Published by Bas Meijer on 2024-08-12
Read4Me Overview
What is Read4Me? Read4Me is a text-to-speech app for Mac that reads text out loud, saves to audio, and can even save e-books as AudioBooks. It has a variety of voices in 27 languages and English dialects, and allows users to embed pauses, pitch, and rate changes into their text with the Voice Coach feature. Read4Me also functions as a text editor with spell check, printing, and saving to Rich Text Format and Plain Text. It can read various formats of documents and is useful for teaching, rehearsals, language study, and proofreading. However, some features may not work properly with certain speech engines or 3rd party voices. The app uses code from libsox licensed under LGPLv2.1.
1. Read4Me will speak text in a variety of voices in 27 languages and also English dialects such as British, Irish and Scottish, using optional installs of Windows OSX.
2. Available are high quality voices for Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
3. Voice Coach is a unique feature of Read4me that allows you to embed pauses, pitch & rate changes into your text.
4. Read4Me reads text out loud, it can save to audio, and it can even save e-books (ePub) as AudioBooks so you can listen on the go! Use Read4Me for teaching, rehearsals and language study.
5. Listen to various formats of documents: Microsoft Word, plain text, Open Office, RTF, HTML and DRM-free ePub books, and save them all as AudioBook.
6. Tagging is not always fully supported by all voices, but the classic voices can even sing with this feature (almost), other effects work best on the novelty voices.
7. You might see 'iVoxSynth' or 'CereVoice3Synthesizer' in crash reports when you use certain features like tagging, don't blame Read4me.
8. Actually it is a text editor with spell check, printing, saving to Rich Text Format as well as Plain Text.
9. Many voices have been added or updated in the latest version of Windows OS X.
10. There is no guarantee that 3rd party voices, like InfoVox or Cepstral work properly.
11. Read4Me is independent of speech engine, some engines deliver more features than others.
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