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There are some instructions at viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6556 on how to transfer TextAloud articles and dictionaries to a new computer.

We currently do not have a way to export and import settings, we'll try to get this in a future update.

TextAloud does not currently support the Microsoft Mark voice, there is more detail on the issue at viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8498&p=20436#p20436

We hope to support Microsoft Mark (and other Microsoft Mobile voices) in a future version of TextAloud

If you're using the TextAloud extension for Chrome, one way to handle this is in the extension, set the voice to "TextAloud Voice". You can also configure the voice used by the TextAloud floating toolbar like this. Then set the default voice in the TextAloud application. You can use the Se...

Not sure what the problem could be. Would you please duplicate this problem and send a TextAloud problem report? From the TextAloud menu click Help -> Support -> Report A Problem and just mention this issue briefly in the problem report text. The problem report should give me a better idea of what i...

We don't have a 'stop' shortcut available in the Word extension because you can configure a system wide hotkey in TextAloud that will work as a stop button whenever TextAloud is speaking, regardless of how speaking was started. In the TextAloud application, click Control Center -> Settings, and in t...

TextAloud currently runs on Windows only, the only way to run TextAloud on a Mac is to use a Windows virtualization product.

We hope to develop a Mac version in the future but there no estimate on availability now.

Can you let me know what antivirus you're having the problem with? I may need to contact them and see if we can get whitelisted.

If you don't want to post the information you can email me at jim@nextup.com

If you send an email to our help desk they should be able to help with this issue. Just send an email to support@nextup.com

It is possible that your download links have expired. If you send an email to support@nextup.com they should be able to help

Hi JR, Currently, changing the voice using the Voice Toolbar changes the voice only for the current article. You do need to change the default voice using the Settings dialog. A nice enhancement here would be to have an option and/or prompt to change the default voice when using the voice toolbar. O...

We have Korean and Japanese voices available for purchase from Acapela. If you're interested you can purchase the voices at https://nextup.com/acapela.html

If you have any questions related to purchasing please send an email to support@nextup.com and they'll help you out.

Please send an email to support@nextup.com for information on voice licensing

AT&T Natural Voices are voices you can use with TextAloud. If you purchase TextAloud alone, the product does not include voices, it will only be able to use voices you already have installed, including the Microsoft Sapi5 voices included with Windows. When you purchase TextAloud you have the opt...

There is an option in TextAloud settings you can use to choose different audio file formats. From the Control Center menu click Settings, and in the Settings dialog, select Audio File Options in the left panel. At the top of the Audio File Options panel you can set various audio file settings, inclu...

If you're hearing a small pause at voice change tags we have no control over it, the voice change tags are actually processed by the SAPI5 speech interface. Let me know if that is not the problem.

If this is regarding your other post about voice changes for text in parentheses, make sure you are running the current version of TextAloud (4.0.62). Visit https://nextup.com/download.html and download the 4.0.62 installer. If that doesn't help send me an email at jim@nextup.com and I'll give you i...

Hi Reggie There are some fixes in fairly recent versions of TextAloud for this speech error when using the option to change voices for text in parentheses. Make sure you're running the latest version, 4.0.62. If you're running an older version visit https://nextup.com/download.html and download the ...

The best thing to do if you need download links for voices you've purchased is to send an email to support@nextup.com

TextAloud does not currently have native support for writing aac / m4b audio files. You can configure it to work using the Custom Encoder feature of TextAloud, which points TextAloud's audio encoding function at any command line tool that can convert wav / pcm audio to the format you want. The comma...

If you give it another try now activation should work. Let me know if you're not able to activate.

This error usually means the system clock on your pc does not agree with the clock on our license server. If the clock on your system happens to be off, correcting the system time should fix it. If you can't get the activation to work email me at jim@nextup.com and I'll help you with manual activati...

The best thing to do if you're moving TextAloud to a new machine is just install TextAloud on the new machine, using a normal TextAloud installer, then copy your dictionaries over. So on the new machine, install TextAloud using the installer at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe If you've purchased vo...

Sorry but there is currently not a way to use TextAloud from the command line

Thanks for the reaching out to be a beta tester. We currently do not have any beta testing in progress. We'll post an announcement in this forum when we begin a beta or need some help with testing.

You can set the default voice in TextAloud Settings. From the main menu, click Control Center -> Settings. Then in the left pane of the settings dialog, click Voice Options. On the Voice Options panel select the vendor for the voice you'd like to use as the default, expand the entry to display avail...

Are you referring to the system wide hotkey "Change Default Voice"? If thats the hotkey you're referring to, that hotkey just allows you to quickly change the default voice TextAloud uses for speaking text. If you're trying to use voice change tags in the TextAloud main window, you can cre...

It isn't possible to configure this now, but we'll look at adding this option somewhere in the main window in a future update

By default, both TextAloud 3 and TextAloud 4 write audio files to your Documents folder, and should prompt for confirmation whenever you create audio files. If you change the directory in the confirmation prompt, your change will be saved as the new default directory for audio files. You can configu...

Its possible that updating to the current version could make a difference. Try updating to version 4.0.59 using the installer at https://nextup.com/files/ta4.exe and see if that makes a difference. If updating doesn't help, duplicate the issue, then from the TextAloud menu send a TextAloud problem r...

That's correct. You can use the Microsoft voices on your web site, but licenses for voices we sell at NextUp are for personal use only.