Display PDF as HTML and read PDF aloud.

Talking Clipboard can now display PDF with formatting and images. You can also change the page zoom and go to any page directly. It can also jump to the next page automatically, once finished reading the current page.

Can I read DRM protected eBooks, or Mobipocket/Kindle format books?

You can't directly open DRM protected ePub books in Talking Clipboard. But you can remove the DRM from these books for personal use.

Article 24, which allows, in combination with Article 18, do the following software without the consent of the copyright owner:

• Copy software for backup.
• Copy software for maintenance service licensed copy holder.
• Copy software or make derivative works of her suitability for a computer system or other software.
• Patch security holes and protecting them.
• Obtaining information necessary to adjust the computer system or other software (engineering back) with no intention to violate copyrights.

Almost all the major DRM's like Adobe ePub DRM, Kindle DRM, Barnes & Noble ePub DRM, etc. can be removed for personal use.

You can convert your eBook from any format to ePub format using various free tools like: 2epub, calibre, How can I create ePub files from my books?.

Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills

"A UK study of three thousand children aged nine to sixteen suggests something that may not come as a shock to geeks: using technology increases a child's core literary skills. As Researcher Obvious put it, 'The more forms of communications children use the stronger their core literary skills.' And for those of us worried about a world of 'tl;dr' and 'Y U H8n?' the research claims that 'text speech' does not damage literacy. The biggest shortcoming of this research is that it appears the children graded their own writing in that their methodology was an online survey designed to ask the children which technology they use and then follow up with asking them how well they write to determine which children have better literacy skills."

Talking Clipboard Features

The Power of Talking Clipboard

Lets assume you have a text file with contents like:

Welcome to the 10:15 news. The govt. has decided to allocate 2.1 GHz spectrum to the service providers so that they can provide free WiFi service after 21:30. People are very :) with the free WiFi announcement.

Now you want to read 10:15 as quarter past 10, govt. as government, GHz as Giga Hertz, 21:30 as 9:30 PM and :) as happy. Can you do all this with any other text to speech software?

Now listen to the same text converted using TalkingClipboard. The audio is so much crystal clear and audible and it reflects the user natural way of speech and user needs for text to speech conversion. And all this can be done using TalkingClipboard so easily, as TalkingClipboard provides Regular expression, Text Aliases, Word Pronunciations, emotion reading and tons of other features.

Firefox Toolbar Addon and HTML/ePUB pages reading

Talking Clipboard version 1.7.0.0 released

New Features in Talking Clipboard version 1.7.0.0 :

• Added Free Mozilla Firefox Text to Speech Toolbar Addon.
• Auto scroll to current reading position in HTML/ePub books implemented.