TextAloud Nominated for Best Sound Program

NextUp.com announces that its text-to-speech program TextAloud 2.0 has been honored with a nomination by the 2005 Shareware Industry Awards.

A versatile tool that uses the power of voice synthesis to “speak aloud” documents, Web pages, email and more, TextAloud 2.0 was released in October 2004. Text is seamlessly converted into spoken audio, which can then be played back on a PC, or saved to an MP3/Windows Media file for easy playback on portables like the iPod, Rio, iRiver, PocketPC, and dozens more. TextAloud was nominated in the category of Best Sound Program or Utility.
 
“We’re delighted and privileged that TextAloud is up for a Shareware Industry Award,” comments Ken White, CEO of NextUp.com. “We worked hard to create a program that would fit the needs of a wide number of users, from consumers, to business customers, educators, writers, and those with visual impairments or learning disabilities, so this nomination is an honor to all of us.”
 
Created by the Shareware Industry Award Foundation (SIAF), the Shareware Industry Awards honor the best software titles using a shareware marketing model. The nominees each year are selected by a group of leading industry professionals, who vote on nominations and winners according to the merits of each software title. This year’s Shareware Industry Award winners will be announced on July 16, 2005 at the annual Shareware Industry Conference. For more information on the SIAF, the Shareware Industry Awards, or the 2005 Shareware Industry Conference
 
Source: TextAload