Simply the best text to speech reader

Learn faster, more effectively and enjoyably!


"Learning is more effective when we use all our senses, and in so doing engage more areas of the brain." (Apply your ear [in:] Wiedza i Zycie, Special Edition 1/2007)

Learning foreign languages

Use the foreign voiceover!

  • Are you preparing for a language exam?
  • Is your progress not as fast as you wished?
  • Do you want to improve your listening comprehension?

Expressivo - as an excellent aid to learning English as a foreign language, is recommended by, among others, Gregory Hadley - English language coordinator at the Niigata International University in Japan.

Working with texts read by our professional English (and other languages) voiceover is a marvellous addition to traditional methods of learning English.

Thanks to Expressivo, you can listen to practically any content in the original language, improving your listening comprehension.

And when you're uncertain how to pronounce a word, just listen to it using Expressivo.

Thanks to Expressivo, for very little cost you acquire an unlimited amount of teaching hours with a professional "native speaker". Test our voices here and choose the one you like best.

Memory training

By repeatedly listening to a text you can more easily
memorise it!

  • Do you need to quickly master a large amount of material in preparation for an important exam?

Use Expressivo and engage the listening process in your learning.

"It turns out that texts which are simultaneously read and heard are remembered better." (Apply your ear [in:] Wiedza i Zycie, Special Edition 1/2007)

This will be of interest to those who need to quickly absorb a lot of information, especially:

  • students preparing for an exam,
  • pupils memorising vocabulary or learning a poem by heart.

Prepare the text that you want to (or have to) learn in your favourite text editor. Then, import the text into Expressivo and read it several times while simultaneously listening to it.

The text can also be saved as an audio file and copied onto a portable MP3 player, enabling you to listen to it whenever and wherever you want - in the car, on the bus or while walking.

You'll soon notice an improvement in your memory.

Teaching children to read and write

Your prides and joy will teach themselves to read!

  • Would you like your child to learn through play?
  • Do you want to give your child a headstart in terms of their intellectual development?
  • Is it important that your child learns to read and write faster than others?

Expressivo together with the free add-on - Talking Keyboard, is an excellent substitute for a private tutor for your little ones.

Talking Keyboard reads every letter or sign aloud as it's written. Thanks to the whole word reading function, your child will know at once if they've spelt a word correctly.

But Talking Keyboard isn't all.

Make your child comfortable in front of the computer. Download their favourite fairy tale and copy it into Expressivo. Press the "read" button and let our reader transport them to a magical land, at the same time as they learn new expressions, words and phrases through the highlighting of every word as it's read.

By stimulating the child's imagination Expressivo may become the first step towards motivating the child to reach for books on their own.

Find out for yourself how much progress your child can make thanks to learning with Expressivo.

Dictation for your little ones (and more)

Learning to spell can be fun!

  • Does your child have problems with spelling?
  • Would you like to help your child improve their grades at school?

Expressivo makes it possible to do dictation exercises, thanks to which your children can rapidly and easily improve their writing abilities. This applies just as much to Polish as to the other languages in our range.

The applet mode is ideal for carrying out dictations (switcheinto it by double-clicking the title bar in Expressivo). In this mode, the reading can be controlled (tempo, pauses, jumping forward or backward) without seeing the text at the same time.

On completing the dictation you can return to the editing mode (double-click on the title bar) and compare the text entered by the child with the original.

Frequently asked questions

I've got Expressivo with an English voice. What do I have to do to use a different voice with the program?
Just buy another English voice in the Expressivo shop. The voice purchased will easily install into your copy of Expressivo.
What file formats are compatible with Expressivo?
Expressivo can read files in the following formats: doc, eml, html, pdf, rtf, sxw, txt, odt. In the future, new converters will be available, enabling files in new formats to be used.
 

E-books

A library of books and other publications, which thanks to Expressivo you can listen to on the computer as well as take with you, wherever you want on your MP3 player. You'll find everything from literary masterpieces to the most read books and stories in the world.