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More About Text to Speech Software

Vic March 31st, 2008

 

The other day I posted about a Free Christian Audio Book website textaloudlogo.gifthat offered synthesized audio books using TextAloud software. Today I got to thinking that many of you may not be aware of the many other uses of that software so today I'm going to talk a little more about how it can really help save you time.

TextAloud 2.0 is the most popular text to speech software available today and version 3 which is due out very soon promises many new features.

TextAloud can save you time in many ways, it can read your email for you, read web pages, reports, text from almost any text document and  much more. TextAloud can also save your reading tasks to MP3 or Windows Media files ready for playback on your iPod, PocketPC, or even on your TV with Tivo's Home Media Option.

Just think of how much more productive and/or entertained you'll be wherever you go with this text reader. If you haven't listened to computer generated speech recently, I think you'll be amazed at how human-like the latest voices really are.

But don't take my word for it you can download a free trial version of TextAloud from their website and give it a try for yourself. Also available on their website is sample recordings of many of the premium voices.

Business people, students, educators, writers, lawyers, homemakers and busy people from all walks of life find TextAloud to be an essential tool they use every day. It's been featured in The New York Times, PC Magazine, Writer's Digest, on CNN and more.

So head on over to their website and check it out and while you're there you can don't forget to check the other time saving software titles they offer such as NewsAloud, WeatherAloud and StocksAloud you can also read what others have to say about this software. Some of the user testimonials give some really innovative ways to use this software.

Enjoy 

 

Best Audiobooks of 2007

Vic March 3rd, 2008

The editors of AudioFile have given their recommendations of 45 must-hear audiobooks in six categories from the past year. Their entire list can be found here.

Below are my favorites from AudioFile's list of 45.

Fiction 

Non Fiction

Another audiobook that AudioFile included in this category is The Secret By: Rhonda Byrne and although it's not one of favorites I wanted to include it here with a question for you. Do you believe that this book should be listed in the Non Fiction category? Please add your comments about this controversial audio book below.

Biography & History

Family Listening

Stay tuned I'll add the next categories shortly.

Merry Christmas

Vic December 24th, 2007

 

 

I'd like to wish everyone everywhere a very Merry Christmas. 

 

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   Jesus The Greatest Gift Of All 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do You Squidoo?

Vic October 31st, 2007

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Just a really short post to tell you about my Squidoo lens and in particular my Now in Audio lens. Please check it out.

Squidoo has become quite popular and it's really easy to set a lens on your favorite subject or topic. Visit my Now in Audio lens and check out my other lens and then create your own. 

Attention Webmasters

Vic April 11th, 2007

I know many of you that read this blog are webmasters and as one myself I think you’ll find this new product of Joel Comm’s very useful. I know I did and now’s your change to get it at a special price.

 

Internet Marketing Audio Books

Vic March 6th, 2007

It was just brought to my attention that many of you may not be aware of the exceptional deals our audio book store offers on almost 40 internet marketing related audio books, podcasts and Big Seminar Preview calls.

There’s Paul Colligan and Anik Singals “Affiliate Guy” podcast, Alex Mandossians, John Reese, Armand Morin, Joel Christopher, Jim Edwards, Jimmy Brown, Mike Filsaime, Rich Schefren and many more Big Seminar preview calls and the pricing will knock your socks off.

So head on over to our Internet Section located in the Business Category. If you’re looking for some really great internet marketing insight from some of the big name internet marketers I guarantee you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Audio Book Narrators

Vic February 25th, 2007

Audio book narrators are the unsung heros of the audio book world. Many people listen to audio books never thinking of the person who's narrating the book. To me this is really sad, after all it's the narrators voice or voices that bring the authors words to life. It's for this reason that I'm developing a Squidoo lense dedicated solely to the audio book narrator. This new lense will feature a new narrator each month and a list of narrators that you can add to and vote for your favorite narrator. Audio book narration is an art form in and of itself, hopefully this will help generate some recognition for this art. I hope you'll find the time to get over to Audio Book Narrators and vote for your favorite.

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