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DESCRIPTION

GhostReader is a multilingual text-to-speech solution for Mac OS X that allows you to listen to your documents with naturally sounding voices in a language of choice.

Use it:

Save time

  • Convert documents to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone.
  • Convert text from news sites and emails to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone.

Overcome reading difficulties

  • Listen to selected text in any application with word or sentence highlighting.
  • Point the cursor at text in Safari, TextEdit, Mail or Pages 2008 to hear the paragraph below the cursor.

Proofread

  • Listen to your own text to proof spelling and composition.

Improve pronunciation of foreign languages

  • Listen to text on foreign web sites in an interactive reader window.
  • Type foreign text in a new reader window to hear the pronunciation.

Create podcasts

  • Create personal podcasts by converting your text to audio files or iTunes tracks.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.1:
  • Export to iTunes now: (1) Sets album, album artist, and year to default values; (2) Puts the date and time of audio creation in the iTunes comments field; (3) Uses the GhostReader logo as default album art.
  • Fixes spinning cursor issue with Pages 2008
  • Acapela Group provided fixes to the following voice issues: (1) Activation problem with American Spanish; (2) Occasional crash with the Italian Chiara voice; (3) Text encoding problems with Czech and Polish voices.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:ConvenienceWare
Downloads:4,061
  - Version d/l:354
Utilities:System
License:Demo
Date:04 Jun 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$39.95
RATING
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    GhostReader User Reviews (15 posts)Write A Review
    Dec 7 2007
    *****

    ISAW  I'm totally delighted that I bought GhostReader. It reads superbly well with Leopard's Alex voice. It's great for reading webpages when I'm tired of reading them myself. I've set it to read the text under my cursor when I press the Control key.

    GhostReader is extremely useful for proof-reading emails and forum text entries before I post them. It picks up correctly spelled words that are the wrong word in context--like 'no' instead of 'on' which I easily overlook.  (Version 1.1.1)

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    Oct 29 2007

    ROBIN-O-HOOD  Does Leopard have Improved Text-Speaking? YES it does!

    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  (Version 1.1.1)

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    Sep 18 2007
    *****

    TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE  There's one word that describes this app: WOW!!!!  (Version 1.1.1)

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    Jul 11 2007
    *****

    OK14ME21  This is just a "Must Have" program !!!!

    I 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 !!!!!!  (Version 1.1)

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