VERY IMPORTANT: To use the additional voices and languages, you must install the voice components found here. Due a conflict in SAPI 4.0a, it is suggested that you do not install the voices from Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engine 4.0 (Mary, Sam, RoboSoft, Mike). If you want to use these voices, install the Microsoft SAPI 5.1 or Microsoft SAPI 5.1 voices for XP.

Be sure that you have installed Microsoft SAPI 4.0a runtime. It may require that you reboot after installation even if it doesn't ask it.

In order to get all the L&H voices to work in Text-to-WAVE, if you mistakenly installed Microsoft Speech Engine 4.0, not only should you remove it in Control Panel / Add Remove Programs, but also the L&H programs as well and then reinstall the L&H engines after they have been removed.

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New in version 4.0?

• Native support for web pages and HTML files
• Native support for PDF text documents
• Support large files and Word or RTF text documents
• New tele-prompter display style of text currently being read
• Improved support for voices in SAPI 4.0a and SAPI 5.1
• Prompt for update the text if the source file have changed
• Improved program's graphical user interface
• Autocomplete files in file name box
• New pronunciation and ignore word lists editor

• New option to minimize to system tray and clipboard monitor
• Convert text to OGG, MP3 and WAV
• Speak text from command line using -t"Text"
• Minimize to system tray using the command line parameter /tray
• New installer/uninstaller
  Includes Lame MP3 Encoder 3.95.1

• Support for voices using Microsoft SAPI 5.1
• Compact SAPI 5.1 installers for Windows XP and 2000/NT/Me/9x
• Redesigned the user interface
• Highlight text while speak to make reading easier
• Speech can be paused, continued or restarted
• Faster conversion of text-to-speech using SAPI 5.1
• Compatible with over 150 TTS voices/17 languages using Microsoft SAPI 4.0a runtime
• Includes a special version of Text-to-WAVE to display Unicode characters. It requires the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library

• Includes LAME 3.93.1.
• Updated voices.txt with the new Infovox Destkop voices.
• Fixed the voice pitch.
• Added support for Unicode text.

• Drag & drop a file and read the file instantly in preview mode (Text-WAV2.exe).
• Added support for read URL using https:// and ftp:// protocols
• Added workaround for L&H TruVoice engine, that does not close the WAVe file when finish.

• New read text buttons (Play/Stop) play files, web sites and entered text.
• Support for Lucent TTS voices: (English US, Spanish, French, German)
• Small fixes and better integration with Agent Reader.

• Now can convert to WAV/MP3 any text entered directly, in addition to conversion of local and Internet files.
• Click on Input/Output file label to open the file.
• Use wildcards to process all files in a directory.
• Updated voice file with support for 5 new languages (through Infovox TTS): Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic

• Convert local text, html, Word documents and download directly web pages from the Internet.
  
• Command line parameters for conversion from a batch file.
  
• Convert text files to WAVE or MP3.
  
• Support for more than 150 voice types in 17 different languages: English (US and British), Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Koran, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Czech
  
• Use ignore files and pronunciation lists from Agent Reader.