SayIt is the ultimate text to speech utility!
SayIt provides a simple and fun way to have text read aloud to you and to create spoken audio files of any text. SayIt supports non-English languages in OS X Lion.
- choose from over 10 voices, with further voices and non-English voices available for free download from Apple to OS X Lion users via System Preferences
- save spoken text to an audio file in AAC or AIFF format to share or add to iTunes
- modify the speaking rate to suit your preferences
- easy copy and paste of any text including from long documents
- supports additional third-party voices from cepstral.com, cereproc.com and assistiveware.com including non-English voices and regional accents
- tested for VoiceOver compatibility
v1.1 [Sep 19, 2011]
Features and improvements:
• you can now save in AAC format (compressed and ideal for iTunes and iPods/iPhones) in addition to AIFF (uncompressed and suitable for further audio editing or production)
• you can now adjust the speaking rate (words spoken per minute). rate adjustment is not supported by all voices
• you can now set your preferred default speaking rate
• additional keyboard shortcuts and menus
• window size and location are now remembered
• tested for VoiceOver compatibility
• bug fixes
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