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If you are teaching or learning language, you can improve listening and pronunciation using speech synthesis software. When people have access to Windows Vista or 7, they can install the text-to-speech Panopreter Plus on it. Then Microsoft Anna, the standard American voice, will speak and read files in English. It's a wonderful English learning method, in addition, Panopreter Plus converts speech into wav and mp3 files, you can import generated audio files to portable devices, and listen to them while wal
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, jogging or commuting to work.

It supports other languages too, such as Spanish, French, German etc. If you are running panopreter on Windows XP, you'd better install a third voice engine, for the default Microsoft voice on Windows XP is not as good as that on Windows Vista or 7. It is popular text-to-speech software, you can download it by search with google using keywords "Panopreter Plus", then you will get a lot of results.

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