I am interested in using a text to speech software program so that I can burn reading material onto Compact Discs to listen to while I am driving. In the course of my work, sometimes I have to drive some pretty long distances. Last week, a customer of mine burned a story onto a CD that I could listen to while making the drive home from his town. I was very impressed that such a thing could be done.

My questions are: Can anyone recommend a text to speech program that is free or doesn't cost big bucks that I could download or purchase from a store? Also, are there any text to speech programs that a person should avoid? I am very careful about what I put into my computer and don't like a lot of extraneous stuff in it other than just the programs themselves.

Thank you!

Convert text to speech software for natural voice.

Let your computer read most documents with

Natural Voices and convert text to MP3, or text to WAV files

Text to speech software with Natural Voices-- Free NaturalReader (http://www.naturalreaders.com/)

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Any other ideas out there for program possibilities?

This is a good one with the company having a good reputation, the SW is $19.40 if interested, here is the site for full details on the App

Download Text to Speech Reader Software (http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/index.html)

this is a good one with the company having a good reputation, the SW is $19.40 if interested, here is the site for full details on the App

Download Text to Speech Reader Software (http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/index.html)

Thanks for the information! I will check out the ones that have been recommended so far.

Any other recommendations from anyone?