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Text to Voice conversion can at times be very useful when you have loads to read but you are way too lazy to read something. I wrote about a software called TEXT2ALOUD previously in my post titled [How-To] Convert Text Into Spoken Audio. In this article i will introduce you to yet another freeware called Panopreter.

Panopreter reads text file, rtf file, word document and web page in .htm format, it can read in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and more, provided such Text-To-Speech voice engines have been installed on your computer.

Panopreter converts the files into audio files with the format of wave and MP3. So you can hear your files with your audio media player, you don’t need to sit at the desk, with your eyes fixed on the computer’s screen any longer.

Panopreter is also a good aid to any language learning program. You install the Text-To-Speech voices for the specific language, then you can hear the files being read for you.

Because Panopreter reads with Microsoft voice installed on your computer by default, when you like to listen to other voices, you need to install the corresponding Text-To-Speech voice engine on the computer.

Windows XP users are recommended to install a third party voice to get a better reading, for the default voice engine on the Windows XP isn’t as clear as that on the Windows Vista.

Panopreter supports 2 types of reading, the first type is “Read file” which is the default, the other is “Instant Speak”, which speaks the text you have typed or pasted into the edit window.

Once you have downloaded and installed Pranopreter, select the text file you wish to be spoken and press Speak. You can even save the file to Audio.

By the way there is another service called ZamZar which can read PDF’s as well into Audio. Read about it in my post titled [File Conversion] ZamZar Allows You to Convert Text,documents and PDF to MP3 Format

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