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Text Aloud reads your documents to you

Text-to-Speech (TTS) software leader NextUp has released its Customer Survey, which focused on users who utilize its text-to-speech software TextAloud for online learning purposes.The 2005 Text Aloud Online Learning Customer Survey was conducted over a two-week period in May 2005, and turns a spotlight on one of todays fastest-growing phenomena -- online, or remote, learning. Using the power of voice synthesis to "speak aloud" documents, web pages, e-mail and more, Text Aloud allows its users to convert text seamlessly into spoken audio for easy listening, study, and comprehension. Thanks to Text Aloud, users can not only learn remotely on their PC, far from any brick-and-mortar school -- but they can now carry those lessons with them. Text Aloud saves to MP3/Windows Media files for easy playback on portables like the iPod, Rio, iRiver, PocketPC, and dozens more, for learning and enhanced study wherever they may go. With nearly 95% of survey respondents using Text Aloud as a vital part of their study routines, the Online Survey makes a powerful case for text-to-speech software as a valuable learning tool.

Previous Next Up customer feedback showed that Text Aloud users included a large number of people who were pursuing their studies via online learning institutions. NextUps new survey is designed to learn more about how TextAloud is helping its users get more out of their educational goals and pursuits.