Speak Lappy

Speak Lappy is a small software application whose purpose is to help you hear how custom text messages are read aloud with the aid of the Windows text-to-speech engine. It gives you the freedom to transform any text to speech with simple clicks. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

It’s easy to work with Speak Lappy taking into consideration its portability status. You may store it on USB flash drives or other similar devices to have it with you all the time. Plus, you can run it straight from the storage device and without having to possess administrative privileges.

You do not have to go through an installation process because a double-click on the BAT file allows you to get access to the tool’s features. You may get rid of it by deleting the files that you have downloaded from the Internet because it does not leave entries in your Windows registry and create additional configuration items.

Speak Lappy can be controlled only via the command-line console. Although inputting parameters in a CMD environment may sound difficult for less experienced users, this particular program makes the entire process seem nothing more than a piece of cake. Plus, it reveals some useful hints directly in the command-line console.

You are offered the possibility to manually input the text message or paste the information from the clipboard. You just need to press ‘Enter,’ and the application starts reading aloud the text automatically.

Tests have pointed out that Speak Lappy carries out a task quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not activated.

To sum things up, Speak Lappy has to offer nothing more than a simple software solution for helping you convert text to speech, and is suitable especially for less experienced users. On the downside, you are not allowed to adjust the speech rate, start, pause, or stop the playback mode, and alter the volume, just to name a few advanced features.