Text Speakout

Text Speakout is an intuitive and lightweight software solution developed as a text to speech utility that can help you convert written words into spoken form.

The application is very easy to work with, being quite approachable even by the less experienced computer users, thanks to is straight-forward and basic interface, that features all its functions in a visible manner.

In order to have a text read aloud by Text Speakout, you need to enter it in the assigned field, either by typing it manually or by pasting it from another source. Also, you have the option of selecting the preferred voice, between the default Microsoft voices of a male or a female speaking American English or a female voice speaking British English.

When you have finished setting up this small configuration details, you can press the 'SPEAK!' button and Text Speakout will start to read the input text back to you, enabling you to listen to it through any audio device, such as headphones. The piece of text you enter can in fact be quite lengthy, and despite seemingly 'Not Responding', the utility will continue to read it until the end, at which point it will become responsive once again.

Moreover, Text Speakout allows you to save the generated audio to WAV format, exporting the file to any location you choose on your computer. This way, you can re-use the same file every time you need it. This small utility can prove quite useful for language learners for instance, or people who have experience difficulties when reading large pieces of text. This way, they can just listen to a newspaper article, a poem or even a short story.

To conclude, Text Speakout is a useful and efficient application that can successfully assist you in turning written text into oral productions, that you can also save as audio files to your PC.