The 21st century is the age of living at high speed and we are constantly hard press for time and try to use it to the max doing several things concurrently. No wonder, that it has lately become very popular to listen to Mp3 player or iPod when running, doing mechanical work, driving or something else. We have to be in a constant hurry in order to meet the demands of the time and keep pace with the surrounding world. That’s why there appeared a lot of save time technologies, helping us to be efficient and productive in our daily life.

So, let’s pass from pure speculations to some practical means which can help to save time. For example, you can use your iPod to listen to books on information you need to know. Speaking Notepad is new text to speech software, with which you’ll be able to read thousands of interesting and useful books without directly spending your time on reading them. You can convert any text to Wav or MP3 files to be suitable for listening on your iPod.

Here’s the brief list of Speaking Notepad’s functions:

you can create your own audio books as it reads aloud text, Microsoft Word and rich formatted text files

you can create audio versions of your favourite web sites, as it reads aloud htm- and html-files

it provides a number of natural sounding and clear voices to choose most suitable for you

you can adjust such voice properties as voice speed and pitch to make your podcast easy to listen

Speaking Notepad, being a powerful and handy text to speech program, permits you to make various podcasts for your iPods and converts any text you like to MP3 or Wav audio file. Using such a program you can listen to your favourite books as well as books you thought you would never be able to read. It’s the easiest existing way to save time and make other people wonder at your great erudition.