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Ease of Use for Poor Vision users.

Some thought has been given to designing controls that can be easily used for those with poorer vision, as you would expect in a text to speech application.

The text area has good contrast, black on white. Control buttons are quite large and well separated, with a slider to adjust voice speed.

Features.

Features on the free version include:
  • Changeable voices: Mary, Mike and Sam. To get the Mary and Mike voices you need the Bytecool download as well as the AT&T Natural Voice Reader download.
  • Variable voice speed, changeable only when reading is not in progress.
  • Clipboard text conversion to speech.

Download Sites.

AT&T - Natural Voice Reader. Free reader, software download is 10.2 Mb.

Bytecool - Voice Page: Mary, Mike and Sam SAPI5/SAPI4.. Free software and voices.

SAPI5 (for XP systems) download is 68Mb its a lot more than just the voices.

SAPI4 (for other windows systems) download is a more reasonable 7.3Mb.

Note that the SAPI5 (Microsoft speech engine software) with the Microsoft Sam voice only, is pre-installed on Windows XP.

Phone Tray: Additional Voices for WIn XP Mary & Mike.

A 4 Mb download I have yet to try.