Free text to speech converter software for mac

A simple utility for creating searchable PDF files from text documents. Simply drag-and-drop any kind of text document on the application icon to quickly convert it to PDF. You may also drag multiple documents at once, or even an entire folder.
If you use Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger), converting is even easier with Automator! Check out Automator Action which automatically appears when the software is installed on Tiger. You can now convert text files to PDF files as part of your Automator workflow!

Major Features:

1. Built on the latest text to speech technology
2. Synthesize text-to-speech from any document format (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) using a variety of voices and languages
3. Read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools
4. Export the synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats in three modes (quick, normal and batch)
5. Create and modify conversations, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) in a document using an advanced text-to-speech editor
6. Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses) on the fly
7. Extract text from scanned documents and convert it to speech or audio files
8. Create custom pronunciations using a universal correction system
9. Save the created documents with all specified voice settings and entities (voice type, pitch, speed, volume, bookmarks, conversations, pauses, word highlighting) for future use
10. Pause, resume or stop the speaking voice
11. Tune the speech output using standard XML tags
12. Use a fully featured document editor with many text processing features (text manipulation, spell checker, print and print preview, find and replace, go to line..., customizable fonts, zoom capabilities, and document properties view)
13. Mark copied text to be automatically transferred and converted to speech
14. Access previously used documents from a high-capacity document history
15. Utilize a rich and fully configurable user interface (UI) equipped with customizable window docks, toolbars, a multi-tabbed document interface and a layout-saving framework

• Web integration improved.
• Language support improved.