looking for a program that reads text

[Jskid]

I've used Kurziwell before but don't like it. Is there any others that reads text with a more natural voice/pace and do any support pdf? Pdf isn't a big deal as I can copy and paste it into notepad.

 

[corkyg]

Assume you mean oral speech software? Or, scanware that reads text and converts to .DOC or PDF? If you mean speech (Kurzweill is a clue) then take a look at Dragon. Supposedly the best.

http://nuance.com/dragon/index.htm

 

[gevorg]

acrobat has a "read out loud" feature but it might not be as natural as you want

 

[Fardringle]

No software solution is going to be able to perfectly replicate the pace and inflection of a real person's voice, but the technology is definitely improving. I like Dragon quite a bit, but it's not cheap.

NaturalReader is actually fairly decent considering that it is free.

 

[tomatom]

? uh , Windows 7 , ?

not good , but you can tweak it a little .

Go to MS for more info