Amsterdam – 18 September 2007 – ConvenienceWare™ / AssistiveWare® today announced the release of GhostReader™ 1.1.1 text-to-speech software for Mac OS X. GhostReader 1.1.1 is Leopard-ready, now creates true bookmarkable audiobook files from text, offers better PDF import and enhanced performance on large documents. Through a partnership with Application Systems Heidelberg a boxed version of GhostReader will be introduced next week at the Apple Expo in Paris and will be available shortly throughout Europe in Apple Stores and other retail channels.
GhostReader is a Universal Binary, multilingual speech solution for Mac OS X that allows users to listen to their Word, PDF, RTF and text documents with naturally sounding voices in a language of choice. It also allows users to create their own personal podcasts or audiobooks by exporting to iPhone and iPod-ready iTunes tracks. Or, users can just use GhostReader to speak selected text in a handy reader window with play, fast forward, rewind, skip sentence/paragraph and re-listen to sentence/paragraph functionality. In some applications, such as Safari, GhostReader enables users to listen to text by just pointing the cursor at the text. Sit back and relax while GhostReader reads for you!
Website: GhostReader
ATMac comment: I have written about GhostReader before, and it’s definitely still improving in features and quality. It has been suggested that I could use it to produce spoken versions of these posts for a semi-automatic “Spoken ATMac” podcast, a suggestion I’m taking seriously. Would anybody be interested in something like that?
- ATMac
(Via ConvenienceWare News.)
Natalie Ford September 24, 2007 at 1:30 pm
You may already have covered this – do you know of any voice to text dictation software for the mac (OSX) that you can recommend?
Ricky Buchanan September 24, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I’m planning to write about dictation soon – it’s on the drawing board. The only current solution is iListen and people have very mixed results with it, some people love it and others can’t use it at all. If you check the links page there’s a mailing list for OS X dictation users, I suggest they probably know more about it.
Natalie Ford October 3, 2007 at 11:26 am
Thanks. I did already check the links page and searching for ‘dictation’ yielded no results, I am afraid. Maybe I am missing something?
Ricky Buchanan October 3, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I listed it under “speech recognition”, sorry. The list’s here: MacVoice Info Page
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