GhostReader is a multilingual speech solution for Mac OS X that allows you to listen to your documents with naturally sounding voices in a language of choice. Or use it to create your own personal podcasts or your own audio books by exporting to iPod ready iTunes tracks. Or just use it to speak selected text in a handy reader window with play, fast forward and rewind functionality. It even allows you to listen to text by just pointing your cursor at the text as you sit back and relax while GhostReader reads the text under the cursor.
Uses
Save Time
- Convert documents to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone
- Convert text from news sites and emails to audiobooks to listen to on an iPod or iPhone
Overcome Reading Difficulties
- Listen to selected text in any application with word or sentence highlighting
- Point the cursor at text in Safari to hear the paragraph below the cursor
Proofread
- Listen to your own text to proof spelling and composition
Improve Pronunciation of Foreign Languages
- Listen to text on foreign web sites in an interactive reader window
- Type foreign text in a new reader window to hear the pronunciation
Create Podcasts
- Create personal podcasts by converting your text to audio files or iTunes tracks
Features
Voices
- Includes high quality voices in one language of choice. Voices work only with GhostReader!
- Available languages include: American English, British English, Spanish, American Spanish, French, Canadian French, Czech, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish and Swedish, Arabic, Greek and Russian.
Interactive Document and Selection Reader
- Open Text, Word, HTML, PDF and RTF files in an interactive reader window
- Interactive reader with play, stop, forward, rewind, sentence start, and skip sentence functionality
- Speak selected text in any application using a tool palette or keyboard shortcut
Audio Conversion
- Export to iTunes to create bookmarkable audiobooks, mp3 or wav files
- Convert text to audio files (AIFF)
Other
- Listen to the text below the cursor in Safari
- Localized in English, French, Italian and German
Order GhostReader Single User (1 language)
Order GhostReader Single User (2 languages)
Order GhostReader Single User (3 languages)
GhostReader can be purchased with Infovox iVox so the high-quality voices can be used with other Mac speech-based applications, including applications such as TextEdit, Preview, Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word (using its Speech toolbar), AppleScript, Proloquo, KeyStrokes, SwitchXS, VisioVoice and AppleWorks, as well as many educational titles such TextHelp's Read and Write Gold for Mac (version 2.1.0 and higher) and Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh (Versions 3.0.4 and 4.0 and higher).
Order GhostReader and American English Infovox iVox Bundle
Order GhostReader and Infovox iVox for Other Languages
Educational Licenses: 
Educational licenses are available for GhostReader for internal educational use only and are available for a single language, bilingual and trilingual.
Classroom License -
This license permits use of the voices and generated audio files on up to 50 computers in a single classroom or mobile lab and up to 150 iPost or other playback devices.
Order GhostReader Classroom - Single Language (up to 50 computers)
Order GhostReader Classroom - 2 Languages (up to 50 computers)
Order GhostReader Classroom - 3 Languages (up to 50 computers)
Educational M License -
This license permits use by schools, school districts, colleges and universities. All building, departments and schools falling under the same administrative purchasing unit can share the license. Maximum computers is 150. The GhostReader Educational M License permits use of audio files on 300 iPods or other playback devices and publication on the internet with some restrictions
Order GhostReader Educational M License - Single Language - (up to 150 computers)
Order GhostReader Educational M License - 2 Languages - (up to 150 computers)
Order GhostReader Educational M License - 3 Languages - (up to 150 computers)
Educational L License -
This license permits use by schools, school districts, colleges and universities. All building, departments and schools falling under the same administrative purchasing unit can share the license. Maximum computers is 1000. The GhostReader Educational L License permits use of audio files on 300 iPods or other playback devices and publication on the internet with some restrictions
Order GhostReader Educational L License - Single Language - (up to 1000 computers)
Order GhostReader Educational L License - 2 Languages - (up to 1000 computers)
Order GhostReader Educational L License - 3 Languages - (up to 1000 computers)
Teacher Kit License (Infovox iVox and GhostReader Bundle)
This license includes a license for Infovox iVox and GhostReader for use on a single computer. This license permits the use of generated audio files on multiple iPods and other devices. If the software and computer on which it is installed is used a by a single teacher the audio files may be used by the teacher and the students on the devices used or owned by the teacher’s students. If the software and the computer on which it is installed is shared by multiple teachers use of generated audio files is limited to 50 playback devices. This license includes an educational publishing license.
Order Teacher Kit License (Infovox iVox and GhostReader Bundle)
Downloads:
A time constrained
(15 non-consecutive days) full version of GhostReader is available for evaluation from
our demonstration page. Try it out today!
System Requirements:
- Universal Binary, requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- GhostReader 1.6.5 is required for Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)
