Text To Speech

Well I was asked to find a good software to help my Dad read attachments and websites when he uses his computer. He does not like all the flickering lights and gets headaches when he looks at the screen for too long!



The task was to find a solution that was free(of course!) and "fire and forget" usability, as my dad is not very technical or PC savvy.



First stop was www.sourceforge.net(open source directory of software) then to the next stop www.download.com(freeware/shareware directory of software). After all that I searched through GOOGLE to see what sites were coming back.



The list was down to these:

Sayz  - http://sayzme.sourceforge.net/

ReadPlease - http://www.readplease.com/

Natural To Text - http://www.naturalreaders.com/

Ultra Hal - http://www.zabaware.com/

AliveTextToSpeech - http://www.alivemedia.net/



The libraries I also downloaded to see what was the latest from the Microsoft Voice API. - www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/



- THE WINNER

Ultra Hal - http://www.zabaware.com/



Ultra Hal met the needs perfectly. Automatic speech options to read incoming messages, copy text to immediate playback was perfect! Thanks to zabaware.com for a great job!