Sound - Misc. Sound Tools

WinAudio Basic v.1.18

WinAudio Basic is an attractive and extremely easy to use cd ripper and mp3 converter tools , it extracts digital music data from audio cd and encodes them into mp3, which enables you to make perfect copies of the original sound tracks as smaller sized mp3. It also supports wav to mp3 encoding and mp3 to wav decoding. WinAudio Basic supports freedb, which you can get the CD album, artist, track titles information over Internet. You can also submit your favorite CD's information to the freedb server to share with others music fans. WinAudio Basic supports full audio CD and MP3 control functions, which makes it can also act as a freedb-aware audio CD player or mp3 player.

TextAloud MP3 v1.459

Converts any text into spoken words. Reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and documents using your choice of voices. Unique Text to MP3 conversion can save your daily reading to MP3 files to download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Supports additional free speech engines for a total of 27 voices and 7 languages, plus optional AT&T Natural Voices.

TextAloud 1.373

TextAloud MP3 enables your PC to read text aloud in any of several available voices, including the new optional Natural Voices from AT&T Labs, which are among the most natural sounding computer speech systems in the world. It resides in your Windows tray, always ready to read aloud your text from email, web pages, and documents. You can listen immediately, or save to WAV or MP3 files to hear later at your convenience. Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural sounding human voice. Store your daily reading materials on MP3 audio files for portable MP3 players, Pocket PCs or Palms so you can listen while exercising, commuting or traveling. TextAloud MP3 is easy to learn so you can put it to work for you right away. Everything is user friendly, from the help function to the VCR style playback controls. It's never been easier to keep up with the information you really need.

X2CD Music CD Burner v.2.30

X2CD is a handy tool to make audio CD from MP3, WMA, AVI, DIVX, WAV, DVD soundtrack. It's also an audio format converter, player and CD to mp3/Wav ripper.