I feel strongly that documents should be synced two-way between all the clients be it desktop, smart phone and webapp, not just in file replication but in playback position. The biggest improvement that I have asked for several times and still have yet to see implemented is syncing between Natural reader Desktop and the smartphone equivalent. Also you can utilize voices you have installed from other sources asides from the voices that Natural Reader offers. Some people may ask why not just use Mac OS's native Services and Voiceover? With Natural Reader 16 you have on-the-fly control over voice selection, speech speed, plus you still retrain playback controls, and it shows the text like 'captions' in a tiny but very functional window. it is basically the webapp but wrapped in an app container, the one exception is that the desktop app includes what was formerly known as the Floating Bar, which is now called the Miniboard and resides under the overflow menu 'More', a feature I use a lot to readback whatever text I've selected with my cursor in whatever app avoiding the need to cut and paste or download and upload. With Natural Reader 16, the desktop app is finally on par with the webapp. To use the text to speech to hear your text without recording it, choose Edit, Speech, Start Speaking in TextEdit (choose Edit, Speech, Stop Speaking when you’re done).Adamlogan's Experience This is my preferred software solution on Mac OS for text to speech. Double-click on this album to open it and play your recording.

iTunes will open in the background and your recording will show up in an album called Text to Speech. Select the text for your recording in TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.With Services selected on the left side of the pane, scroll down on the right side of the window and check the box next to the Text category.This will open the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of the Keyboard preferences. Open TextEdit and choose TextEdit, Services, Services Preferences.To use Services to create a recording of a text file: Video Tutorial: Bigger Version (.mov, 5 MB).Using the Services feature built into Mac OS X, you can use the text to speech built into TextEdit to create a recording of your text you can play in iTunes or on your iPod. TextEdit, the text editor built into Mac OS X, includes a text to speech feature that will read back any text you type into the editor.

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