One Day Sale - Text2Go converts text to iPod speech mp3s

[markgladding]

Sorry jbenny,

My previous post was poorly worded. I was actually trying to credit you as the first to pick up the inaccuracy in Bob's post.

In regards to your previous posts, you have provided a lot of really useful, factual information for people. Anyone who knows how to use regular expressions is a power user in my books.

Regards,

Mark Gladding.

[HarryT]

Hi Mark,

A few questions:

1. Can this software only be used with web sites or can it, for example, be used to read aloud an RTF eBook loaded into Microsoft Word?

2. Is it "real time"? ie, if I have an eBook which takes 16h to read, will it take 16h to create the output?

3. If I have a long file (such as an eBook) is there provision to automatically split the output into multiple tracks?

Thanks!

[markgladding]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Hi Mark,

A few questions:

1. Can this software only be used with web sites or can it, for example, be used to read aloud an RTF eBook loaded into Microsoft Word?

2. Is it "real time"? ie, if I have an eBook which takes 16h to read, will it take 16h to create the output?

3. If I have a long file (such as an eBook) is there provision to automatically split the output into multiple tracks?

Thanks!

Hello Harry,

In answer to your questions.

1. Text2Go can convert other sources of text to speech. You just copy it to the clipboard and then use Text2Go's 'Add from Clipboard' command. If you want a document in Word or Acrobat read aloud to you, you're better just to use either Word or Acrobat's built in speech commands. Note that you if you purchase a RealSpeak voice for use with Text2Go, you can use that voice with other programs.

2. The speech conversion is much faster than real time and depends only on the speed of your PC. For example my PC which is a couple of years old will convert text to speech at least 10x. With Text2Go, once you've started a conversion, you can browse to a new web page, select some text and begin another conversion. It will queue up individual conversion jobs and process them one at a time in the background.

3. There is no provision in Text2Go to do what you suggest. However it's a good idea and I will look at how to add that for a future release. What I tend to do is to convert a chapter at a time which will result in one track per chapter. I group them all together by creating a Play list for eBook title.

Regards,

Mark.

[HarryT]

Thanks, Mark.

[Bob Russell]

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