PowerTalk 1.2.14

PowerTalk 1.2.14 (Automatic speech for PowerPoint presentations)

PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.

You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.

Speech is provided by the synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows 7, Vista and XP, and other voices are available. PowerTalk uses PowerPoint supplied with Microsoft Office to show the presentation.

Using PowerTalk.

Opening Presentations.

There are a number of ways to get PowerTalk to narrate a PowerPoint Presentation (.ppt file) or Slide Show (.pps file):

Note: ppt and pps files are identical except for the ppt/pps part of the filename, the difference being what happens when they are opened. A .ppt file may be be saved in PowerPoint as a .pps file or else a .ppt file can be simply renamed as a .pps.

Open a Slide Show. See below for details.

Right click on a Presentation or Slide Show and select 'Narrate with PowerTalk'.

Drag a Slide Show file onto a PowerPoint program shortcut.

Browse to a Presentation or Slide Show using the dialog that appears when launching PowerTalk from the Start menu. The initial folder used may be specified using the shortcut 'Start in' property or adding the folder name as a parameter.

Create a specific shortcut.

Specify PowerTalk.exe as the target and the presentation file as a parameter(e.g. "C:\Program Files\PowerTalk\PowerTalk.exe" "MyShow.ppt").

By default PowerTalk will narrate Slide Shows when they are opened outside of PowerPoint (e.g. by double-clicking in Windows Explorer). Slide Show files may still be shown without narration by opening within PowerPoint or right-clicking on them and selecting 'show'. During installation there is an option to disable this feature and another option to enable it for Presentations. This behaviour may be changed at a later time by using the PowerTalk settings option in the startmenu (or as follows: open Windows Explorer (Windows key + E), select 'Tools' -> 'Folder Options' -> 'File Types', type 'PPS', select 'Advanced', select 'show' from the list (or 'open' for .ppt files) and then select 'Set Default').

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PowerTalk 1.2.14