Audio Reader XL is a full-featured and easy-to-use text-to-speech software, developed by IN MEDIA KG from Germany. It can convert text content from various formats of documents (such as DOC, PDF, eBooks, HTML, etc.), emails, and even websites into speech, and read it out directly or save it as an audio file in MP3 format.

If you like to read novels or e-books on a computer, long time of looking will make your eyes feel very tired and affect your eyesight. In this case, you can use a tool like Text Speaker to read the novel out, and listen to it instead of reading it, thus freeing your eyes and hands to do other things while listening to the novel. Alternatively, you can convert the text content to audio file for collection or play it elsewhere.

TextAloud is a classic and useful multimedia application based on the speech synthesis technology. It's ideally suitable for people with dyslexia or loss of speaking ability, as well as anybody who likes to listen to text content or often needs to read materials out. It is able to convert the text in any application into a naturally sounding voice or audio file. It runs in the system background, waiting for users to call it to read the text in an Email, Web page, or any other files on your computer whenever necessary.

ScriptVOX Studio is an easy to use TTS (text-to-speech) application specially designed for writers to create media presentations. They can use it to write stories or to import scripts, and then hear them as voiceover, along with image content input or other customizable narrators/actors.

The traditional desktop dictionary tools (such as Lingoes, Babylon, etc.) have become more and more bloated, and their translation efficiency is getting lower and lower. QTranslate is a versatile free and excellent multi-language translation tiny app from Russia. It is based on multiple online translation engines and makes its UE achieve an extreme. Depending on compact and simple UI, powerful and fast translation, it has grown into a new favorite among all translation tools.