I am sure all of you know how to read, each in their own language and even in some other languages. But there are some times when you would rather listen to the text in front of you being read out loud – for various reasons. The best reason of all is when the person in question is blind and can’t read any other texts than Braille texts. But the new technology allows them to hear the text turned into audio . Talking Clipboard 2.8.5.0 is such software application that is called text to speech and works with Windows on your computer or on any other device having an operating system and also able to read text documents. Most of the times the text files are converted into MP3 or WAV files that are easily read by your music player for example. You can use it to listen to your email messages when you go jogging or have the presentation read to you during a stroll in the park. This application can also be used successfully to listen to the right pronunciation of words when you learn a foreign language. Even if the voice speaking is not human and is synthetic, it resembles the human voice very well and the pronunciation is impeccable.
The interface of Talking Clipboard 2.8.5.0 is very easy to use and looks like a media player , having the same buttons that you can press – play, stop, pause , back or even jump to next, when the application goes to the next line in the text. It covers every kind of format which contains text fro e-books to email messages and PDF files or HTML pages. The word or words that are uttered at the moment are highlighted so that you can easily follow the text if you want to synchronize text and sound. There is one option allowing the user to remove advertisement from a web page for example and there’s the possibility to use bookmarks for the large documents.
This application is even able to read the documents that are simply scanned, not text documents per se and in this case it uses OCR. t can also be used for converting a big number of txt files into audio files at the same time. For those who use Talking Clipboard for leaning a foreign language there’s an embedded dictionary they can use to find out the meaning of a certain word and its translation in a certain language. You can use it in full screen mode to look like an e-book reader and you can also use it for correcting the eventual misspellings and grammar mistakes that can appear in the text and for many other things, too.
The bottom line is that this is a very useful piece of software and it can help many people. It was developed by Talking Clipboard Corporation that offers it now for free trial or even for sale for the price of $39.99. It has only 4.5 MB, is compatible with all Windows versions ans offers a wide variety of available foreign languages. If you are interested in more details and also other software utilities developed by this producer, just follow it on Twitter.11