GhostReader Assistive Software Adds New Voices
From: PCWorld - 05/14/2008
By: Peter Cohen

ConvenienceWare / AssistiveWare announced the release of GhostReader 1.5, a
significant update to their text-to-speech software for Mac OS X. It costs
US$39.95, and the update is free for registered users.  

GhostReader converts text to speech and works in PDF, Word and other
documents, and can speak any selected text in any application. It works in
multiple languages and works with high-quality voices not included in the
operating system. 

The new 1.5 release adds new natural-sounding voices in Czech, Polish,
Swedish, and Finish. Existing voices have also been enhanced. A pronunciation
editor can now modify the way a word is pronounced (new abbreviations can be
added too). You can now directly export documents to iTunes and select
different iTunes encoding exports. 

GhostReader now works with DOCX and ODT documents, and the export to iTunes
feature now runs in the background. Responsiveness has been improved when
speaking selected text, or text below the cursor. Speaking selected text also
works in floating windows. Other enhancements and fixes have been made as
well. 

GhostReader requires Mac OS X v10.4 or later.

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