1. Features

2. Awards

3. Sister product

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

CoolSpeech is a proprietary text-to-speech program for Microsoft Windows, developed by ByteCool Software. It 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.

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.^[1]
• MSN "Featured Download" on February 19, 2005.^[1]
• SmartComputing magazine's "November 2007 Smart Choice Award".^[2]

Sister product

CoolSpeech has a sister product TextSound,^[3] 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.

See also

• Speech synthesis
• Microsoft Speech API

References

External links

• {{Official website|www.bytecool.com}}

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