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Text2Speech
Text2Speech 1.20
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Speech utility with configurable speaking rates and voices.   Free
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Text2Speech is a free text to speech utility !

It is very easy to change the speaking rate, or to start, stop and select different voice.

Text2Speech can help you read text with over 10 voices, Text2Speech supports non-English languages in OS X Lion.

When you run Mac OS X 10.7 Lion you will be able to download additional voices from Apple for free. go to System Preferences -> Speech -> Text to Speech -> System Voice -> Customize... then choose additional voices to download (click 'OK' button). Once the download has completed relaunch Text2Speech
What's New
Version 1.20:
  • Set speaking rate accurately (words for minute).
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later



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Text2Speech User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 1.x:
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JCH2 reviewed on 29 Sep 2011
For freeware, its just fine and does all that should. As freeware, its one major flaw has noting to do with the application itself. If it's freeware, why not make it ultimately free as in downloadable without having to go through big brother and the appstore.

Very dumb for a smart little utility.
[Version 1.0]

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Baannongdong-Kap replied on 29 Sep 2011
Thanks a million. It's great. Now I can hear all my English spoken with a Thai accent like being in Thailand. Without your intro about setting up voices, I wouldn't have known such a thing was possible. And, thank you for spending your time and brains to provide us Mac users with another FREE app. (Feel sorry for Microsoft people. lol)
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Hkim replied on 10 Nov 2011
I must agree. I will probably never use this because of that restriction, however the developer has an interesting array of software that can be downloaded without the App Store.
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Philfrance reviewed on 29 Sep 2011
Export to mp3 or AAC would be great…
[Version 1.0]


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Dejmac reviewed on 29 Sep 2011
Not bad for free app. What is missing? There is no option to assign different voices to read parts of the text consequently. Just one voice and that's it!
[Version 1.0]

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JCH2 replied on 29 Sep 2011
It's a reader... not a drama audio composer. For that, you could take the time to choose a narrative voice, the create different character voices dialogue, then assemble with an audio editor. For freeware, it's pretty nice, but we shouldn't expect it to take on the roles of that which it is not... and maybe shouldn't be.
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Downloads:1,226
Version Downloads:526
Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio
License:Free
Date:10 Nov 2011
Platform:Intel
Price:Free0.00
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Text2Speech is a free text to speech utility !

It is very easy to change the speaking rate, or to start, stop and select different voice.

Text2Speech can help you read text with over 10 voices, Text2Speech supports non-English languages in OS X Lion.

When you run Mac OS X 10.7 Lion you will be able to download additional voices from Apple for free. go to System Preferences -> Speech -> Text to Speech -> System Voice -> Customize... then choose additional voices to download (click 'OK' button). Once the download has completed relaunch Text2Speech to use the new voices.

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion supports these languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish , Swedish, Thai, Turkish.
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