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This app reads documents for you and pronounces the text in a choice of voices. You can save the audio to file. And it is very easy to start, stop and select another voice, and change the speed of reading. Nice for kids, great writing tool, for presenters and as a media production utility.

Features & Benefits
• Open Microsoft Word documents, Rich Text, HTML, Open Office, and many other types of text files.
• Read text selected within other applications from the "Services" menu.
• Change speed of reading to your preference.
• Fine-tune the text with Voice Coach (rate, volume, pauses, etc).
• Export audio to AIFF or AudioBook format.
• Save your document to Rich Text Format, or to plain text file.
• Check your spelling in many languages, you can mix languages in the same file.
• If you use more than one foreign language on the Mac, then you can select the order of your preferred set in the Language & Text panel of System Preferences. Read4me will use this preference in its speech panel to sort, so voices can be selected based on their major language. Dialects are grouped together.