Office Apps can Sound Good

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Friday, April 12, 2002

Software: Please Read

ReadPlease 2002 is a simple text-to-speech application reads text from documents, Web pages or e-mail. Once installed, it creates an icon on your desktop, which can be used to launch it. To have any text read out to you, just copy and paste it in the ReadPlease window. 

It also has a speed slider, which can be dragged up and down to increase or decrease the speed at which your text is read out. Below the slider is a voice changer, which can toggle between various pre-installed voices in the application. There are advanced options under the Tools menu. Here, you can adjust the default speed and pitch for the pre-installed voices under the Voice settings tab. Under Startup tab, you can choose to start ReadPlease when Windows starts, and also define some text that you want it to read out every time it is started. Under the Appearance tab, you can change things like text and background color.

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