Making Drive Time More Productive

You're probably already aware of the availability of CD audiobooks from retailers and libraries that can be easily ripped to MP3 for use on your audio player. Now text-to-speech software company NextUp has taken this concept a step further. They just announced version 2.0 of TextAloud which will "read" text into MP3 audio files that you can use with your MP3 player.

Theoretically you can "listen" to just about anything online: newspapers, eBooks and even (heaven forbid) work-related documents.

If you want to check it out, there is a free demo of TextAloud.

Also, even though the demo doesn't include it, you can get additional AT&T Natural Voices to read your docs. AT&T has several different male and female voice styles that do an impressive job on your text.

PS: here's this post read by the TextAloud Mary voice.

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