Speech2Go

When you are feeling tired or simply a little bit lazy, you can rely on a dedicated software utility to read aloud your documents, so you no longer need to sit at your computer.

One of the available options you can turn to is called Speech2Go.

The main window of this app is user-friendly and intuitive, so you can make the most of its feature-set even if you are a novice when it comes to PC skills.

Just select the text you are interested in, then choose the voice you prefer, then sit back and listen to the words. You can adjust the rate and the volume as you see fit, if you are not satisfied with the default values.

You can start by typing or pasting some text in the dedicated section.

Alternatively, you can open a file from your computer, while keeping in mind that the supported formats are as follows: TIF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TXT, PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, RTF, ODF, ODT, ODS, ODP, OOXML, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and HTML. The font type, size and style can be altered.

You can save the current file as MP3 or WAV, then play it again at a later time, on a device of your choosing. Before saving the tracks, you can split the reading into paragraphs or into parts of certain numbers of minutes.

You can tamper with the standard configuration by activating clipboard monitoring or minimize to system tray. You can also set Speech2Go to use OCR for reading PDF documents or ignore SAPI tags.

To summarize, Speech2Go can be a handy tool for all those who prefer to listen to their documents rather than read them on a daily basis.