CoolSpeech

CoolSpeech
CoolSpeech
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CoolSpeech 5.0 running under Windows 7.
Developer(s) ByteCool Software
Stable release 5.0
Operating system Windows
Available in English
Type Text to speech
License Proprietary Shareware
Website http://www.bytecool.com/

CoolSpeech is an award-winning[1] proprietary text-to-speech program for Microsoft Windows, developed by ByteCool Software. It controls text-to-speech engines compliant with Microsoft Speech API to fetch and read aloud text from a variety of sources, including websites, email accounts, local text documents (.txt, .rtf, .htm/html), the Windows Clipboard, keyboard input from anywhere in Windows, and the current date and time. It can also bookmark a text source to be read aloud periodically or on-demand.

CoolSpeech has a 14-day free evaluation period, after which the program would require the user to purchase a US$29.95 license, which allows unlimited use and free upgrades.

Contents

Features

  • Listen to online news from any URL specified by the user.
  • Read local text files, rich-text files and HTML files aloud.
  • Convert a given piece of text into a spoken wave file (.wav).
  • Listen to new messages from POP3 email accounts specified by the user.
  • Listen to every word or sentence the user has just typed anywhere in Windows.
  • Listen to text copied to the Windows Clipboard immediately.
  • Schedule files, URLs and emails to be read aloud.
  • Tell the current time and the date in different styles.
  • Support all Microsoft Speech API 4.0-compliant voices.

Awards

Sister product

CoolSpeech has a sister product TextSound, which specializes in enhanced capabilities to batch convert text files into audio files, for users who need to produce spoken audio files in large volumes.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Awards won by CoolSpeech
  2. ^ SmartComputing magazine November 2001 Smart Choice Award

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