CoolSpeech explained

Developer:	ByteCool Software Inc
Latest Release Version:	5.0
Operating System:	Windows
Language:	English
Genre:	Text to speech
License:	Proprietary Shareware
CoolSpeech

CoolSpeech is a proprietary text-to-speech program for Microsoft Windows platform, developed by ByteCool Software Inc, founded in February 2001.^[1] CoolSpeech controls text-to-speech engines compliant with Microsoft Speech API to fetch and read aloud text from a variety of sources, including websites, email accounts, local text documents (.txt, .rtf, .htm/html), the Windows Clipboard, keyboard input from anywhere in Windows, and the current date and time. It can also bookmark a text source to be read aloud periodically or on-demand.

Features

• Listen to online news from any URL specified by the user.
• Read local text files, rich-text files and HTML files aloud.
• Convert a given piece of text into a spoken wave file (.wav).
• Listen to new messages from POP3 email accounts specified by the user.
• Listen to every word or sentence the user has just typed anywhere in Windows.
• Listen to text copied to the Windows Clipboard immediately.
• Schedule files, URLs and emails to be read aloud.
• Tell the current time and the date in different styles.
• Support all Microsoft Speech API 4.0-compliant voices.

Awards

• ZDNet "Hot File of the Day" on January 6, 2004.^[2]
• MSN "Featured Download" on February 19, 2005.
• SmartComputing magazine's "November 2007 Smart Choice Award".^[3]

Sister product

CoolSpeech has a sister product TextSound,^[4] which specializes in enhanced capabilities to batch convert text files into audio files, for users who need to produce spoken audio files in large volumes.

See also

• Speech synthesis
• Microsoft Speech API

Notes and References

1. Web site: Purchase CoolSpeech 5.0. www.bytecool.com. 2019-04-29. 2019-05-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20190514162418/http://www.bytecool.com/company.htm. dead.
2. Web site: Awards won by CoolSpeech . 2011-03-16 . 2011-01-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110128184156/http://www.bytecool.com/awards.htm . dead .
3. Web site: SmartComputing magazine November 2001 Smart Choice Award . 2022-07-06 . 2012-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120310002951/http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2F2001%2Fs1211%2F04s11%2F04s11.asp&searchtype=0&WordList=coolspeech . dead .
4. Web site: TextSound . 2011-03-16 . 2011-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110314043514/http://www.bytecool.com/textsnd.htm . dead .