Speakonia
Editors’ Review
Not a fictional Eastern European country from a Marx Brothers movie, Speakonia is actually a modest freeware utility that reads text out loud. Speakonia comes with about 20 voices (all with strong robotic accents) and lets you quickly change the reading speed and pitch. It’s also little trouble to correct the pronunciation of words (proper names, for instance). Speakonia can save text in WAV files for playback when you’re driving or jogging, but unfortunately it can’t save sound files in the MP3 format, so you may need a third-party conversion utility. The program interface is clear and straightforward; you simply select text in any document and press Ctrl C to read it aloud. However, Speakonia lacks controls for skipping to the next sentence or paragraph. In spite of those drawbacks, its decent performance and free price make it a reasonable choice for the vision-impaired or people who’d rather do their reading with their ears than their eyes.
WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 1.3.5
Developer’s Description
Speakonia is a Text-To-Speech Program which is controlled through a graphical user interface (Similar to Notepad).
Speakonia reads aloud any given text. The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can have your mails read to you using the ‘Clipboard Reading’ feature.To use the full potential of Speakonia a registration key is needed.
Speakonia reads aloud any given text. The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can have your mails read to you using the ‘Clipboard Reading’ feature.To use the full potential of Speakonia a registration key is needed.