Swish

If all you want to animate is text, Swish offers a simplified, cheaper alternative to Flash.

Swish Screen

It provides a set of prebuilt animation effects that would take a lot of work to build in Flash.

It can export its text animations as .SWF format Flash movies.

Swish lets you build out fast text effects such as Vortex, Wave, 3D Spin and Slide.
It also supports all the scripting of Flash 3, plus the ability to include imported images and MP3-compressed audio.

Mp3 sound In fact this movie was created with Swish