TextAloud Helps Lawyer Keep Order in the Court

From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20100525/bs_prweb/prweb4046884_3

Tue May 25, 3:01 am ET
Leading Text to Speech software frees legal professional from long days at the office, and enables him to hear court action anywhere he goes

Clemmons, NC (PRWEB) May 25, 2010 -- Like so many in the legal profession, Joshua Gordon's greatest commodity is time. The Concord, New Hampshire appellate lawyer once spent hours just on the reading associated with his casework alone, but soon discovered TextAloud from NextUp Technologies (http://www.nextup.com) as a useful and valuable alternative to hours of reading by sight each week. Joshua now uses TextAloud as a far more streamlined solution for reading his professional documents, transcripts, long legal memos, and other content. Thanks to TextAloud, he can now do so away from the confines of his office, listening to his materials instead while driving, commuting, or even while working out.

Affordably priced from just $29.95, TextAloud is the easy and popular software program that allows PC users everywhere to listen to their reading, instead, by turning their text files into natural, human-sounding speech. From articles, to eBooks, e-mails, websites, documents, and PDFs, TextAloud exports almost any written text into spoken audio, and into sound file formats that can be listened to anywhere, via MP3 player, iPhone (R), car stereo, computer, and more.

"I tried TextAloud after reading about it in a legal technology newsletter," comments Joshua, who soon discovered that by using TextAloud, his productivity actually increased even while cutting down on his long hours in the office. "TextAloud made me very efficient," he explains. "In my work, I have to review days and days of trial transcripts. Reading these transcripts is extremely tedious, and can take nearly as long as the trial itself. However, by using TextAloud, I can speed up the playback slightly as needed, and get through a day of trial testimony in about an hour and a half. Later, when I have to refer to the transcript for a particular fact, I know just about where to go back to."

Joshua uses TextAloud on his Zen Creative MX, which is an MP3 player model that allows him to utilize bookmarks effectively for his sound files. "This way, I'm able to come back to finish long MP3 files later as required," he comments. The Zen Creative MX is easy for him to navigate, the screen is easy to view, and the MX's ease of use with bookmarks is a huge plus for the busy lawyer (who also uses TextAloud in conjunction with his website http://www.appealslawyer.net).

Like many TextAloud users, Joshua has found tricks and shortcuts that have proven highly useful to him while working with the software. For new users to TextAloud, for instance, Joshua recommends that they "Use the audio tags. I put a shortcut to the audio tags on my toolbar, so that my MP3 player is automatically able to organize my 'reading' on TextAloud." Joshua's easy solution means that he is able to pull up almost any file or topic he needs after only a brief glance at its audio tags.

"TextAloud has become something I use almost every day," comments Joshua. "It is invaluable."