Mariner announces Narrator text to speech program

Adding even more functionality to their suite of programs for the creative writer, Mariner today announced Narrator. Using the voices built into Mac OS X, Narrator offers a collection of tools that enable you to take text to speech. Just paste your text into the window or import an RTF, .txt or .doc file into Narrator and your letter, story—any text—is brought to life using voice synthesis. You can choose different voices, rates, pitches, inflections and volumes for each character you assign, giving your text a wide range of expressiveness.

And why would you want to do this? If you learn from listening, you can hear your notes read back to you. If you’re writing a script, you can hear the dialogue in different voices. If your working on a novel, you can export it to iTunes to listen to on your iPod to make sure what you’re writing is what you want to hear.

And if the built-in Mac OS X voices aren’t enough for you, Mariner has teamed with Cepstral to provide additional voices for purchase. Create your own little robot drama troupe.

Narrator is now available as a download only for just $39.95. More more details and system requirements, visit marinersoftware.com.

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