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Our Comments

Review by FileBEAST's J.W.B:

Whether you are trying to learn a foreign language or simply want a body of text translated, Language Reader is the ideal application for the job. Using the utility is a simple matter of inserting the text to be translated in the provided space and then listening as computer reads it back in one of the selected foreign languages. The useful wizard and help features ensure that users never feel lost, and with support for 9 foreign languages as well as pronunciation assistance, language reader is one of the best free translating tools available. On the downside, each language pack requires its own download, which tends to be rather annoying. As one might expect, translations arenÂ’t always perfect, but more often than not they are close enough for this not to be a major issue. As a text translating tool, language Reader is a top performer and comes highly recommended.

Publishers Description

Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.

Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean.

You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.

FEATURES:

Read text (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, document) using Microsoft Text-To-Speech technology.

Provide a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.

Supported languages/voices: American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Korean.

Interface language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch.

Supported document formats: Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word (doc, rtf), Microsoft Excel (xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), HTML (htm, html, shtml), Text (txt).

Cartoon characters, Merlin, Robby, Peedy, and Genie, who serve you as Assistant powered by Microsoft Agent technology.

Easy-to-use built-in editor to edit text to be read aloud.

Download and install required Microsoft Speech, Avatar components when needed.