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Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai
"Digital Future specializes in developing human voice computer synthesis software (text-to-speech software) for Desktop and Mobile computers (currently Pocket PC). Providing exceptional voice quality for mobile devices through our partners from NeoSpeech (a VoiceWare subsidiary), we are able to a provide the most powerful text-to-speech software for Pocket PC on the market."
With relatively few exceptions, Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology is something that has been lacking from Pocket PC software libraries and it's not something that is discussed all too often. Digital Future apparently specializes in this area and one of our own community members, Marcel Proust, has brought to our attention their Pocket PC release which he was very impressed by. Unfortunately, trial download is not available and the asking price is a healthy $49.99 USD (you can find it here in our company store though you'll want to go here if you're interested in getting the female voice bundled instead of the male voice). So if you have any questions, I'm going to happily volunteer Marcel to answer them all. 
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Allways happy to spread the news about a program I like. No trial for a 50$ program! It looks that way at Handango, but it seems a trial is available at PocketGear, the place where PocketPcThoughts Subscribers get a healthy discount.
The program suppports a number but not all file formats. For some, one has to cut and paste. Hopefully, as it evolves it'll become more automated for more formats. It also has an actual built in web browser, that I don't think is based on IE. It's not very good, so I prefer cut and pasting for web pages.
It's the first tts program for the Pocket PC that is actually usable for exten ded listening imho. Doesn't compare to Audible.com of course, but still very useful for those of us who like to multitask.