Power Text to Speech Reader

Power Text to Speech Reader is a small software application whose purpose is to help you read aloud text on your PC and export the audio streams to MP3 or WAV file format.

It is able to process documents, emails, and webpages. The program also comes with support for plugins for Internet Explorer and Outlook.

You are welcomed by a clean and straightforward layout that gives you the possibility to import text data from various file formats, such as TXT, RTF, DOC, HTML, EML, and PDF. Files can be added in the working environment using the built-in browse button (the drag-and-drop support is not implemented).

Thanks to the multi-tabbed environment, you can open different documents at the same time and quickly switch between them. The text data can also be input directly in the main window or pasted from the clipboard.

Power Text to Speech Reader allows you to read aloud the entire document, speak from the cursor’s position, or read only the selected text.

What’s more, you can pause or stop the reading mode, export the audio streams to a file on your computer, choose between different voice types, as well as adjust the pitch and speed. The text information can be exported to plain text or RTF file format.

Tests have shown that Power Text to Speech Reader carries out a task quickly and without errors. It is quite friendly with system resources so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

You can make Power Text to Speech Reader automatically monitor clipboard data for text and read it, as well as ignore clipboard updates if the text content has not changed.

A smart feature included in the package enables you to read aloud the time at a custom time interval, play custom WAV files before the alarm is activated, and show popup message box.

Other important configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to alter the text in terms of font, font style, size, and color, adjust the background color, automatically read the next document in the list, and ignore user-defined characters.

To sum things up, Power Text to Speech Reader offers support for a handy and intuitive feature mix for helping you make use of text-to-speech capabilities, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.