CoolSpeech

CoolSpeech is a proprietary text-to-speech program for Microsoft Windows platform, developed by ByteCool Software Inc, founded in February 2001[1]. CoolSpeech controls text-to-speech engines compliant with Microsoft Speech API to fetch and read aloud text from a variety of sources, including websites, email accounts, local text documents (.txt, .rtf, .htm/html), the Windows Clipboard, keyboard input from anywhere in Windows, and the current date and time. It can also bookmark a text source to be read aloud periodically or on-demand.

CoolSpeech
Developer(s)ByteCool Software Inc
Stable release
5.0
Operating systemWindows
Available inEnglish
TypeText to speech
LicenseProprietary Shareware
Websitewww.bytecool.com

Features
  • Listen to online news from any URL specified by the user.
  • Read local text files, rich-text files and HTML files aloud.
  • Convert a given piece of text into a spoken wave file (.wav).
  • Listen to new messages from POP3 email accounts specified by the user.
  • Listen to every word or sentence the user has just typed anywhere in Windows.
  • Listen to text copied to the Windows Clipboard immediately.
  • Schedule files, URLs and emails to be read aloud.
  • Tell the current time and the date in different styles.
  • Support all Microsoft Speech API 4.0-compliant voices.

Awards
  • ZDNet "Hot File of the Day" on January 6, 2004.[2]
  • MSN "Featured Download" on February 19, 2005.[2]
  • SmartComputing magazine's "November 2007 Smart Choice Award".[3]

Sister product

CoolSpeech has a sister product TextSound,[4] which specializes in enhanced capabilities to batch convert text files into audio files, for users who need to produce spoken audio files in large volumes.

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See also

References
  1. "Purchase CoolSpeech 5.0". www.bytecool.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  2. Awards won by CoolSpeech
  3. SmartComputing magazine November 2001 Smart Choice Award
  4. TextSound
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