If you ever wanted to convert text into audio files, specially those
copied text content present in your clipboard then we have
really useful open source utility for you, Read4Me.
Read4Me is small tool which read clipboards and also lets you to convert text
to MP3 files.
Read4Me achieves this by using TTS voice aka text to speech
service and voice which comes pre-installed on your Windows operating system.
Read4Me also provides hotkeys for different settings such as language and
speech rate. You can also copy paste text and listen to it as audio or convert to
wav sound file for future use.
Once you download Read4Me, you can launch
this app with just double click as this is portable utility. The user interface
has three tabs, Convert to MP3, Speak Text and Settings.
Under Convert to MP3 Tab you can specify the source text file
and other details such as where to stop with text document and meta data like
Album, Artist, year etc. for the mp3file generated using Read4Me. You can
also set the volume, language and rate.
Under Speak Text tab you can simply copy
past text and press speak button to instantly listen to it.
Settings tab offers comprehensive options
to set hotkeys for different operations such as you can definitely hotkey for
pause or resume speech, or go to next sentence etc.
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