This is a software that reads aloud any text coming from a website, your email, word documents, by simply doing Select-Copy action in any windows based application. It also let you move into the text by phrases going back and forward.
It is very useful for learning and studying.
If you are studying some
other language than yours you can learn how to pronunciate words in those
languages.
Make your own audio books, for listening in your car or while working out.
Give your children the posibility of reading text from their favorite websites
and digital documents.
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Available Languages: All are for male and female < Select the Language from Here |
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Enter to the website you want to read. We use a web page but it could be your email, word docs, etc... |

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Using your mouse, select the text you want to be read aloud, then right click and select "Copy" from pop up menu. |

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"The Reader" will start reading aloud automatically, always it have the option "7 Read After Copy" set to ON |

WINDOWS 2000 Users: The Microsoft Agent Core Components are already installed on Windows 2000, so skip Step 1.
Download the above MSAgent.exe setup program and run it to install the core components. You may then delete the setup program.
The Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine provides speech output capabilities for Microsoft Agent so you can hear what the characters are saying through your sound speakers.
Download the above tv_enua.exe setup program and run it to install the TTS Engine. You may then delete the setup program.
If you've already installed this, you should see
Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice American English TTS Engine
in the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs list.
Additional Lernout & Hauspie TTS3000 Engines may be downloaded from the table below. You need to download and install both the TTS Engine and the Language Add-On for the desired Language.
For example, to install French Text-to-Speech, download and install both lhttsfrf.exe and agtx040C.exe
| Language |
TTS
Engine |
Language
Add-On |
| American English | tv_enua.exe | already installed |
| British English | lhttseng.exe | already installed |
| Dutch | lhttsdun.exe | agtx0413.exe |
| French | lhttsfrf.exe | agtx040C.exe |
| German | lhttsged.exe | agtx0407.exe |
| Italian | lhttsiti.exe | agtx0410.exe |
| Japanese | lhttsjpj.exe | agtx0411.exe |
| Korean | lhttskok.exe | agtx0412.exe |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | lhttsptb.exe | agtx0416.exe |
| Russian | lhttsrur.exe | agtx0419.exe |
| Spanish | lhttsspe.exe | agtx0C0A.exe |
The Speech Control Panel will add an icon to your Control Panel to enable you to list the compatible speech recognition and text-to-speech engines installed on your system and customize their settings for your use.
Only a fixed number or phrases will be readed.
A message will be displayed.