2nd Speech Center converts any text into spoken words or even MP3/WAVE audio files. 2nd Speech Center is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen. In addition to text, 2nd Speech Center also allows you to convert text to MP3 or WAVE files for listening later with your portable MP3 player. 2nd Speech Center supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages.

2nd Speech Center can monitor the Windows Clipboard and automatically process its contents. This feature makes it easy to read web pages, e-mail messages, documents and much more. Furthermore, 2nd Speech Center is integrated with many timesaving and useful features, such as talking reminder, talking alarm clock and powerful command lines for advanced users. And don't worry, the intuitive VCR style user interface is very easy to use.

Multiple Output Modes:
· Output synthesized speech either to your speakers or to audio files. Choose between WAV and MP3 audio file formats.

Open and Read Various File Formats:
· Read/convert Word files (.doc)/PDF files (.pdf)/EMail files (.eml)/RTF files (.rtf)/HTML files (.htm;.html) directly
· Handy text-to-speech toolbar for Internet Explorer.

Floating Bar:
· Pronunciation Corrections backup/restore.

Alarm & Reminders:
· Just as an alarm clock, 2nd Speech Center can announce time to you every special interval depend on your settings. And 2nd Speech Center also maintains a reminders list to remind you of your important business.

Support Multiple Languages:
· Including American English, British English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc.

Powerful Command Lines:
· As an advanced user, you can use the command lines of 2nd Speech Center to do what you want to do.

Control Tags:
· Control tags can be embedded in the source text to improve the prosody of text-to-speech translation.

Configurable Clipboard Options:
· You decide how 2nd Speech Center behaves when your computer's clipboard changes.

Ignore Characters:
· You can ignore special character set when reading. It's useful if your document contains many annoying characters.

Configurable Global Hotkeys:
· 2nd Speech Center allows you to define your favorite global hotkeys to control 2nd Speech Center even in any running application. This feature is very useful for weak-eyed users.

Optional MP3 Quality:
· The "Output Sample Frequencies" and "Output Bitrates" options allow you to make a choice between the quality and the size.

Shockingly easy to use:
· It's a just a simple copy and click, that's it!

What's new in 2nd Speech Center 4.00.10.822:

New Features/Improvements:

Custom Voice List:
· Show/hide voices.
· Rearrange voices.
· Rename voices.
· Show/hide voices.
· Rearrange voices.
· Rename voices.

Pronunciation Editor:
· Enable/disable record separately.
· "Whole Words" option.
· New/modify dialog.
· Wider view.

Talking Reminders:
· Enable/disable record separately.
· Recurrence type option.
· New/modify dialog.
· Auto-naming.
· Wider view.

Typing Speak:
· Typing speak letter by letter.
· Typing speak word by word.
· Typing speak sentence by sentence.

Watch Clipboard:
· Ignore clipboard updates from this application.
· Now also detect unicode text in system clipboard.
· Tray icon for Watch Clipboard.
· The default waiting time of the Clipboard Prompt dialog changed from 9 seconds to 30 seconds.

New Commands/Menu Items:
· "Close Others".
· "Find...".
· "Replace".
· "Word Wrap".

Command Line Mode (ttscmd):
· Added a list audio formats command (/f) and audio format option (-f) for SAPI5 voices.
· /e changed to /v and -e changed to -v.
· Display index number when list voices (/v).
· Display more info when reading/converting.
· More detailed help.

Misc:
· Text to WAV/MP3 commands merged.
· Overriding the default audio output format by choosing different filename extension.
· All toolbars can be customized now.
· Allows to repeat answer for multiple confirmations.
· "Auto-launch at system startup" option.
· Uncheck the "Read the next document automatically" option as default.
· Show position tooltips while adjust speed, pitch and volume.
· The Playback menu changed to the Speech menu.
· The control tags moved to the Speech menu.

Features Removed:
· The speech engine built-in pronunciation manager.
· The "Gray editor when reading" option.
· The "Highlight word" option.
· Tray icon selection.
· The buggy auto-clear memory feature.
· The Splash window and corresponding option.
· The "Show Tip of the Day window at startup" option now unchecked by default.

Bugs Fixed:
· The "Stop" command works for all third party SAPI5 voices now.
· Unable to pause or stop when the current speaking was interrupted by clipboard reading bug fixed.
· System tray popup menu now go away normally when clicking out of it.
· Now window position can be restored correctly.
· Auto-rename instead of auto-overwrite for audio output auto-naming.
· "Add/remove .txt context menu commands" memory leak fixed.
· Speech engine out of range bug fixed for the "-v" switch of ttscmd.
· HtmlHelp bug on Windows 7 fixed.

Год выхода: 2010
Язык: Английский
Операционная система: Windows All
Таблэтка: Присутствует
Размер файла: 3.73