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TextSpeech Pro - 3.5.2

Text-to-speech software.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	3.5.2
Release Date:	2009-11-08
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	89
Downloads (all versions):	6,844
Price:	$29.99

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Product Description:

Unleash the power of spoken text with TextSpeech Pro, the most natural-sounding, easy to use text-to-speech software on the market.

Utilizing voices of exceptional quality, TextSpeech Pro lets you:
- Convert text from any document (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) into natural sounding speech.
- Read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools.
- Export synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats (MP3, WAV, AIFF, AU) in quick, normal and batch modes.
- Create multi-voice dialogs, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) using the advanced text-to-speech editor.
- Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses).
- Extract text from scanned documents for conversion to speech or audio files.
- Many more features.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.6

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Oh no, not Cepstral... - Version: 3.4.9, 9/6/2009 09:52PM PST

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zunipus

I hope the speech inflection tools are good here, and I hope this program compensates for the problems with Cepstral voices. I was a bit disappointed to see the application is based on Cepstral technology.

Why I don't like Cepstral: Test the voices and compare their inflections versus Apple's MacInTalk/PlainTalk/Speech voices. The Cepstral voices are a bit brain dead when it comes to question marks versus periods versus exclamation marks. You'd send a real person to the psychiatrist for not comprehending the difference. Example?

I heard your house is on fire.
I heard your house is on fire?
I heard your house is on fire!

Apple's voices know the difference. Not an iota of difference in inflection with Cepstral voices. BAD. Not acceptable IMHO, which is why I avoid them.

Has potential, but not ready for prime time - Version: 3.2.2, 5/23/2009 09:24AM PST

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philosopherdog

I downloaded this program. Got an error on install that instructed me to run the preflight script--an entirely unclear suggestion. I did find the script and ran it, which also caused an error. Anyhow, bear in mind that I was using the extremely crippled demo version. I did do a small dictation on it and it was totally buggy. I stopped at the second line for some inexplicable reason. Finally, there was no uninstaller (though there was an installer), and I had to remove everything manually. The feature list looks very promising. I would hate to discourage development on this product, but so far it doesn't look ready for prime time. Their web page make contact nearly impossible, and no forum was offered to hopefully give some feedback.