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 4, the world's most popular text to speech utility!
TextAloud 4 reads your email, websites, reports, and more, aloud. You can also use TextAloud 4 to save your daily reading material to audio files that you can then play back on your portable audio devices. 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 4! TextAloud 4 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!
Please note folks, version 4 of TextAloud brings the following improvements:
- Improved User Interface
- Pronunciation Dictionary Enhancements
- Integration with Pocket and Instapaper
- Rebuilt Floating Toolbar
- New Theming Support (Skins)
- Article List on the Left
- Simplified Word Highlighting
- Scroll Around and Skip to Different Locations
- New Navigations
- Speak From Sentence
- Speaking Rules
- New Hotkeys
- Clipboard / Mouse Speak
- Configurable Double Click
- Improved File Splitter
- Audio File Enhancement
- Audio Meter on Voice Options Panel
- Right To Left Text Support
- New Repeat Tag
- Enhanced Voice Change Tag
- Show / Hide Tags
- User Interface Modes
Features
The Fine Print
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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.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8
- Get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase TextAloud 4 it may be used indefinitely.
- TextAloud 4 is licensed per computer, and not per user.
- 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.
- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “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
