Make Your Computer Talk and Be An Audio File originator

If you have a large amount of files to read on the computer, you can have the files read out to you by text to speech software to avoid eyestrain. Text to speech technology also called speech synthesis technology, has been widely used in digital products and services. Now there are varied text to speech systems designed for dissimilar operating systems, such as for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. For example, Festival is the speech synthesizer for Linux. On Macs, this potential is called MacinTalk or PlainTalk and can be used via the "SimpleText" program. Business customers, educators, students, writer, language learners and those with optic or vocal impairment or studying disabilities will benefit from this technology.

For Windows 7 and Vista users, with the text to speech software Panopreter Plus, you can listen to the natural-sounding speech, and change characters, words, phrases or files in file format of txt, rtf, doc, Pdf and web pages into mp3 and wave (wav) audio files. For Windows Xp users, the voice of Microsoft Sam is not as clear as the voice of Microsoft Anna on Windows 7 and Vista, however installing a high-quality text to speech voice is a workaround.

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Following is the detailed steps of how to use Panopreter Plus.

1. Run the software first, opt the speech mode by clicking "Read file" radio button on the up-left projection of the window, then click the "Add" button to add files to be read, and "Delete" button to remove a file. An array of files can be added.

2. opt the language from the language list window, the default language is Us English. The language you opt must be the same as the language of the file, otherwise the speech will not be what you want to hear.

3. opt the text-to-speech voice, the default voice for the selected language of Us English is Microsoft Anna on Windows 7 or Vista, and Microsoft Sam on Windows Xp.

4. Click "Speak" button, the text will be read aloud with the voice of Microsoft Anna or Sam. While the speech user can adjust the volume and rate, the word or sentence being read will be highlighted.

5. Click "Save to audio" button, the software will change the files into mp3 and wave files. The conversion advance status is also visible. Normally, it takes just a few minutes to change a large 50K file to wave and mp3 files.

After the conversion complete, you can find the created audio files in the same briefcase where the files reside.

There is an additional one feature that makes surfing online a listening experience, Panopreter Plus includes toolbar for Internet Explorer, after enabling the toolbar on the web browser and clicking on the corresponding buttons, the text on the web page will be read aloud. If user has selected some text, only the selected text will be read out, otherwise all the text will be read out, the word being read will be highlighted too. Click "Convert to mp3" and "Convert to wav" buttons to change the web page to mp3 or wave audio files. Now user can listen to the mp3 files on the computer, or export them to a transported mp3 player for listening whenever they prefer.

On the other hand, when user opt the "Input and Speak" work mode, user can type or copy&paste some characters, words, phrases, or even longer text into the window, then the software will directly read them aloud or do conversion to audio files, without recovery them to a file first.

Now we know this voice-enabled recipe to process digital data in our daily life, why not take a try?

Make Your Computer Talk and Be An Audio File originator