Text2Go

Text2Go is a software application that makes use of text-to-speech capabilities in order to convert written text into speech. In addition, it is able to transfer the information to your iPod.
The program also offers support for Internet Explorer and iTunes integration, making it really easy to capture, convert, and import speech.

Unobtrusive running mode

You can find Text2Go running quietly in the system tray area without disturbing your work. There are lots of features that you can tinker with so prepared to spare some of your time in order to discover how the program works. A help manual is available in case you want to find out more about the tool’s features.

Text-to-speech conversions

Text2Go gives you the possibility to read aloud text from a user-defined file from your computer or custom URL. Plus, it is capable of automatically monitoring the clipboard content and converting its content into speech.
What’s more, you are allowed to create iTunes playlists and quickly switch between them, use the title of the article to name the track, record the webpage’s address in the track comments, and delete tracks that you have already listened to.
The application can read any selected text from a webpage or an article, capture article information into its database and place them in a queue (which is processed in the background), change the voice by choosing between several preset options, as well as control the volume and speech rate for each voice.
Cleanup tools can be employed for processing text before converting it to speech. You are allowed to add a pause after reading articles, replace double-dashes with a pause, pronounce words enclosed in underscore with an emphasis, and insert a pause at the end of each article.
You may also take screenshots of the current webpage and add them as album artwork for the selected track or import custom pictures from your system. The tool lets you pause or resume the text-to-speech mode, stop the reading mode, and manually alter the articles stored in the database by modifying the text content and providing information about the title, author, source website, source URL, genre, playlist, and voice.

Final observations

In conclusion, Text2Go helps students or users who need to absorb large amounts of information. It gives you access to an interactive learning approach where you only need to listen to user-defined articles in order to memorize their content. The tool allows you to create audio files from text and save them on iPod devices on the fly.