Convert any text to wave file. Active-Sound V2.5 is a text-to-speech application designed to give your computer a human-sounding voice so that it can read arbitrary text to you in English or convert arbitrary text to wave file in English.Active-Sound V2.5 provides total 23 different types of voice including Man voice and Woman voice. Key Features for Active-Sound V2.5: (1) Convert arbitrary text to wave file; (2) eBook Reader using text-to-speech technology; (3) type-in-speak-out writing board; (4) Copy/Paste support in writing board; (5) 23 type of voice including man, woman and Robot; (6) 4 speaking characters; (7) Viewable speaking mouth; (8) Changeable speaking speed; (9) Changeable voice volume; (10) True-voice supporting.

ZebSpeech is a FREE program, which supports Text-to-Speech (computer reads the text to you!) and speech recognition (you dictate the text to computer and it types!) technologies.

You will be able to add/remove your own word for recognising, create your own voice for text-to-speech as well as use many options provided to change the way speech Recognition and text-to-speech works.

In addition ZebSpeech has an advance word-processor, which supports many useful features. For example you can edit Microsoft Word .doc files, and convert files to .pdf WITHOUT requiring any extra third-party software. You can export files to css, html as well as open and edit XML.

In version 2 ZebSpeech allows mail merge, report generation and database editing and handling. Also you can use Microsoft Word for speech Recognition and text-to-speech by using ZebSpeech’s add-in.

Speech recognition, text-to-speech and word-processor makes ZebSpeech a unique and comprehensive software!

Do you ever want to convert text to audio? Active TTS is what you want. It can convert text to mp3, text to wma or text to wav on the fly using the state of art text to speech (TTS) system. It converts text to mp3 or text to wma directly without generating any other temporary files. This is the unique feature of Active TTS. You have full control on the quality of the speech file by setting the encoding parameters.

Active TTS wraps SAPI4 and SAPI5 in a simple way to use.
Active TTS is specially designed to convert text to audio file.
Active TTS can convert MP3 to swf (Macromedia flash movie) so that the speech can be embeded in web sites easily

Directly convert text to wav, text to mp3, text to wma, text to ogg, text to vox, text to au and text to aiff format on the fly without temporary files created.
Convert text to speech at high speed and save your disks life as well
Show progress when speaking or converting text
Support SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant voices.
Convert mp3 to Macromedia flash format, so you can convert text to swf and add mp3 stream speech to web site in realtime
SupportbBatch text to audio conversion
Support TTS events
Support Windows media lossless and speech codec
Examples in VB, VB Script, C#, ASP, C++ Builder, ColdFusion, Delphi, JScript, Perl, PHP , VC++ are provided.
Provide TTS Service tool to make text to speech conversion in IIS more easiler.

Voices are important to a text-to-speech software. There are default voices shipped with Windows 2000 above.

The capability and quality of the speech output are usually determined by the voices. There is a bunch of free voices on the internet for different languages. You can download and try.

To know more information about Active TTS, please visit http://www.guangmingsoft.net/activetts/

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TextAloud reads text from email, web pages, reports and more, aloud on your PC. TextAloud can also save your daily reading to MP3 or Windows Media files ready for playback on your iPod, PocketPC, or even on your TV with Tivos Home Media Option. Be more productive or just be entertained wherever you go with our text reader.
* US English text to speech Voices
* UK English text to speech Voices
* Spanish text to speech Voices
* German text to speech Voices
* French text to speech Voices
* Indian English text to speech Voice

If you havent heard computer speech lately, youll be amazed at how human-like the latest voices really are. Click Here for a sample audio file created using our text to speech converter with the optional AT&T Natural Voices?. We also offer exciting premium voices from NeoSpeech? and Cepstral? to bring you the best quality and personality in speech for your PC.

Software Features:
1. Sit back and relax while your PC reads to you
2. Save text to MP3 for portable audio players
3. Proofread your own writing
4. Listen to that report while youre on the treadmill
5. Find help for someone with a reading disability
6. Create messages for your answering machine
7. Reduce eye strain from too much reading
8. Listen to information while you work on something else
9. Take some reading along for your daily walk or run
10. Turn your iPod into a tax write-off
11. Listen to an eBook during your commute
12. Study English as a Second Language
13. Help a senior citizen or someone with low vision
14. Add some spice to your PowerPoint presentations
15. Find a great new tool to study for exams
16. Listen to text read in other languages
17. Amuse your kids by letting your PC read stories to them
18. Create audio files for computer games
19. Prepare for a big speech by hearing your words read aloud

Voice Insert speech Recognition SDK - insert speech to text in any Windows Application. Recognizes Full 60000 Word English/Chinese Dictation. Features Limited Dictation, voice Commands and Passwords Enables Pointn Speak with Read Aloud Target Support. XML Scripting Input for Limited Domain Grammar. Compact Instruction Set With Deriving the Full Power of SAPI 5.1 50 + Input/Output Audio Formats. Packed with VB6.0 Getting Started Tutorials.

Voice Insert speech Recognition SDK gives you the possibility to insert speech/voice to text.

Here are some key features of "Quick speech Development SDK":

· voice Commands and Passwords Enables Pointn Speak with Read Aloud Target Support
· Compact Instruction Set With Deriving the Full Power of SAPI 5.1 50 + Input/Output Audio Formats
· Server Side Execution or Active Server Page Samples for Subsequent Wave to text operation

With Virtual voice you can easily convert text to speech!

Thats ideally for presentations, your homepage, your programs or just for fun.

Virtual voice can convert the spoken text in the WAVE file-format with different options like speech volume, speech speed, language and different voices.

TTS Builder description
TTS Builder - Create your own text to speech voice using TTS Builder TTSBuilder enables engineers to create their own text to speech voice or Language using High Quality Open Festival speech Synthesis Research.

A complete step-by-step manual for such a creation is included in the retail version.

The evaluation version has one such British voice created using the mentioned step-by-step techniques. The TTSBuilder converts the heavy technical research oriented documentation into one simple practical guide, all you require to do is follow the steps. Not to mention all required libraries for Windows are included.

This is an Research Lab attempt to bring speech synthesis to basic developers. Retail Version Includes:
Step - By - Step Manual for text to speech voice Creation,Required Windows Libraries for deployment of the TTS Engine.

Festival speech Synthesis Research allows one to create production level text to speech Engines. Contact tim@research-lab.com for details


Requirements: Sound Card

Whats New in This Release:

Added more Voices

Wave TTS ActiveX description
This ActiveX allows adding full text to speech functionality to your programs Wave TTS ActiveX was designed to be an OCX control for software developers Wave TTS ActiveX allows adding full text to speech functionality to your programs.

This ActiveX was built on the Microsoft text to speech (from 5.1), you can set the voice of the text to speech, set any PCM formats, set the specific device to speak to ,set the volume, set the rate, save a text to an audio wave file, and more and more....

Wave TTS ActiveX 1.0 can speak directly to sound cards, phone cards, voice modems and any other voice devices, so you can develop many types of applications, such as: answering machine, phone call recorder, caller id, text to speech to wave files, and more windows applications.

Here are some key features of "Wave TTS ActiveX":

· text to speech ActiveX
· Set voices
· Set PCM format
· Set output (sound cards, phone cards, voice modems, etc.)
· Set volume.
· Set rate.
· Save TTS to wave file.
· Fully supports TAPI Modem ActiveX
· Fully supports Wave Player Recorder ActiveX.
· Visual Basic samples
· .NET samples.
· Errors handling
· Source code is also available (in a different distribution).


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

Wave TTS ActiveX 1.0 is an OCX control for software developers; with this ActiveX you can add a full text to speech functionality your programs. This ActiveX was built on the Microsoft text to speech (from 5.1), you can set the voice of the text to speech, set any PCM formats, set the specific device to speak to ,set the volume, set the rate, save a text to an audio wave file, and more and more.... Wave TTS ActiveX [PROGR_VERSION] can speak directly to sound cards, phone cards, voice modems and any other voice devices, so you can develop many types of applications, such as: answering machine, phone call recorder, caller id, text to speech to wave files, and more windows applications. Includes visual basic and vb.net samples.

Supports voice Commands and Text-To-Speech byencapsulating SAPI (Speech Application ProgrammingInterface). Microsoft voice and IBM VoiceType 3.1 bothsupport SAPI. Works with Delphi 2 and Delphi 3.