Talking Clipboard is a useful tool hat was designed in order to help you turn your text documents to audio output. It supports all SAPI compliant voices, and can read a large number of native document formats directly. It can convert text to audio MP3 files and support full control over reading like Play/Pause/Stop, jump to next or previous paragraph or line via menu or media remote or keyboard media buttons.

Here are some key features of "Talking Clipboard":

· Reads text using any Microsoft SAPI compliant voice.
· Reads any document: DOC, PDF, RTF, HTML, TEXT.
· Reads eBooks in ePub format, other formats can be converted using any2epub.
· Edit and Save the files in TEXT, WAV and MP3 (with ID3 tags) format.
· Highlight text while reading.
· Reads text from any program via Clipboard, just copy the selected text.
· Batch text based files conversion to audio files.
· Change pronunciation of any word, like personal nouns using IPA.
· Set speech alias for any words like doctor for Dr.
· Modify input text using regular expression before start reading.
· Set bookmarks within text articles and move to them using menu entries.
· Set longer pauses between sentences and paragraphs, if desired.
· Control reading from menu, system tray and also via media remote control.
· Adjust voice, speed, pitch, volume, text font, font & background color, etc.
· Read from cursor or read selected text or read the whole text.
· Pause, Stop, Jump to next/previous line or paragraph any time while reading.
· Accelerator keys for all buttons and menus, supports multimedia keys.
· Configure clipboard reading and MP3 output settings like frequnecy, bit rate.
· Open files from shell context menu or drag & drop or using the File menu.
· Supports talking reminder facility, never forgot/miss important things.
· In-built Wordnet dictionary, and support for online Wiktionary.
· Filter non-alpha symbols from the text before reading.
· Minimize to system tray and automatically run on windows startup.
· Search or Replace any text in the in-built editor.
· Insert pause of any time limit between text, to give audio more natural effect.
· Read emotions in the text from emails or IM chat like happy :) or sad :(, etc.
· Inbuilt spell checker for better readability and pronounciations.
· Inbuilt RSS reader, to listen to the latest news and your favorite blogs updates.
· Full screen mode to act as an e-book reader.
· Print documents and Most recently used file feature.
· Comes with a CHM decompiler and Unzip utilities to read other formats.
· Reduces eye strain and help environment by saving papers.
· Help in memorizing important things and preparation for exams.

Requirements:

· Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework

Limitations:

· 15 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added Mozilla Firefox Text to Speech Toolbar Addon.