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The premier Text-to-Speech solution for the Mac

GhostReader allows you to listen to your Mac talking in your language of choice!

“The voices are extraordinary, so life-like that one can imagine what the speaker looks like. The program is a terrific value and is truly in a class by itself.” – The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing © 2007, Graphic Dimensions, Lauderdale by the Sea, FL, USA

“Your tool is brilliant! It saves me so much time! I let GhostReader do my readings of concepts and documents over the car radio!!!” – Georg Schuster, Germany

“I listen to technical papers. I even put a tech paper on my iPod to listen to on the way home! WOW” – Grant Los, Canada

“I use the program to read to me while I’m working at mindless chores. Some of the voices are truly amazing. Love the program!” – John Thorne, USA

 

Save time

Listen to documents and text from news sites and emails on an iPod or iPhone. Create personal podcasts by converting your text to audio files or iTunes tracks. The possibilities are endless…

• Multi-tasking: Imagine… that you need to get a million and one things done in your office including reading that lengthy document. Let GhostReader read the text to you while you focus on those other tasks.
• Proofreading: Imagine… that you just wrote this great letter or college paper and want to be sure it is error free. Letting GhostReader proofread your text can help you catch errors that no spell or grammar checker can.
• Listening to documents over lunch: Imagine… that you are a college student and want to review the online lecture or your notes during your lunch hour. Let GhostReader convert the text to iTunes and listen to it on your iPod while enjoying your sandwich.
• Studying while commuting: Imagine… that you are an actor and need to study your parts while in public transport or in your car. Use GhostReader to convert the text to iTunes and listen to it on your iPod or car stereo.
• Listen to driving directions: Imagine…that you are driving in your car and you want to hear those directions downloaded from the internet. Use GhostReader to convert the directions to iTunes and listen to them on your iPod through your car stereo.

Overcome reading difficulties

Listen to selected text in any application with word or sentence highlighting. Just point the cursor at text in Safari, TextEdit, Mail or Pages 2008 to hear the paragraph below the cursor.

• Helping struggling readers: Imagine… that you are a teacher and have a student in your class failing on tests because he or she is a slow reader. Get the student a copy of GhostReader to read the material.
• Enhance listening and reading comprehension: Imagine… that you want to improve the listening and/or reading comprehension of your students. Use GhostReader to let them listen to web pages or documents in the language they are learning. GhostReader’s word highlighting re-inforces their reading and listening experience.
• Studying while commuting: Imagine… that you are a student and need to memorise the professor’s notes while in public transport or in your car. Use GhostReader to convert the text to iTunes and listen to it on your iPod or car stereo.
• Create educational podcasts: Imagine… that you want to make multimedia material to enhance the learning experience of your students. Use GhostReader to convert the text to audio files or iTunes tracks and import these into GarageBand as a sound track for your podcast.

Improve pronunciation of foreign languages

GhostReader also helps you listen to text on foreign web sites in an interactive reader window. Type foreign text in a new reader window to hear the pronunciation!

• Improve pronunciation of foreign words: Imagine… that you are trying to learn a new language and want to be sure you pronounce words correctly. Use GhostReader to listen to text you just wrote or to web pages or documents in the language you are learning.

Features

• Listen to Text, Word, HTML, PDF and RTF documents (plus in Leopard: DOCX and ODT documents)
• Create personal and educational podcasts by converting text to audio files
• Convert text to iTunes tracks with the encoding of your choice: AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless
• Create your own bookmarkable audiobooks by exporting to iTunes tracks
• Speak selected text in any application using the GhostReader tool palette or a keyboard shortcut
• Simply point your cursor at text in Safari, Pages 2008, TextEdit, or Mail and listen to the paragraph below the cursor instead of reading
• Use the included pronunciation editor to modify the way a word is pronounced or to add new abbreviations
• Includes high quality voices in a language of choice
• Universal Binary (PPC and Intel) requiring Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 or later (fully Leopard compatible)
• Localised in English, French and German

Available voices

GhostReader includes naturally sounding voices in a language of your choice. Available languages include: (click on a link below to hear an Infovox iVox voice sample)

UK English voices Peter (male) Rachel (female) Lucy (female) Graham (male) Roger (male)	US English voices Heather (female) Laura (female) Ryan (male) Kenny (boy) Nelly (girl) Jane (female) John (male)	German voices Sarah (female) Klaus (male) Julia (female)	Dutch voices Femke (female) Max (female) Hilde (female) Jan (male)
Flemish voices Sofie (female) Jeroen (male)	French voices Alice (female) Julie (female) Claire (female) Bruno (male) Margaux (female)	Spanish voices Maria (female) Antonio (male) US Spanish voices Rosa (female)	Italian voices Vittorio (male) Chiara (female) Roberto (male)
Norwegian voices Olav (male) Kari (female) Trygve (male) Vegard (male)	Canadian French voices Louise (female)	Portuguese voices Celia (female) Brazilian Portuguese voices Marcia (female)	Greek voices Dimitris (male)
Danish voices Mette (female) Poul (male)	Finnish voices Sanna (female) Matti (male)	Swedish voices Elin (female) Emma (female) Erik (male) Ingmar (male)	Czech voices Eliska (female) Sabrine (female)
Polish voices Ania (female)	Turkish voices Ipek (female)	Arabic voices Salma (female) Youssef (male)	Russian voices Alyona (female)

Note The ConvenienceWare voices only work in the ConvenienceWare applications which have been licensed to use those voices. If you need system-wide voices that can be used in any Mac speech using application including TextEdit, Preview, VoiceOver and, of course, GhostReader you should take a look at Infovox iVox.

Voice Licensing

Please observe the following restrictions on voice output and files: Acapela Group only permits personal use of the voices and generated audio files (publication of personal content on the web is ok). Commercial use is prohibited in all cases. The School and Classroom licences permit educational use in the school or classroom, but do not allow publication of audio files outside the classroom or school (not even for free).

Minimum System Requirements

• Apple Mac
  
  • Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (fully Leopard compatible)
    
  • 933MHz G3/933MHz or Intel Mac Core Solo (Universal Binary compatible)
    
  • 512 MB RAM
    
  • 500 MB Hard drive space
    
  • DVD drive

View/Download

• GhostReader Trial version

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Infovox iVox and GhostReader - UK English Bundle - Single User Licence	Includes 5 UK English voices
	AWAW-IIGR-CD1-EN-GB	DVD-ROM	Mac OS X	$179.00	$0.00
	GhostReader Monolingual - UK English - Single User Licence	Includes 5 UK English voices
	AWCW-GR1-CD1-EN-GB	DVD-ROM	Mac OS X	$79.00	$0.00