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GhostReader monolingual (box): £49.99

System requirements:

DVD drive
Mac OS X 10.4.0
933MHz G3/933MHz Intel Mac Core Solo
500MB HDD
512MB RAM

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GhostReader monolingual

The premier Text-to-Speech solution for the Mac

GhostReader: The premier Text-to-Speech solution for the Mac
GhostReader allows you to listen while your Mac does the talking in your language of choice
Save time
Convert documents to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone.

Convert text from news sites and emails to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone.

Multi-tasking: Imagine... that you need to get a million and one things done in your office including reading that lengthy document. Let GhostReader read the text to you while you focus on those other tasks.

Proofreading: Imagine... that you just wrote this great letter or college paper and want to be sure it is error free. Letting GhostReader proofread your text can help you catch errors that no spell or grammar checker can.

Studying while commuting: Imagine... that you are an actor and need to study your parts while in public transport or in your car. Use GhostReader to convert the text to iTunes and listen to it on your iPod or car stereo.

Listen to driving directions: Imagine...that you are driving in your car and you want to hear those directions downloaded from the internet. Use GhostReader to convert the directions to iTunes and listen to them on your iPod through your car stereo.

Overcome reading difficulties
Listen to selected text in any application with word or sentence highlighting.

Point the cursor at text in Safari, TextEdit, Mail or Pages 2008 to hear the paragraph below the cursor.

Helping struggling readers: Imagine... that you are a teacher and have a student in your class failing on tests because he or she is a slow reader. Get the student a copy of GhostReader to read the material.

Enhance listening and reading comprehension: Imagine... that you want to improve the listening and/or reading comprehension of your students. Use GhostReader to let them listen to web pages or documents in the language they are learning. GhostReader's word highlighting re-inforces their reading and listening experience.

Create educational podcasts: Imagine... that you want to make multimedia material to enhance the learning experience of your students. Use GhostReader to convert the text to audio fiels or iTunes tracks and import these into GarageBand as a sound track for your podcast.

Improve pronunciation of foreign languages
Listen to text on foreign web sites in an interactive reader window.

Type foreign text in a new reader window to hear the pronunciation.

Features:

Reads Text, Word, HTML, PDF and RTF files aloud with optional word highlighting
Converts text to audio files or iTunes tracks
Speaks selected text in almost any application using the tool palette or a keyboard shortcut
Speaks text below the cursor in Safari
Includes high quality voices in a language of choice (only for use with GhostReader)
High quality voices: American English, British English, Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Español Latinoamericano, Français, Français Canadien, Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk, Português, Svenska, Vlaams.
Medium quality voices: Cestina, Íslenska, Português brasileiro, Türkçe, Suomi.