Guy I often convert books and articles to document format then to speech. And voices remain a major problem. Personally I recommend Ivona voices and they have family pack licenses but they are expensive. These are the most natural sounding voices, particularly for extended listening. Check them here http://www.ivona.com/us/voices/ Other more computer sounding voices get difficult to take, especially for extended listening. So the ivona voices are a good investment if you go this route
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The advantagesof TTS are many - you can listen to books and articles while doing other tasks or driving to work.. And as you may already know the selection on audible is somewhat limited. However there are a good number of classics available in the public domain. But if you want to listen to those specialized non-fiction texts, then likely you will need to scan, convert to doc by OCR, edit in word to ebook format then convert to speech. This is a complex set of tasks and is time consuming. Only one commercial set up is available and that is the plustek v100 scanner system. Another alternative is theplustek opticbook series of special book scanners which use special software to image and flip pages.
The opticbook series makes book scanning easy - but it is time consuming. The software includes a special version of abbyy finereader - recommended for OCR. From the document text file, the book is lightly edited for voice (page headers are removed) and converted to speech by a reader like textaloud. The choice of voice is critical in this step. The resulting audio files can them be listened todirectly (an area where textaloud excels) or saved for use on your mp3/ipod.
If you have a visually impaired family member, TTS software is critical.
I do use TextAloud along with several other TTS programs and can recommend it. When I had questions in the past the developer was top notch in responses. And the license is for family so that you can install on all of your computers.
This type of program is very useful for those busy people that simply do not have the available time to sit and read. It allows you to stay up on articles and books in your field of expertise that you would not have the time to read. And it is just great for entertainment - get one of the many free books online and listen on your mp3 player.

Mar 16 at 5:31am

Warren Russell It's showing me a 1% discount with a price of $29.65? The 1% discount is also shown for BrowseEmAll. Also the expiration counter is blank.

Mar 18 at 1:40am

Diego SEO Hi,

No discount is applied at fastspring (using PayPal or Credit card).

TextAloud: $29.95

Mar 18 at 4:42am

Roger Thomasson @ Diego SEO, Warren Russell

The discount is showing up fine for me. Try clearing your browser cache and reloading the Bits page.

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BitsDuJour Admin - Mar 18 at 5:04am

Pavi Johnson Hi, will Ivona voices work? Although expensive, a quick test seems to indicate that they give the best pronunciation for the types of documents I would be using TextAloud for.

Best, /Pavi

Mar 18 at 1:07pm

James Snead What, if any, are the commercial limitations on the use of the MP3 file assuming the text read is original, such as a story or book?

Mar 18 at 5:27pm

Goran Janevski My previous comments did not appear. Let me try again:

My concern is that TextAloud has been sitting at version 3.0 for at least a year. Is there no new development on it whatsoever?

I happen to think that it is an amazing software program, but surely, it can be improved - in fact I have some suggestions on it.

I'd like the vendor NextUp to comment on this.

Thanks,
Goran

Mar 18 at 5:32pm

Silat Ok after 4 tries and 4 cache clearings the nextup site will not let me buy the product. I am caught in a loop of overcharges etc........
How to buy this?

Mar 18 at 8:14pm

Nuno Hello,

The same happened to me, I got no discount. I bought it anyway because I'm positive that NextUp will solve this with me. If not, well, I'll not be a happy customer.

I've bought dozens of specials here at BDJ, and I even wrote BDJ at their "Where did you heard about us" so that they know where I'm coming from.

My final charge was:

TextAloud
23,48 €
Add 16khz(Professional) AT&T Natural Voices Engine
19,60 €
Total
43,08 €

Mar 19 at 1:24am

Richard Andersen I've always got good and fast support from NextUp, so I don't think there will be any problems in this respect for anyone.

As for the voices, I agree, the Ivona voices are very good, however Nextup's Acapela voices Heather and Ryan (they came as a bundle discount offer together with TA3 when I bought it) are pretty good also, IMO.

Mar 19 at 2:38am

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