Opera Browser 8 and 9 , Vista Home, 600gb, 4gb ram

Opera in V 8 added a speech , text to speech 'engine' which worked. Then in version 9 it was improved and

it's, in my opinion, as good or better than any other I've heard.

But I can't always use Opera to read what I want. Like a PDF file .. and if I'm reading I can't browse as

going off the page stops reading.

Since I like the Opera reader voice is there a way that I can have my computer read in that voice?

I'm computer savvy so anything you point me to I'll know about. I've tried a few trials but none were useful.

They were not as good quality

They were hard to operate

They had so many features it made it hard to learn it.

Opera , in contrast, you highlight any text you want read and press 'speech' and it reads.

I would consider two things.

A. A web based reader. Where I could upload to a site and the site then read something to me. I'd be willing to convert

PDF files maybe if it worked.

B. A downloadable software.

Here's what I've tried and did not like.

Textaloud - words were not as clear as Opera and it was more trouble than it was worth for all of the button pushing. Not a lot

but every day over and over... Something simple , highlight and read, or read 30% of page .. etc would all work great for me.

ATT - Some product from ATT or uses ATT engine. They give you the samples and test setup but you pay for extras and the

quality of the 'extras' was bad. I don't get this.. when I listen to text spoken on NOAA or WWV or other text to speech they

sound good. Call 1-800-555-1212 and it reads things really well. I realize those were probably tweaked to handle the

100 or so words. But the 800-555-1212 works really well for every goofy word I could throw at it. *

There are others but they're limited. This one does 500 characters... not enough

http://www.text2speech.org/

http://www.nextup.com/

This was the one you paid for 'better' voices. I didn't care for them.

Thanks for any help. THere's a lot I have not mentioned because it's 'too much' I've spent perhaps 30 hours looking in depth

for something 'good' but nothing yet seems good enough.. I'll bet it's out there.

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It's 800 information . You tell it what you want and it reads what it has to you. If it doesn't have a listing it clearly speaks the

requested name back to you in its voice.