Customer Reviews

iSpeak - Text to Audio/MP3

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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.

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.

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.