Text-to-Speech Master is very powerful and interesting program that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen or even convert them to audio files! It can read texts with different voices, speeds and pitches, read clipboard content, convert text to WAV or MP3 files and much more! Just imagine, how it's easier to listen to texts rather than read them.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-18
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Hello! I'm Speaking Notepad! I am useful and handy analog of Microsoft Notepad. I will read your DOC, HTML, RTF and TXT documents with different voices! With my help you'll solve a lot of your problems at home or in the office. Give rest to your eyes. I can also read texts with various speeds and pitches, read clipboard content, read to MP3 or WAV sound file and even read every word your are typing. I'm sure, we'll become friends!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-09-27
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 14.95 $

Text to speech, read aloud file list, text to mp3, batch convert text files to MP3 files. Natural voices provide you excellent voice. It integrates with MS Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, IE and Explorer, lets you direct listen to text in documents, web pages, emails etc. Transfer MP3 to your player and enjoy story on the way. For foreign language learner, there is a learning method to learn foreign language with SpeaText on our website.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-08-31
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

It lets you listen to text instead of reading on screen and uses 'Text to Speech' technology to synthesize natural sounding speech from ordinary text. Just copy text to the clipboard or import from text files and listen as ATTSR reads it back to you! It also allows you to convert text to a MP3/WAV audio file.Create MP3 files from your email, news, articles and any text you want, download to your portable MP3 player and off you go!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-03-10
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Converts any text into spoken words. Reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and Documents using your choice of voices. Unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion saves your daily reading to audio files for download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Available with exciting premium voices from ATT Natural Voices, Cepstral, NeoSpeech, Acapela, and Nuance/ScanSoft RealSpeak.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
• Release: 2008-04-24
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Converts any text into spoken words. Reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and documents using your choice of voices. Unique Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily reading to MP3 files to download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Available with exciting premium voices from AT&T, Cepstral and NeoSpeech to add amazing personality to your PC.

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• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

TextAloud converts any text into spoken words. Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant,natural sounding human voice. Better still, leave your computer behind

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• Language: English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: 29.95 $

IVOS (Intelligent Voice Operating System) is an intelligent agent that offers both Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech capabilities, allowing you to run your computer via voice commands. You can control the menu and sub menu of any software, including total voice operation of MS Outlook. You can use voice commands to open files, folders or websites and much more.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-04-29
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 10.00 $

Voice Insert API to Insert Speech To Text in any Windows Application. Recognizes Full 60000 Word English/Chinese Dictation. Features Limited Dictation, Voice Commands and Passwords Enables Point'n Speak with Read Aloud Target Support. XML Scripting Input for Limited Domain Grammar. Compact Instruction Set With Deriving the Full Power of SAPI 5.1 50 + Input/Output Audio Formats. Packed with VB6.0 Tutorials. Visit www.wavetotext.com for online demo

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish
• Release: 2005-09-07
• Size: 50 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

Converts any text into spoken words or even MP3/WAVE audio files. 2nd Speech Center is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. In addition to text, 2nd Speech Center also allows you to convert text to MP3 or WAVE files for listening later with your portable MP3 player. 2nd Speech Center supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-04-06
• Size: 4 Mb
• Cost: 39.95 $

TRSpeaker component is an ActiveX control that adds Text-to-Speech capabilities to your application. If your program uses this component, it can read aloud any text data. This control aggregates The MS Direct Speech Synthesis control (DirectSS). TRSpeaker has all the methods, properties and events that the MS Direct Speech Synthesis control has. So you can use it the same way as the DirectSS.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian
• Release: 2003-05-10
• Size: 256 Kb
• Cost: Free

TTSBuilder allows engineers to create their own Text To Speech Voice or Language using Festival Speech Synthesis Research. A complete step-by-step manual for such a creation is included in the retail version. The evaluation version has one such British Voice created using the mentioned step-by-step techniques. The TTSBuilder converts the heavy technical research oriented documentation into one simple practical guide. Live Demo www.ttsbuilder.com

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian
• Release: 2005-09-02
• Size: 8 Mb
• Cost: 999.00 $

Have your browser read to you. IE Page-Reader Bar is an Internet Explorer tool Bar, that can read Web pages. IE Page-Reader Bar is a text-to-speech application designed to give your browser a human-sounding voice so that it can read arbitrary text to you from Web pages. This Internet Explorer toolbar can read pages in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian and other languages. You can select voice, adjust pitch, temp, etc.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian
• Release: 2003-05-10
• Size: 464 Kb
• Cost: 25.00 $

Text To Wave ActiveX DLL allows programmers to convert any readable text to a spoken wave file or a mp3 file . Ouputs 80+ wave formats XML scripting, ASP Server-Side Scripting for high quality wave production for your web or telephony project.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish
• Release: 2005-09-25
• Size: 9 Mb
• Cost: 299.00 $

Speech Synthesizer is a great Text To Voice Synthesizer for Children to learn English Speaking & Vocabulary. Speech Synthesizer 5.0 is a powerful text to voice converting application that is extremely useful for converting all types of text to speech, learning English pronunciation and Vocabulary building. The voice synthesizer software runs on all Windows Systems and has adjustable speaking speed.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-04-16
• Size: 6 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Bookshelf takes plain text (TXT) files and displays the contents as if they were printed in a book. You get two pages (or one if you wish) side by side with generous margins and a clean, uncluttered interface. You can click on the pages to turn them. It has a wide choice of page styles and convenient navigation system. Now it can scroll pages and read texts aloud. You can edit books, insert pictures, sounds etc.. TR Dictionary can be used.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian
• Release: 2003-05-10
• Size: 892 Kb
• Cost: 29.00 $

River Past Talkative is a easy-to-use text-to-speech software. Speaks text or record to MP3, WAV, OGG Vorbis, or WMA audio. M4A (MPEG-4 AAC Audio) optional. Support plain text and RTF files, or copy text from clipboard. Full control over voice, speaking speed, volume, audio codec, sample rate, channel, bits/sample, and bitrate. Useful for proofreading, or use it to listen to news, emails, articles and web pages.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-03-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $

Wave To Text is an English speech recognition-based dictation pad with a WAV to text converter. The dictation pad lets you convert your voice to text in real-time, while the wizard enables you to convert your Audio WAV files (speech recorded) offline. This speech utility is probably the most high speed way to convert speech to text accurately, no computer conscious dictation and you also don't miss a word

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish
• Release: 2000-11-03
• Size: 23 Mb
• Cost: 39.00 $

Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled. Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean. You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
• Release: 2006-04-03
• Size: 642 Kb
• Cost: Free

This professional text to speech application is designed to assist in listening to text. Verbose can be used to read aloud any text, then save it as mp3 or wav files for future listening.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-07-11
• Size: 179 Kb
• Cost: 19.40 $