iSpeak - Text to Audio/MP3

by Fonix

Product Features

• Award-winning AT&T natural voices
• Drag and Speak technology; new text-to-speech voice technology
• Intuitive MP3 exporting capabilities; listening to MP3 files is now easier and more productive
• Listen to your email directly from AOL 7.0, Microsoft Outlook 2000, and Outlook Express 6.
• Automatically reads text copied to the clipboard or directly from Microsoft Word

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009ZLJH
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,451 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nobody home at this company, January 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: iSpeak - Text to Audio/MP3 (CD-ROM)

Voice is ok. But control tags to insert pauses in text don't work, even when you follow the documentation's simple recommendations. Nobody at the company is monitoring or responding to their website support email. Not hooked on Fonix here.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Disapointing, March 28, 2005

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R. C. Naso "video producer" (Taos, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iSpeak - Text to Audio/MP3 (CD-ROM)

This program is very frustrating and support is even worse. First of all it's huge. It takes around a gigabite of hard drive space to install. The program opens with the default voice (Mike) who sounds robot like and choppy. When trying to choose an optional voice, the program crashes every time. Then it will not open again till I reboot my computer. The manual is one 8 x10 sheet of paper. My Tech Support emails have been completely ignored, and no human phone contact is possible. The troubleshooting website was just as useless. There are better choices.
I have tried a few demo downloads from other Text to Voice programs that all worked very well. I'm sorry I didn't choose one of them vs iSpeak.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buggy, March 25, 2005

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D. Soriano "oddjob" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iSpeak - Text to Audio/MP3 (CD-ROM)

I bought this used so I didn't loose too much. But after discovering it's bugs and spending time to train the speech to say ms-dos and not Missisippi duce, it all came down to trying another software. I've tried this one Windows Me and XP both would same issue with the software staying minimized on the task bar. I was unable restore to maximized position on the screen. Buyer beware.