Enhance your site with Text2Speech and Web2PDF

When visitors arrive at your website, you want to let them know that it is worth staying and checking out. A simple feature that can enhance the perceived value of your site is translation. And, in my previous post I discussed translation widgets from Google and Yahoo. This week we'll add two additional features that can be applied to a broad range of websites, Text2Speech and Web2PDF.

vozMe provides text to speech widgets that you can easily paste into your website code. The options for configuring this widget include various interfaces and either a male or female voice. You can also specify exactly what text you want read or have visitors select the text that they want to hear. vozMe supports plugins for Blogger, WordPress, and Joomla. Here is an example of the vozMe text to speech widget:



Another useful utility is BCL Technologies' Web2PDF Online, which allows visitors to print your pages as PDF files. When you create a copy of this widget, you have the option of setting the margins of the PDFs that your visitors generate. Here's an example if you want to give it a try:



I've used vozMe and Web2PDF together with Google Translate to enhance my WhyPark site:

www.GreenEnergyProject.com

I've also added them to the right column of the Widget Wonk blog.

You can get a copy of the code for vozME text to speech at:
http://vozme.com/webmasters.php?lang=en

After (free) registration, Web2PDF Online is available at:
http://web2.pdfonline.com/