SpokenText will read your docs, web pages, or email out loud

Posted Dec 20th 2007 6:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Audio, Internet

There's no shortage of services out there that let you convert text to poorly pronounced, mechanical sounding speech. But SpokenText has a few cool features that you don't see too often. Not only can you convert Word, PDF, PowerPoint, TXT, or HTML documents to audio files, but there's also a Firefox extension that lets you select text from any website.

Here are a few other features that make SpokenText stand out:

Choose from several voices, including male and female
Translate English text to spoken French or German
Choose the number of spoken words per minute (although if you set this too high, the recordings will sound awful)
Save files in MP3 or M4B formats

You can also share recordings with other users by sharing your URL or embedding an audio player on your web site.

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Tags: spokentext, text-to-speech, translation

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-31-2008 @ 9:32AM

Muddathir said...

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2-12-2008 @ 11:07PM

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