February 2005

[1 - Greetings - Win Something from NextUp.com!]
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Hello from NextUp.com!

Congratulations to Deborah N., who won the drawing last month for a NextUp.com duffel bag.  This month one lucky reader will receive a NextUp.com T-Shirt, so be sure to read on for details on how you can enter the drawing.  Thanks for staying tuned!

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[2 - NextUp.com Announces New Voices from Cepstral]
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We are happy to announce we are now selling some great new voices from Cepstral. 

http://nextup.com/Cepstral.html

New US Voices are headlined by Amy and David, but there are also great new voices in UK English, Canadian French, German, and Spanish.  You can hear samples and buy the voices at

http://nextup.com/Cepstral.html

These exciting, small footprint voices are SAPI5 compatible, meaning they work in all NextUp.com products as well as most other newer windows programs.  They are much smaller than other voices, averaging under 50mb of disk space, take less memory and CPU, and work very fast when creating audio files.

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[3 - NextUp Talker Available to Help Those Who Cannot Speak]
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NextUp Talker, formerly named TalkForMe during our initial tests, is now available for purchase at

http://www.TalkForMe.com

This program is specifically designed for those who can no longer speak.  It makes carrying on conversations or talking over the phone possible for those who can no longer speak.  We are very excited about this program based on the feedback we've had from several users.  This type of technology can truly change a person's life, so if you know of anyone who has trouble speaking, be sure to let him or her know about NextUp Talker at

http://www.TalkForMe.com

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[4 - TextAloud Tip of the Month - Using the TextAloud 2.0 Internet Explorer Plug-in]
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For those of you using TextAloud 2.0, if you haven't found it yet, we've included a Plug-in Toolbar for Internet Explorer.  The IE Toolbar Plug-in allows you to access some of TextAloud's features directly from within Internet Explorer, making it easy to speak or capture text from web pages.

To enable the TextAloud toolbar, within Internet Explorer choose View->Toolbars->TextAloud on the Internet Explorer main menu.  This will display a new toolbar within Internet Explorer.  There are 5 items displayed in the toolbar:

1) The Speak button - If you highlight text on the displayed web page, the highlighted text will be spoken. If no text is highlighted, the entire page is spoken.

2) The Stop Button - Stops any current speaking.

3) Create Article Button - This button will create a new article within TextAloud from the selected text on the web page.  If no text is selected or highlighted, then the new article will contain all of the text on the web page.  This function is especially useful if you visit web pages to capture news stories and later turn those into MP3 files.

4) TextAloud Options Button - Gives you access to preferences and settings used by TextAloud.

5) Voice Dropdown - Use this to select the voice to be used when speaking from Internet Explorer.

So if you haven't tried it yet, check out the TextAloud 2.0 Internet Explorer Plug-in.  We hope to have other plug-ins soon including MS Word, Firefox and Opera Browsers, and more...

There is more information on this and other topics in the TextAloud 2.0 manual downloadable at

http://www.nextup.com/manual.html

If you haven't upgraded to TextAloud 2.0 yet, check for full details at

http://nextup.com/TextAloud/New2.html

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[5 - Enter to Win a NextUp.com T-Shirt]
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All you have to do to enter is send us an email to

newsletterdrawing@nextup.com

We'll draw a winner from entries received by Friday, February 18 to win a NextUp.com T-Shirt.  Thanks and best of luck!

If you find our products useful, please share the news with your friends and at  your place of business.  We offer Volume pricing with Site Licensing available to schools, organizations and businesses.  If you'd like more information on this or have questions about any of our products, please don't hesitate to contact us at

support@nextup.com

Thank you for your interest in our company & products. 

The NextUp.com Team
NextUp.com
The Power of Spoken Audio
http://www.NextUp.com

A Division of NextUp Technologies, LLC

 

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