Text Speaker

Text Speaker is a small software application whose purpose is to help you convert text into speech using simple actions. It can be deploy on all Windows versions out there, provided that you have the Java working environment installed on the target computer.

The tool is portable so you can keep it stored on pen drives or other similar devices so you can have it with you all the time. Plus, you may run it without administrative privileges. The utility can be opened straight from the storage device.

You do not have to follow the built-in steps included in an installation process because a double-click on the executable file helps you gain access to the GUI. It does not populate your Windows registry with extra entries and create additional configuration items so you may get rid of it with a simple deletion task of the files that you have downloaded from the Internet.

Text Speaker sports a plain design that incorporates only a few configuration settings. A help manual is not comprised in the package, but you can quickly get an idea about how to set up the dedicated parameters because they look easy to work with.

The application offers you the possibility to convert text into speech by manually inputting the target text message directly into the main window or pasting it from the clipboard. What’s more, you can make the application read aloud the custom text message with a single click.

Tests have shown that Text Speaker carries out a task quickly. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

To sum things up, Text Speaker provides nothing more than a simple software solution for helping you read aloud text messages. On the downside, there’s no support for advanced features so you cannot import text data from plain text files, pause the process, make use of hotkeys for starting and stopping the reading mode, choose between different voice types, and adjust the pitch and speed, just to name a few suggestions.