Description

NaturalReader is not just any Text to Speech software program as it comes with realistic voices. With this software you can now easily make the pc read and record any text. It supports most text format files such as reading from emails, portable document files (PDF), it can even read from any website or webpage. Let us not forget it supports the popular document and text or rtf format. NaturalReader can easily convert all written text into audio files WAV or MP3 that you can listen later on from an iPod, portable mp3 player or CD player.

My Voice Diary

Description
My Voice Diary is a personal voice diary software. You can keep a voice diary or journal on your PC with it. The diary file is encrypted, so no one else can get it without your permission. You can also export your diary to MP3 file to share it with your friends.

Price
Free

Homepage
http://www.bobsoft.com/mvd/

Screenshots

Voice Recording with Voice Diary

Features

• Real-time compress.
• You can edit your old diaries.
• Compress faster.
• Record voice diary without length-limitation.
• Manage your diaries easily.

Funny Voice

Description
“Funny Voice” changes the pitch of your voice. Higher pitch will let you sound like a smurf, less pitch will give you a deep voice. All you need is a microphone.
Instead of your microphone, plug in the sound output of your tv card or your audio system and listen!

Price
Free

Homepage
http://www.graphics-tools.com/freeware/freeware.html

Screenshots

Change voice Pitch

Features
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Review #1
Funny to play with for a moment, but in the end it’s still ok :).

FreeTTS

Description
FreeTTS is a speech synthesis system written entirely in the JavaTM programming language. It is based upon Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Flite is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University.

Homepage
http://freetts.sourceforge.net/

Features
This release of FreeTTS includes:

• Core speech synthesis engine
• Support for a number of voices:
  • an 8khz diphone, male, US English voice
  • a 16khz diphone, male US English voice
  • a 16khz limited domain, male US English voice

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Description

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system. And full tools and documentation for build new voices are available through Carnegie Mellon’s FestVox project (http://festvox.org)