NewsAloud

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Publisher: NextUp Technologies
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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A piece of software that is absolutely useless

By Deepneau on Mon, 2009-07-13 15:54
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Pros: Does what it advertises, gets the news and reads it to you. Semi-easy to install. Easy to use.
Cons: Major overhaul of the voice is needed, sound like a clunky robot. The interface needs work, very unappealing/unprofessional. Just plain out right a waste of money and quite useless.
In these days, people usually get their news either from the TV or the computer. NewsAloud gives people a different alternative; the ability to listen to the news from any device, thus ridding the...
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Ready to read news!!

By Brannyt1 on Sat, 2009-04-18 15:01
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Pros: Easy to use Quick install Simple interface
Cons: Takes ages to download news! Irritating voice!
The installation is a piece of cake. And the file isn't that large, so it hardly takes up any space. Once installed there is a nice little introduction, in which you can choose your news! Enter your...
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21st century radio

By criticalgreg on Tue, 2008-06-24 02:00
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Pros: Cheap, easy way to listen to the news
Cons: speech is rendered poorly
When writing this review, I went back and read the description of the program. I nearly choked on my sandwich when I read that NewsAloud spoke in a "natural, human sounding voice." The unfortunate...
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Outdated and Complicated

By pplude92 on Mon, 2008-06-16 02:09
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Pros: Familiar for someone who still uses Windows 98
Cons: Bad Interface No Connectivity to internet Only support IPv4 stacks
The install of this program went as expected, without a hitch. The selection of feeds could have been layed out better, with an option for adding your own feeds, especially in this day and age. It...
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Wasting time searching for articles? This is your godsend!

By thecritic on Tue, 2008-01-08 14:04
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Pros: Ease of use. Powerful and personalized search capabilities. Only $17.95! Everything!! Buy now!
Cons: You dont have it yet!!!
NewsAloud personal news brings the hottest topics to you like an enthusiastic paperboy. This application will not only search for news based on your interests. It will also read it to you using a...
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Son of Sam...Microsoft Sam returns..kidna

By tehArtist on Tue, 2007-09-25 05:12
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Pros: Are you kidding?
Cons: tacky, outdated interface, Robotic voices
I was highly disappointed when I opened up the options of the demo and did not see the voice of Microsoft Sam, or at least one that was similar to it. Not much can truly be said of this disastrous...
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Don't be lazy

By aditya_92 on Sat, 2007-09-15 22:36
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Pros: Easy to use. Good functionality.
Cons: Unnatural voice. Crude interface. Too expensive.
At first glance, I was quite impressed by the functionality and usefulness of NextUp Technologies' NewsAloud. However, after reviewing 15+ text-to-speech converters, I wasn't much impressed by the...
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Worthless news

By mooizz on Fri, 2007-04-20 22:07
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Pros: A simple programme with quite a range of topics.
Cons: Practically useless. Just a news reader for $18 !.. Useless
Fianlly a software has been created for all those News readers who cannot read !.. So the question arises, What is the use of this software ?!.. The answer is nothing. News reader is one of the...
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Did Advil Create This to Boost Their Sales?

By Seth Busching on Tue, 2006-10-17 06:42
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Pros: - Wide selection of news feed topics
Cons: - Extremely limited news sources (only Yahoo and Reuters) - Entirely unattractive and confusing interface - HORRIBLE speech rendering
To say the least, this program is cumbersome. When you first open it, a prompt asks what news feeds you would like to receive. You are given a rather broad selection, ranging from Sports to Business....
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News Aaahh LOUD

By softpro on Fri, 2006-08-25 11:49
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Pros: Good for the visually challenged, has an option to view text and the web site containing the news.
Cons: The Broken voice.
I guess my grandmother wouldn’t mind using this tool since she has a hard time remembering where she keeps her glasses. This time she just would need to turn on ‘NewsAloud’. Lo and behold…...
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