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Name Advanced Text To Speech
Price $29.95
License Shareware
OS Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT4, and XP (SAPI4.0 needed).
Software size 2.6MB (Download)

Advanced Text To Speech solves the dilemma of people who love reading but hates having to look at small letters and dealing with texts. Having a dedicated software reading your chosen text for you is the ideal solution, next to buying audio books. Imagine saying goodbye to all the back pains and eyestrains with the ingenious Advanced Text To Speech. Now you can just sit back while listening to your chosen text -- news article, literary piece, song lyrics, commentary, etc -- in audio format. It's like listening to grandma reading your bedtime story once again. This is the ultimate indulgence for the couch potato in all of us.

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Advantages/Strengths

Advanced Text To Speech has some of the inventive features that will surely keep eager readers loving this software. ATTS is the key to a more laid back and less stressful reading experience. You just have to copy and paste your chosen text and ATTS will do the reading for you. If that's not impressive enough, wait till you get to save the audio reading either in WAV or MP3 format. You can take the recorded reading with you using a portable gadget. While on the car, you can already review the report before your actual presentation. You can enjoy Shakespeare or your own blog even when the road is bumpy since no handy manuscript is involved with ATTS. Lazy reading has never been this cool.

As ATTS reads your chosen text, you have the Play, Back, Forward, and Stop button. You are totally in control of your reading, or listening (technically speaking). There are also 27 various voices to choose from. You have the control to choose the quality of voice for the reading -- male, female, child, adult, among others. ATTS, with its latest 3.6 version, offers the option to improve versification and enunciation of the text-to-speech conversion with control labels, plus a key-to-speech option.


Disadvantages/Weaknesses

The sad part is that there are Advanced Text To Speech consumers who are dissatisfied with the program. Many are not happy with the quality of the voice tones available from Advanced Text To Speech. There are those calling the voices 'too robotic' as opposed to what the advertisements and promotions claim as 'sound just like a human,' although no particular advertisements or promotional websites were mentioned. Some users are not happy with listening to robotic voice reading their chosen text. Being it robotic, it is said that the voice commits several mispronunciation. But users seem to forget that it has a feature that lets you correct the pronunciation. You can program the voice how a particular word should be pronounced. If you are a fan of robotic voices though, you will absolutely love this feature.

Aside from the voice, there are also claims that in the event when the software reads what time it is, it cuts the present playback. Also, its welcoming message seems to be fixed, considering some users want to personalize the startup audio message. Another problem is that during startup, ATTS would read the latest text you placed while displaying the previous texts you have entered.


Price

Learning the many different benefits that anyone can get from Advanced Text To Speech makes this software a must-have for anyone who is basically on the PC almost every breathing hour. This program will be very useful especially to those whose visions are already deteriorating because of countless hours in front of the screen, day in and day out. Download Advanced Text To Speech for free and enjoy for 30 days all the relaxation in has to offer to any computer-reading junkie. After the evaluation period, you will be required to pay only $29.95 to cherish a lifetime Advanced Text To Speech ownership. Convenience need not come expensive, don't you think?


Software Size

Advanced Text To Speech not only takes care of your report reviewing, it is also capable of reminding you when the presentation will be. ATTS 3.6 has a new and very convenient Alarm and Reminder capability that serves as your organizer and planner. You are free to adjust the alarm mode as you desire to remind you of important events, appointments, and occasions. Get a hold of this feature by downloading ATTS 3.6 for free (within a trial time of 30 days). It won't take you that long to download and install this software since it's only a 2.6 MB zip file; download is done in a breeze.


Operating System Required/Compatibility

We live in a bullet-paced world where productivity is not anymore measured solely in dollars and euros; it's the minutes and hours that count. No matter how excellent the quality of the work, if it's not delivered on time, it's nothing but a work that ends up in the waste basket. Many of us no longer have the to browser through the pages, scan through folders, or browse tons of websites. There's just so many things to do in so little time. By having this Advanced Text To Speech 3.6 software in your computer, your PC work time is cut in half, making all the reading and reviewing of memos, emails, contracts, and web articles just a piece of cake. In this era of the busy beavers, it's the master of maximizing time who takes home the game.

Having studied the large percentage of the techy generation -- people with laptops, PDA's, and portable devices -- the most widely used operating system was taken as a big account into Advanced Text To Speech creation. Downloading and installing ATTS 3.6 is not a reason for worry since it operates on Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT4, and XP (SAPI4.0 needed). Furthermore, your PC must secure Pentium 100 and a memory of 33MB RAM.


License

Not only does Advanced Text To Speech lets you listen to your chosen texts being read for you, but also capable of playing many files. You only have to choose those memos, emails, contracts, and web articles that you like and Advanced Text To Speech will take care of the job of reading them all to you automatically. This software has a Shareware license, which means they are offered free for download and use for a trial time of 30 days. When this evaluation period expires, an affordable amount is required to register your Advanced Text To Speech product for a lifetime ownership.


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