Spokentext.net: Transforming text to audio

While reviewing several text to audio converters, I came across a site called spokentext.net.  The site allows you to convert PDF's, Word docs, text, PowerPoint files, news feeds, emails and web pages as an mp3.  Free accounts will allow you to convert files up to 125kb.  Upgrading to a paid account will allow you to convert files up to 20mb. 

This might be an option for those librarians who are interested in providing their clients with an alternate way to digest the daily news or keep up to date with other text-based material.  It would be interesting to see how many clients that are long-distance commuters or regular travelers would be open to this kind of information service. 

For those of you who offer this service already, what kind of feedback have you received?  What text-to-audio software has worked for you?

Comments

[Maark McKay]

Thanks for the post.

We have many students from all over the world using the site to convert text to speech.

Mark McKay
Designer and Developer of SpokenText.net