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Product Description:
GhostReader is a Universal Binary, multilingual speech solution for Mac OS X that allows users to listen to their documents with naturally sounding voices in a language of choice. It also allows users to create their own personal podcasts or audio books by exporting to iPod-ready iTunes tracks. Or, users can just use it to speak selected text in a handy reader window with play, fast forward and rewind functionality. In some applications, such as Safari, GhostReader enables users to listen to text by just pointing the cursor at the text. Now users can sit back and relax while GhostReader reads the text under the cursor.
GhostReader Features
- Listen to Text, Word, HTML, PDF and RTF files
- Create personal podcasts by converting text to audio files
- Create your own audio books by exporting to iTunes tracks
- Speak selected text in any application using the GhostReader tool palette or a keyboard shortcut
- Point your cursor at text in Safari and listen instead of read
- Includes high quality voices in a language of choice
- Universal Binary (PPC and Intel) requiring Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 or later
What's new in this version:
- New languages with high quality female voices: American Spanish (Rosa) and Canadian French (Louise)
- New languages with medium quality voices: Turkish, Icelandic and Czech
- New high quality voices for Dutch (Max) and British English (Peter)
- Adds a German localization (English and French were already available)
- Enhanced listening experience with buttons to re-listen the current paragraph or sentence or to skip to the next one
- For school use preferences can now be locked and the content of the reader window can be exported to an RTF document
- Many other interface and usability enhancements
- Expanded Help facility
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- 10.4 and higher
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Compare with Leopard (OS 10.5) Before You Buy - Version: 1.1.1, 10/29/2007 01:44PM PST
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- Leopard Text-To-Speech is sort of a downgrade
This is just a "Must Have" program !!!! - Version: 1.1, 7/11/2007 02:23PM PST
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ok14me2I love to give it 10 stars out of 5 - if I could !
I have been waiting for more than 10 years to find it !
I love my Mac !
But as a Swedish citizen I am displeased that my computer can not
speak text in my own language ;-(
People from America and England do not have this problem with there Mac's - but the rest of the world do suffer from this problem !!!!
GhostReader is the ultimate solution !!!!!
For those who love to hear text been spoken in their own language with high quality voices - for example Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish and moreŠ..
You must download the voices for your country to use GhostReader !
I just love to hear my favorite author been spoken with a synthetic voice ;-)
And to all of you out there - follow these simple rules:
Download Application and your Voices.
Read the info !!!!
Test GhostReader.
.....And You Will Be Sold !!!!!!
Here's a *Sample Leopard Recording* (from daringfireball.net) to compare with:
http://daringfireball.net/misc/2007/10/Alex-Text-to-Speech-Example.mp3
* Source Page:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/october