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.
[via
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