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CLEMMONS, NC - PC users who turn to the Text to Speech software TextAloud for listening to text can now get dynamic how-to video tips, as well! Text to Speech leader NextUp.com has announced the launch of its own YouTube Channel, which features a growing assortment of helpful video tutorials on using TextAloud, NextUp.com's most popular software title.

"The launch of our YouTube Channel is an exciting opportunity for NextUp.com in serving the global community of TextAloud users," comments NextUp.com President Rick Ellis. "It enables us to share helpful video tutorials on an ongoing basis, while maintaining the opportunity for feedback and communication with those who use our software firsthand."

Priced from $29.95, TextAloud enables users to listen to their reading via PC, or by exporting their reading to spoken audio files for listening on most popular portable devices, from MP3 players to iPods (R), iPhones (R), and beyond. As the first instructional YouTube videos demonstrate, TextAloud is easy and flexible, and seamlessly works to help PC users listen to their reading from most text and document formats, from Microsoft Word (R), to ASCII, web or e-mail text, PDF documents and more. With TextAloud, users can accomplish a wide variety of tasks, from listening to reading for entertainment, to proofing or studying by ear, and more.

NextUp.com's YouTube Video Channel is located at http://www.youtube.com/user/NextUpcom. The first videos to appear on the channel demonstrate how to easily accomplish some of TextAloud's most popular tasks, from "Listening to PDF Documents with TextAloud," to "Listening to Word Documents with TextAloud," or tips on "Using TextAloud's Pronunciation Editor." The Channel also offers an overview of TextAloud's uses for users with visual or learning and reading disabilities, as well.

"The launch of our YouTube channel helps us to continue our mission at NextUp.com to help users 'listen and learn anywhere," adds Ellis, "as well as helping us to bring new, affordable and highly useful Text to Speech technologies and applications to users worldwide."

NextUp.com has several additional videos in the works now, and plans to launch additional videos to the channel on a regular basis in the months to come.

About TextAloud
TextAloud has been featured in The New York Times, PC Magazine, Writer's Digest, on CNN, and more. Hailed by critics and users alike, TextAloud is priced at just $29.95, and is compatible with systems using Windows (R) 98, NT, 2000, XP and VISTA. The program is available for fast, safe and secure purchase via /purchase.html.

NextUp.com also offers TextAloud with optional premium voices from AT&T Natural Voices™, Nuance®, Acapela® and Cepstral® for the most natural-sounding computer speech anywhere. Available languages include U.S. English, U.K. English, Indian Accent English, Scottish Accent English, Arabic, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Belgian Dutch, Faroese, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Castilian (European) Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

About NextUp.com
NextUp.com, a division of NextUp Technologies, LLC, provides award-winning Text to Speech software for consumers, business customers, educators, and those with visual or vocal impairment, or learning disabilities.

In addition to TextAloud, NextUp.com markets other innovative Windows software designed to save time and deliver vital information. NextUp Talker is an easy and affordable program that allows people who have lost their voices to use the latest in high-quality computer voices to communicate with others.

Note to Editors:

Evaluation copies of TextAloud are currently available upon request. To receive a review copy, or for more information on NextUp.com or TextAloud, please contact publicist Angela Mitchell at (904) 982-8043.

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