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How to make your own Text to Speech Converter

Earlier you might have read the list of online text to speech converters, they are good if you want to listen the files in mp3 format. But if you want a small piece of text to be converted into sound/speech, then those website gets out of mind.

You know, you can make your own Text to Speech Converter within a few seconds?

Just Open the notepad, and paste the following code in it,

Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox(“What do you want me to say?”,”Text To Voice”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak message

Now save that text file with some name for example, TipsRing-Text-2-Speech-Converter.vbs and you’re done. Now open the software by double clicking on it (where you saved that file), and from now onwards, whenever there is some need to convert text to speech, you can open your own text to speech converter.

How To Make Your Own Text to Speech Converter

Type some text in the provided box and hit OK. You will get the sound for the text you entered.

This Text To Voice converter has been tested on Windows XP, Vista and 7.

Isn’t it cool! Why not share your opinion in the form of comment!

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What is a .lit file? and How to open .lit files?

Did you get some file with .lit extension while you were testing something or in some work-around?

Okay! Here is the method for opening the .lit files.

.lit file is a format from Microsoft Reader, which is Generally for an e-book reader, available for the mobile phones as well as for the desktops.

The easiest way to open .lit files is to download the Microsoft Reader and use it. But it will only work on Windows Operating Systems.

If you want .lit files to be opened on Mac or Linux, then you will need to download a small program called ConvertLit. ConvertLit converts the .lit file to the open file formats. ConvertLit is also available for the Windows Operating Systems.

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What are the FB2 Files and How to Open the FB2 Files?

If you have downloaded some E-Book which comes with .FB2 extension and wondering, what’s that! How to open that file ?

Then the answer is here :

.FB2 is an abbreviation used for the FictionBook 2.0, an E-book file format which uses XML to display the file contents as done by the Mcrosoft Office Suit 2007 or greater versions like Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access and so on.

To open a FB2 file, you need special e-book viewers.

Here are some free e-book readers listed:

  • Cool Reader supports FB2 file formats, and consists of features like smooth scrolling (as provided in Mozilla Firefox), text reformatting, and a fully customizable palette panel.
    What are FB2 Files? How to Open FB2 Files?
  • STDU Viewer can be used to work with several file formats including the .FB2 one. It also consists of really nice GUI and standard features like searching, rotating an so on. It also supports the page extraction from PDF and the DJVU files, as images.

Both the FB2 viewers are available free but for only for the Windows Operating Systems.

Enjoy!

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Convert pdf, doc, docx and txt (text) files to mp3 format

Ever wanted to convert your documents to mp3 format ?

Well, Zamzar can easily convert your document to mp3 in just a single click.

Zamzar Currently supports formats like,

  • .txt
  • .pdf
  • .doc
  • .docx
  • .pub
  • .odt
  • .wps
  • .wpd

For the visually impaired people, converting the documents into mp3 formats would be a very wise solution. One can also carry the documents in mp3 format on his mobile phone or onto a portable audio device like iPod and so on.

To convert your file to mp3 format, just visit Zamzar.

Convert docx, doc, pdf and txt files to mp3 in Single Click

Select the required document conversion format, enter your email address and submit the form. The converted document will be mailed to you within a day or two, in your selected format.

Enjoy!

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How to enable Select, Copy and Print on Restricted PDF Documents ?

I think you might have met with some pdf files which are sent with restrictions e.g. requires password to open, with disabled text selection, disabled text copying, and disabled printing.

These limitations are imposed by the creators or pdf writers in order to keep their work protected from the unauthorized access / from the content thieves. However, sometimes it gets really annoying to the simple people as well, who have nothing to do with the cheating or stealing the data. By adopting the following ways, you can remove all these limitations very easily, PDFpirate.

The procedure for removing restrictions from a PDF file :

  1. Just upload the restricted pdf document to PDFpirate,
    Enable Select, Copy and Printing on Restricted PDF Documents
  2. Then and you will get the file without any restrictions as PDFpirate scans the whole document. Thereafter you can download the clean pdf document from there.
    Enable Select, Copy and Printing on Restricted PDF Documents

However, there’s one disadvantage of using the PDFpirate, that it doesn’t work with the password protected files. Please share your opinions.

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How to Open CBR Files ?

These files are usually the Comic Book Record (CBR) Archives. In general, a CBR file contains compressed image files which are fetched together by using the RAR algorithm. Because CBR files are usually the .RAR files which could be extracted by using the software like 7-zip or by the WinRar.

There are 2 ways for doing it,

  1. The easiest method for all is, Just Rename the file extension to .rar (after.cbr), and extract it just like a zip or rar file.
  2. Now perform right click onto the CBR file, and hit on Open > Open With,
    2 Ways to Open a CBR File
    Now select either the WinRar or 7-zip from the list of programs, and extract their contents.
    2 Ways to Open a CBR File
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