Hear Your Documents Read in Spanish, German, or French
Advanced text-to-speech technology reads your documents to you in a human-sounding voice. Many people would like to hear text that is not written in English.
Text Speaker can read documents in many languages when the correct voice is installed. This is extremely useful to anyone who speaks multiple languages. It's also a great way to learn a foreign language.
Native Language Voices
A
voice (also called a “voice font”) is the part of text-to-speech software that determines how to pronounce words based on letter combinations. See the article
Text to Speech: Talking Computers and Why We Love Them for more about voices and how text to speech software works.
Different languages have different ways to pronounce words. For instance, manual is pronounced “man yoo ul” in English and “man wal” in Spanish. An English text-to-speech voice reading Spanish text won't even be close to how a native speaker sounds. A native Spanish language voice will read the text with the same pronunciation as a person who speaks the language.
You can install voices that are designed to read naturally and correctly in different languages. DeskShare offers high-quality professional voices in English, Spanish, German, and French.
Educational Uses
One of the challenges when learning a foreign language is pronouncing it correctly. No two languages pronounce word and sounds exactly the same way. Native language voices, especially the high quality professional voices, give you a fast, easy-to-use way to hear any text pronounced in the correct manner.
If you are new to a language, it can be hard to understand when someone speaks quickly. Text Speaker lets you change the speed change the speed of the reading, so that a beginner can listen to text at a slow enough speed to understand. Advanced learners can speed up the reading. By adapting the difficulty to the student's skill, you speed up the learning process.
No More Language Barrier
If you're serious about learning a new language or hearing a document spoken in your own native tongue, download Text Speaker and one of the professional native language voices.