If you would like a good text to speech program I would suggest that you look into "Balabolka"
DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM HERE - IT MAY HAVE A VIRUS
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http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm)
I downloaded from here:
https://en.softonic.com/download/balabol...nload?sl=1
and it is working perfectly!
Here a just a few of it's finer points:
Licence: Freeware
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
Languages: English, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Help Files: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
Portable Version: Portable Balabolka does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive.
A computer must have at least one voice installed.
Command Line Utility: The utility contains no graphical user interface and works only from the command line.
The application handles various command line parameters to be able to read text aloud or save as an audio file.
Text Extract Utility: The program allows to extract text from the various types of files. The extracted text can be combined into one file or/and split into few files. The utility works from the command line, without displaying any user interface.
Balabolka supports skins that allow you to customize your window appearance. 108 are available
The program can use SAPI 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform text-to-speech engines. All voices for SAPI 4 became obsolete; they are not recommended for installing anymore. Use the fresh versions of speech engines.
Balabolka can use Hunspell (hunspell.github.io). Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox.
Balabolka can use language modules from Microsoft Office 97/2000 for spell checking. If Microsoft Office is not installed on your computer, or you use the other version of Microsoft Office, you can download spell checking components from my web-site:
Balabolka allows to use the spell checking built in operating system. The Spell Checking API is available beginning with the Windows 8.
With all of this going for a "F R E E" software, why in the world would you want to waste your time and money on that other program.
12days, just saying!
