Text Speaker's tutorial and user's guide are accessible from the interface and the Start Menu, and there's online assistance, too. Text Speaker has some notable extras, such as Talking Reminders and the ability to output finished audio files, making it a "virtual announcer." It uses Lernout & Hauspie's speech engine, so there are plenty of voices in all sorts of accents and languages available online. You can also configure it to pronounce (or mispronounce!) specific words in certain ways, for regional or personal needs. Changing the voice properties is so much fun it could be a time-waster, since the speed and pitch vary from so low and slow it's almost inebriated, to fast and high enough for cartoon characters. The program is easy to use: open your chosen document and press Speak, and the default voice, Microsoft Anna, reads it aloud in clear, slightly mechanical tones. Text Speaker's efficient interface resembles a word processor but with mission-specific controls such as Voice and Pronunciation, which activate pop-up configuration dialogs. You can configure the speaking voice to suit and download additional voices in a wide range of accents and speaking styles. It can read virtually any text document aloud, accurately, reliably, and pleasantly. Speech synthesis has come a long way since its most famous application, giving voice to Professor Stephen Hawking, whose iconic cadence still echoes in the latest and most capable voice generators, such as Text Speaker 3.14 from DeskShare.
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