ReadTheWords - Online Text to Speech Tranformation
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Reading aloud texts has been always a fantasy since the web started .Here is a website that will help you to read aloudtexts and much more online and all for free.
ReadTheWords.com is a Web 2.0 site that allows you to read aloud text ,pdfs ,word documents and much more.This service is still in a beta stage.You must sign up before continuing with transformation.You also get a demo app which allows you to transform a maximum 100 characters before signing up.
After you Sign Up you will taken to your account page.Click on “Create New” button to start creating.You have various options of text input.You are allowed to enter upto 80,000 characters in the text box.You can also upload a pdf or word document.You can ask to read a website or a feed URL.
You have a choice to select from 15 readers,3 languages - English, Spanish and French and even set the speed of Readings.Your recording will be available in less than a minute.After that you have a lot of options to do with it.You can listen it online at their site , download it to your computer,download it for your ipod,create your own podcast out of it or embed it on website or blog.There is a plugin for wordpress that allows you to easily embed it on your blog. 
Here’s an audio about Technoworld 
Althought ReadTheWords is a great service but being in beta stage it has many disadvantages too.You can not edit the reading once created.For unknown words like for e.g when I used an Hindi word - “ullu” meaning owl then it just spoke the characters individually whereas for names it could spoke them well.
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ReadTheWords.com
Have a Nice Day and Enjoy! 
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Melvin said:
this is intresting… i think i will look at it for some time…
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm -
Siddharth said:
all the best
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm -
Pallab said:
I dont really need this since Opera has Text-To-Speech built in (uses voice engine made by IBM).
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm -
Siddharth said:
this might be useful for you if you want to read a website or an e-book
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm -
Rajaie AlKorani said:
This would be really cool if all bloggers provided a sound format of their posts. Nice find!
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm -
Siddharth said:
thx
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm -
Pavan Kumar said:
Wow! That’s a very nice tool online…. But only two voices are available for test without registering….
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 am -
Siddharth said:
after you register there are 15 type of voices June 23rd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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Gaurav said:
Wow Sid Cool intro
June 25th, 2008 at 1:01 am -
Siddharth said:
thx broJune 25th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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Silki said:
This is interesting. I also mentioned it.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pm -
Siddharth said:
its gr8 to know we share same choices
July 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm -
Kevin said:
You can type your text to make speak or type this text to make sing…
August 30th, 2008 at 7:09 pm