Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system. Many, many registry changes...

A company without name and address, few "news", the latest from November 2014.

The software is from mid 2011, the lame encoder from 2009.

Upon start a resizable window opens, you can change few options. The text does not fit into the window.
http://i.imgur.com/WpKhMG9.png

Hmmm, the "download voices" leads to a 404:
http://i.imgur.com/P5GhQ3g.png

You can open a text file or paste it from the keyboard - "Read Aload", change speed and volume or add a smart pause, which did not work for me.
After adding a "smart pause", the program crashed:
http://i.imgur.com/GXmziET.png

Hmmm, difficult to say anything and remain polite. Think what you want.

I have a long experience with text-to-speach software. I payed years ago a high price for the NaturalReader, which is IMHO still the best software around. The voices had around 700 MB per voice, you had to pay every voice separately. Now, due to the many free text-to-speech programs, prices have been dropped dramatically. But even with this software it was and still is difficult, the get a good sounding, "naturally" spoken text. It does take practice and much time, to organize the text for a good speech result.

Uninstalled via reboot. Don't waste your time and have a nice Sunday!

Karl  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+273)

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"Balabolka Portable"

http://www.cross-plus-a.com/bportable.htm

http://portableapps.com/apps/accessibility/balabolka-portable

Balabolka is an amazing TTS Program which also uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) and Microsoft Speech Platform. It can read the clipboard content , view the texts from chm, djvi , pdf , docx , doc , epum , mobi , odt , html , rtf etc and also offers to save the on-screen text into Wav, Mp3 , Mp4 , ogg or wma file. Balabolka can save the sxnchronized text in external LRC files or in Mp3 tags inside the audio files. It implements the spell checking engine Common Speller API. It can use Hunspell which is default spell checker of Openoffice and Firefox .

Microsoft Speech API 4.0 - http://download.microsoft.com/download/speechSDK/Install/4.0a/WIN98/EN-US/spchapi.EXE

Microsoft Speech API 5.1installer - http://www.cross-plus-a.com/util/SAPI_5.1_installer.msi

Microsoft Speech Control Panel - http://www.cross-plus-a.com/voices/spchcpl.exe ( the Speech Control Panel will add an icon to your Control Panel to enable you to list the compatible text-to-speech engines installed on your system and customize their settings for your use. )

The Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine - http://www.v3mail.com/download/ttsengines.htm

Jahid  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+136)

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installed in xp mode : ok

no language alternatives

english language voice very bad and poor
has a few options but why bother when I cannet understand the voice

I cannot see any point at all to keep this software

verdict : no good

jens  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+99)

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Installed fine on Windows 8.1.
Pasted a piece of text which the program read out with the usual Microsoft voice.
Changed the voice, clicked Read Aloud button and program crashed with OLE Error 80045025
Not a good start!

Harroman  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+84)

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Installed OK on 64 bit Windows 7. Registration was cut and pasted from the readme file; popped up a box that said registered no problem. Everything seemed good until I tried to add another voice besides the default Windows voice. The program wouldn't add the new voice and when I closed and opened it, the program wanted the registration information again. Too many other free TTS programs to bother with this so I deleted it. NaturalReader, Morz, or Read4Me Clipboard do the same thing for free.

Dan  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+61)

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