View a PDF file for this press release TextAloud most recently proved its usefulness to Warren Scharbert and his father, Don Scharbert of Joliet, Illinois. Don Scharbert is an active and knowledgeable longtime computer user with macular degeneration in one eye and a detached retina in the other. This leaves him with limited vision, and with screen magnifiers and other tools an increasingly necessary, frustrating part of life -- pages that might take seconds or minutes for sighted viewers, may take Don hours to read by magnifier. His son sought a better solution for him -- and found TextAloud, which not only integrated flawlessly with his father's existing PC programs, but quickly proved itself to be an invaluable support for Don's love of computing, bringing the web, e-mail, and more into spoken audio. An award-winning program that converts text into spoken audio for listening on a PC or laptop, TextAloud can also save text to audio files for playback on portables like the iPod®, PocketPC®, and a wide range of other devices. Priced at just $29.95, TextAloud is simple for anyone with a PC, and has become popular for the visually impaired, who are increasingly turning to the program as their main source of Text to Speech. As a computer user who enjoys everything from reading e-mail to surfing the web, despite the difficulties posed by his disability, Don Scharbert was delighted to discover TextAloud. Like many with visual disabilities, Don had tried and been disappointed by several other high-end programs, including one created to work as a magnifier and reader, which crashed his NetZero High-Speed and was incompatible with many of his PC's configurations. By contrast, TextAloud was able to integrate directly with Internet Explorer, and worked like a dream. This instantly simplified such tasks as surfing the 'Net, visiting his Church's website, and reading his e-mail. "TextAloud has made the Internet enjoyable again," Don comments. "You just highlight the text and press Play -- can't get much simpler than that!" TextAloud also enables Don to read newsletters, online documents and PDFs with remarkable ease and quickness, even changing the voices depending on his mood. "Most of all, I'm so happy to be able to get my daily e-mails from friends and family again," he adds. "Before you spend lots of money on a text reader that promises the moon, try TextAloud, because it does what it says efficiently -- and without glitches." A free download trial of TextAloud is offered from the NextUp.com website.
About TextAloud NextUp.com also offers TextAloud with optional premium voices from AT&T Natural Voices (TM), NeoSpeech (R), Nuance (R), Acapela (R) and Cepstral (R) for the most natural-sounding computer speech anywhere. Available languages include US English, UK English, Indian Accent English, Scottish Accent English, French, Canadian French, Latin American Spanish, Castilian (European) Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch, Belgian Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, and Arabic.
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