Text2Speech App Reviews

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It’s good, just one wish

I enjoying having articles or other news items read to me, I followed instructions and downloaded some extra voices, my only wish is that I could adjust the pause after periods/full-stops to aid in comprehension. Maybe its just me, but I feel that every voice skips over the periods and runs onto the next sentence too quickly- this could be very troubling if the context changes and could make it difficult to fully grasp a topic, if there was a way to adjust the silence/pause/break after it finds a period- that would be excellent and could help with reducing the “robot-ness”… take it a step further and have a slight variability in the pauses, and that should help even further. I don’t understand why this wasn’t taken into consideration while these system-wide voices were put into place. Update: I just found out I can search and replace “.” with “. [[slnc 1000]]” to make it pause longer on full-stop/periods! It sounds quite good for well-written articles!

Horrible

This application sounds like absolute crap. The default text to speech on Preview reader is much better than any of the voices on this thing.

Helps Focus and Multitasking!!

This is a great app that helps me my concentration. When I get tired or have trouble focusing, sometimes I’ll read a paragraph 3-4 times to process the information. This helps cut my time in half. Its also great when I need to multitask.

If Only...

If only… If only this app did a little bit more than the standard text reader that comes standard on any Mac. I wanted to be able to use this for work, to read my peices back to me, in a voice that sounded even slightly alive. Seriously, if your system doesn’t have a reader, then this is a great buy. Sadly I have deleted this from my drive and now simply email my work to myself and then have SIRI read it to me from my iPhone.

Great FREE Application for this IDEA

GREAT JOB, a lot of voices to choose from.

i am satistied happy customer

i just need it to read pdf to speech in spanish (real spanish not english spanish) i am happy it works, when i bought it i couldnt figure it out how to make it speak real spanish so i complaint and in less than 4 hrs customer service respond it. with the instruction. go to systems preferences->speech-> text to speech->system voice-> customomize... then choose additional voices to download (click "ok" button) once the download has completed relaunch text2speech to use the new voices. i am happy now.

It does what it’s supposed to do

It’s an easy-to-use, basic text-to-speech app. I wish I could open a document into the app, but I have to cut and paste each chapter and that’s so annoying. But it works. It does what it’s supposed to do. For a free app you can’t complain about that!

THANK YOU

This app is so useful, and very high quality for a free app. I use it for school (great to have your essays read to you to catch stupid mistakes you made), and leisure reading. You can select many different voices and speaking speeds to suit your needs. The voice is easy to comprehend and doesn’t sound overly mechanical to the point of lost words. I would definitely recommend this app to anyone who feels that having material read to them would aid in concentration and comprehension!

Coudln’t open a pdf with it

Seriously? I can’t open a pdf that IS readable with other text-to-speech apps. If this app can’t open a pdf, that’s pretty lame!!

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