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Read4Me 1.6.3

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Text reader with a variety of voices. Commercial ($3.99)

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Bas Meijer

Read4Me lets your Mac do the talking. It will read text and pronounce it in a choice of voices. You can save the audio to file. And it is very easy to start, stop and select another voice, and change the speed of reading in words per minute.

Actually it is a full text editor with spell check, printing, saving to Rich Text Format or Plain Text.

Nice for kids, great for presenters and as a media production utility.

What's New

Version 1.6.3:

Truncation in saving multi-voice audio has been fixed. 
Reading after save has been fixed. 
Opening text files has been improved.

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

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Convert plain text into audio.

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Jimblue commented on 08 Feb 2012

in system prefs/speech/text to speech/customize I downloaded Serena and Emily -- from Uk voices. they are quite nice to listen to. just highlight any text in any app and press option-esc. it's good to use for proofreading your stuff back to you. Jill and Samantha are pretty pleasant for american-english. there's a script now too to "add to iTunes as spoken track" under the Services menu.

just some tips -- not sure what this app does. could be a 5-star app, i don't know.

[Version 1.6.0]

+21

Bobembry commented on 06 Feb 2012

MAS says 10.7 is required to download this version

[Version 1.6.0]

Bas Meijer reviewed on 09 Dec 2011

Very cool

[Version 1.4.7]

Bas Meijer reviewed on 09 Dec 2011

Read4me can read dialogs with multiple voices. The Coach allows tagging the text to introduce pitch changes, rate changes, pauses, etc. You can save Microsoft Word documents to AudioBook, and also web pages, rich text, and plain text.

[Version 1.4.7]

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Monkeyjunkey commented on 16 Sep 2011

Mac OS X 10.7 does this for you. What's the use of this program then?

[Version 1.4.3]

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Dgerzeeboy replied on 11 Nov 2011

Yep. Highlight any text in any app, press the F4 key, and you've saved yourself 4 bucks. Choose the voice of your choice in the "Speech" system preference.