NewsAloud

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Publisher: NextUp
Price: $17.95
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NewsAloud personal news agent finds the stories you want, then reads them aloud in a natural, human sounding voice.

In this age of information overload, do you find yourself buried just from trying to keep up with the latest news? How about a solution that uses the unique power of the Internet to deliver personalized content to your desktop, or even better, to your portable device?

Stop plowing through email or spending hours surfing the net for the news that interests you. Instead let NewsAloud do it so you can listen while you work on something else, or get your news to go and listen while you excercise, commute, or get outside for a change.

Now available with the exciting new Natural Voices from AT&T. Get these voices on your PC and experience text-to-speech quality previously available only in a server-based environment.

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NewsAloud: for the crowd?

By reluctanttaoistmonk on Tue, 2008-02-26 16:00
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Pros: Great concept. Great for busy people. Fast News.
Cons: Improvement needed on User Interface and Sound Quality
It has always been a tiresome endeavor to scroll through news online because you can't easily sort through news as fast as NewsAloud does. You can even specify your news preference which makes...
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Still Not Ready For Primetime

By oldzkool on Sun, 2007-11-25 18:33
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Pros: Accurate conversion of text, simple interface, and outputs to WAV or MP3.
Cons: Awful voices, dated design, and expensive add-ons.
In the last 10 years, we've seen some amazing advancements in computing. Back then I was running a system with a 266MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and a 8MB video card. I'm now running a notebook with a...
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NewsAloud is barely understandable

By balance on Wed, 2007-08-08 19:11
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Pros: Works, a new approach to RSS
Cons: Microsoft Voices, old look
I've never really been a fan of Microsoft Voices, so when it comes to the reading rss feeds - it's not all that easy to understand. NewsAloud is a software that lets you listen to your RSS feeds - iy...
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Save your dime, read the bad rhyme

By mmalka on Mon, 2006-10-30 19:57
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Pros: I hope you won't mind, but I could not find.
Cons: Sounds as bad as my rhymes.
I wanted to write a few reviews. So I decided to try NewsAloud and see If I could listen to the news, while doing other things on the PC. There was no problem installing the tool, in a couple of...
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I Hear You Loud And Clear

By CaliforniaGirl on Wed, 2006-01-25 10:23
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Pros: To its merit TextAloud does in fact support both SAPI standards fairly well. The user can choose either of the two standards or specify he or she wants voices from both. If both are selected and there are some overlapping voices, SAPi 4 takes precedence, even though some features of Textaloud require a SAPI 5 compatible engine. The speech synthesizers and their voices are arranged in a neat two-level tree structure hich let's you preview or disable voices on a per synth basis.
Cons: When you select the WMA option, a message box pops up leading you to the necessary WMA download. While this is nice, the means of providing the information go against common usability principles. A keyboard user usually cursors through the format list and when arriving at WMA, the focus is suddenly taken away from the list, which prevents you from cursoring over the WMA choice should there be other formats after it.
Reading the text in TextAloud is a breeze. There's a dedicated button for it and a choice for the same thing in the Speech menu. The only thing you need to provide is the folder in which the audio...
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Just Hear Me Out

By BushSucks on Tue, 2006-01-24 10:07
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Pros: SAPI5 support is an essential feature many similar programs lack. Also, it's very inexpensive.
Cons: You can't easily skip forward or go back
Reading text files out loud and changing voices is very easy with TextAloud. The user interface has a familiar text box for editing and selecting text, from now on commonly referred to as the text...
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