Someone sent me a link to Natural Voices the other day. Ken White warned me about this “free” piece of software:

These guys are crap. They promote their product as being free with natural voices, but they basically lie. Their product is the same old free trial stuff with the same old bad microsoft voices, you have to buy it to get good voices, just like with our stuff. But, they piss off lots of people with the somewhat false advertising, hooking people in thinking they are getting something free, just to get the upsell to get the voices. We probably get 10 people a week coming to us complaining about them, or asking us for help with products they bought from them that don’t work and they can’t get support.

I’ve known Ken a lot longer than I’ve known of Naturalreaders.com. Indeed, his TextAloud is probably one of the more popular Text To Speech tools on the planet.