River Past Talkative converts text to spoken words or audio files.

Easy to use and fast encoding. Read text to you, or encoder to MP3, WMA, WAV, or audio-only AVI format.

Users can choose voice, speaking speed, volume, codec, sample rate, channel, and/or bitrate settings. Extremely fast and reliable. Useful for proofreading your own writing, or use it to listen to news, emails, articles and web pages.

It uses a text editor interface so it is easy to learn and understand.

It supports plain text and RTF files as input, or copy the text from the clipboard.

River Past Talkative supports the following output formats, in additional to be able to read the text to the speakers.

AVI (Audio Only)
MKA (Matroska Audio)
MOV (QuickTime) - MOV Booster Pack required.
MPA (MPEG Layer-2)
MP3 (MPEG Layer-3)
OGG (OGG Vorbis)
WAV
WMA (Windows Media Audio)
WAV is a universal format which can be read on almost any audio software on all computer platforms, including MacOS and Linux.

MP3 is commonly used on personal portable audio players. It supports high quality compression. Many internet download sites use MP3 formats.


OGG Vorbis is an open source audio compression format which provides similar quality as MP3, without the expensive loyalties.

WMA (Windows Media Audio) is Microsoft's audio compression format. It is used on some portable audio players, and used for internet audio streaming.

Why do we provide audio-only AVI as an output format? If you are using video editing software on a different platform, like MacOS or Linux, your software may not take MP3 or WMA as input. Although WAV should be accepted without any problem, its uncompressed large size makes transferring files between platforms time-consuming. However, most likely your video editing software would take an audio-only AVI with compression as input.

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