It reads and it cause, but it's still a synthesized voice with pronunciations or sometimes bizarre intonations. By setting the tone on 'Acute' for the female voice and 'Grave' for the male voice, adding commas in the text to mark pauses there or it is necessary, reading becomes quite correct. I have not tested the English voice, unable to judge good or bad English pronunciation. I have not tested either use with Word, e-mail or the web browser, it will be for later. The MP3 recording gives access to any setting: it's mono, 16000 Hz sampling frequency and speed 24 Kb / s; This said the voice does not require CD quality recording. Correct product but from 2008, so progress is due to be made in the field of voice synthesis and version 2013 would add a, or even 2 stars and more.