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Text to speech software recommendations?
Hi,
I'm looking for recommendations on good (free/cheap) text to speech software with a couple of different voice options and the abilitly to save as audio files such as .MP3 or .WAV that I can...
Michael, You may have to highlight the text you want and then paste what you want to hear in the reader. I use Sadraware, it's primitive but free. I can use any Sapi 5 voice I can get. The free ones are rather bad, but it'll read anything I can put in the paste buffer.
I'm sure the pay one is much better, but I've never used it. I have used Nextup TextAloud and loved it. TextAloud isn't free but it's cheap and easy to install. Their tech support is great as well. I was trying to install a voice from another TTS and they helped me set it up.
Hope this helps.
P.S. If the pdf is locked you can't read the text. It won't let you highlight and it can only read from an ascii file or the paste buffer.