What is Speaking Notepad 5?
Speaking Notepad is handy text editor with powerful text-to-speech capabilities. Speaking Notepad will read your TXT, DOC, HTML and RTF documents with SAPI4 and SAPI5-compliant high quality voices, different speed and pitches, read clipboard content, record texts into WAV or MP3 files and even read every word or sentence you are typing.
How Speaking Notepad 5 differs from previous versions?
 Full SpeechAPI 5 support
Multi-language interface support
Different visual styles of program
Record speech into WAV/MP3 sound file easily
... and much more!
Overview
Speaking Notepad is handy text editor with powerful text-to-speech capabilities. Speaking Notepad will your TXT, DOC, HTML and RTF documents, readme's, notes, e-mails and clever and interesting thoughts aloud. With its help you'll cope quickly with routine work at home or in the office. Just imagine, how much easier it is to listen to texts instead of reading them! Give a rest to your eyes! The program will read texts with SAPI4 and SAPI5-compliant high quality voices, different speed and pitches, read clipboard content, record texts into WAV or MP3 files and even read every word or sentence you are typing. That means you can control your typing aurally without looking fixedly at your monitor. Speaking Notepad is designed for those who value swift commodity in work combined with fascinating abilities and an interface which will delight your eyes. It will definitely become your best friend.
Before you buy Speaking Notepad please look through its main advantages over standard Notepad:
Make a present to your eyes
Your eyes are getting tired during long and intensive work. When you are staring at your monitor your eye muscles strains a lot. Such work at the breaking point of your eye capabilities may cause serious problems with your eyesight in the nearest future. Give a rest to your eyes with Speaking Notepad! Let computer read for you, and your eyes will tell you "Thank you".
Type text without looking at the screen
You are typing long text and constantly turning your eyes from keyboard to monitor to control what you are typing? Now you can concentrate only on work and your thoughts because Speaking Notepad can read aloud what you are typing.
Listen to e-books
With powerful bookmark management system Speaking Notepad becomes an ideal solution for e-books reading.
Record your speech!
Want to bring your texts to another computer in the format of a sound file? Want to learn a foreign language on your own? Want to prepare voice greeting cards? With Speaking Notepad it is as easy as one click.
Keep your ideas in one-click distance
Write down interesting thoughts and you'll never forget them. Click a button and Speaking Notepad will read your thoughts aloud!
You name it!
Speaking Notepad can be useful for many purposes. Maybe you'll find new innovative one. Guess an uncommon usage of Speaking Notepad and you'll get a 10% discount for one of our other products. For example, one of our customers told us that once he used Speaking Notepad to play a good April Fool's Day joke over his friends. He called them and Speaking Notepad read greetings to them with different voices.
And at last...
At last this is just a handy and speedy notepad with vast functional capabilities. We are sure it'll easily replace standard Windows Notepad... or even Microsoft Word!
Download additional voices and speech engines for Speaking Notepad
» Want to get high quality voices?
Cepstral® voices - are the best solution. At Cepstral®, Text-to-Speech (TTS) is the only focus. They make realistic synthetic voices that can say anything, anywhere, with personality and style. From the smallest device to large installations and high-end interactive media; Cepstral voices can bring fresh content to your ears, on demand.
Cepstral voices ideally fit Speaking Notepad! |
Main features
| | Handy notepad with speaking capabilities |
| | Supporting DOC, RTF, HTML and text files |
| | Recording speech into WAV or MP3 sound files |
| | Choose one of dozens of different voices |
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| Change voice speed and pitch in one click |
| | Powerful bookmark system |
| | Type & Read function |
| | SAPI4 and SAPI5-compliant voices |
| | Large number of visual styles |
| | Smart Spell Checker |
| | Efficient work with hot keys |
| | User-friendliness and handy interface |
If you feel that should have more features or functions, please write us - manager@QwertyStudios.com - and tell, what features do you want us to include into program. We can also create custom build of program with specific capabilities specially for your company or team.
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Additions for Speaking Notepad
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Language modules
Work with Speaking Notepad in your native language! |
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Visual styles
Choose the style of program and enjoy! |
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Testimonials
Speaking Notepad is a tool that will catch your attention for sure! Speaking Notepad is a software that speaks your text out aloud. Its features don't end here! You can save your text as a .WAV or a .MP3 file!
Imagine the kind of things you can do with a software like that.
For one you can use it for educational use. If you have some info on the internet, Speaking Notepad can read it aloud! Same goes with e-Books and long pages of info. Are typos your problem? Don't fear, Speaking Notepad is here! Now with a technology to read what you type. Every word! You don't even need to look up from the keyboard as you type.
QWERTY STUDIOS has come up with an ingenious product that is definatly worth a download.
Ashwin Yerra
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Screenshots
Here you can view screenshots of Speaking Notepad. Click on image to enlarge.
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Speaking Notepad main window
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Recording speech into
audio file window |
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Preferences window |
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Troubleshooting
Trouble: Program shows critical error after starting/during work/at exiting under Windows Vista. How to solve this problem?
Our answer and solution: The reason of the problem is Windows Vista security system for newly installed applications. To solve it you should allow Windows Vista to start Speaking Notepad after its first run.
And then you should allow Speaking Notepad to modify options.ini file whcih resides in Speaking Notepad's folder.
It is possible that other error messages will appear while working under Windows Vista. We try fix all known errors in new versions. By now we recommend using Speaking Notepad with Windows XP and earlier versions of Microsoft Windows.
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System Requirements
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista
32MB RAM, Pentium 2 266 MHz, 15 MB Hard Disk, Sound card
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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Q: What additional files does Speaking Notepad require?
A: Speaking Notepads requires Microsoft Text to Speech Engine, Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) and at least one TTS Voice installed in your system You can download SAPI 4 from this link and Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Amer. Eng. TTS Engine from this link. However, in normal situation you need not download them manully because Speaking Notepad's installer does this automatically.
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Contacts and feedback
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