Textout is a text to speech freeware intended for use by developers who intend to use text to speech with their softwares. It can be launched via command prompt or batch files or from your programs as long as you know the correct syntax.

It reads out text using microsoft's text to speech engine available on windows 2000 and above.

Textout reads a file or a line of text passed to it as an arguement and terminates on completion. To cancel text reading before completion, the developer has to forcefully terminate the textout process.

txtout.exe param1 param2

txtout.exe read c:\mytextfile.txt

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txtout.exe is the name of the textout executable file param1 is a parameter that tells the program what to do such as: 

"read" without the quotes tells the application to open the file that is specified by param2 for reading.

"say" without the quotes tells the application to read the string that is specified by param2.

param2 contains the name of the text file to be read or the string to be read.

txtout.exe say "This is a joke"

Above usage will read out "This is a joke" through your computer speakers.if param2 contain spaces, remember to put it in quotes.

txtout.exe read C:\mytextfile.txt

Above usage will read out the content of C:\mytextfile.txt through your computer speakers. if param2 contain spaces, remember to put it in quotes e.g txtout.exe read "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\readme.txt"

txtout.exe

Above usage will read out the default file (C:\textout.txt) through your computer speakers

The parameters "read" and "say" are lowercase.

 

Enjoy!