Free Text To Speech With Natural Voices

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Scan or take a picture of any image and Speechify will read it aloud to you with its cutting-edge OCR technology. Save your images to your library in the cloud and access it anywhere. You can now listen to that note you got from a friend, relative, or other loved one.

Hi Warren, I am one of those small, randomly selected people, and I ABSOLUTELY love this feature. I have consumed more ideas than I ever have on Medium. And also as a non-native English speaker, this is really helping me to improve my pronunciation. Keep this forevermore! Love, Ananya:)

Text-to-speech goes by a few names. Some refer to it as TTS, read aloud, or even speech synthesis; for the more engineered name. Today, it simply means using artificial intelligence to read words aloud be; it from a PDF, email, docs, or any website. Instantly turn text into audio. Listen in English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or more and choose your accent and character to personalize your experience.

Beautifully. Speech synthesis works by installing an app like Speechify either on your device or as a browser extension. AI scans the words on the page and reads it out loud, without any lag. You can change the default voice to a custom voice, change accents, languages, and even increase or decrease the speaking rate.

AI has made significant progress in synthesizing voices. It can pick up on formatted text and change tone accordingly. Gone are the days where the voices sounded robotic. Speechify is revolutionizing that.

Once you install the TTS mobile app, you can easily convert text to speech from any website within your browser, read aloud your email, and more. If you install it as a browser extension, you can do just the same on your laptop. The web version is OS agnostic. Mac or Windows, no problem.

TTS, which stands for Text-to-Speech, also known as speech synthesis, is a transformative technology that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to convert written text into remarkably realistic spoken words. TTS systems are crucial for enhancing accessibility, especially for individuals with learning disabilities and visual impairments, by allowing any text to be read aloud.

TTS technology offers many benefits, like helping those with reading difficulties, providing rest for your eyes, multitasking by listening to content, improving pronunciation and language learning, and making content accessible to a wider audience.

Speechify TTS stands out by offering a more natural and human-like voice quality, a wider range of customization options, and user-friendly integration across devices. Plus, our dedication to accessibility means that we ensure a seamless and inclusive experience for all users.

I have tried Zero2000 which I saw recommended on a Microsoft users forum, but I was not able to download the voices I wanted (British English, as I work for a UK company who want to text-to-speech for some videos). I have to request permission from IT to install .exe files, and when we sat down together to install the voice files from Zero2000, unfortunately it was recognised as malicious.

Microsoft added a bunch of natural voices which can be downloaded via narrator in settings. But I downloaded some but they do not show up in windows found this link on how to get new voices recognize -text-to-speech-voices-not-showing-up-in-system-speech-options-windows

I work with Storyline a lot as an Instructional Designer, and I was wondering when Articulate will come out with more voices for text-to-speech. Also, the voices sound really robotic, so is there a way to fix that on Articulate's end? I have to do all voiceovers in Vyond because they offer a plethora of voices and just added more.

Our team is working on improving the customizability of the text-to-speech feature. We've added your voice to the feature request report, and we're taking each one of these requests into consideration as we plan for new features to add to Storyline 360 in the future. Thanks for your input!

I second the motion. Obviously, the workflow of native text to speech in Storyline is the best. Easiest to manage, update, and produce. However, 4 female and 3 male voices, none of which are "AI" or "natural" sounding is a real limitation. Our internal customers hate most of them, so we have to jump through a lot of hoops to leverage the many, much higher quality, voices available in other tools. And the edit review publish workflow is much more cumbersome.

Please add me to your list of those who are asking for an update. Other posts show this request being over 4 years old. I'm only looking for a voice that matches the built in characters within Storyline. And an English version. Nothing really matches up with Craig character

There are a number of relatively inexpensive AI voice-to-text generators on the market now that deliver emotion-based voiceover that is frequently indistinguishable from a real human voice. Is there one that works particularly well with Storyline?

I agree with this sentiment. While I currently utilize Vyond, Revoicer, and Synthesia, there are a plethora of exceptional solutions available. Nonetheless, Storyline's limited functionality poses a significant hindrance, especially when creating courses in multiple languages. This limitation results in an exponential increase in effort, and cost.

I have been using Voicemaker for TTS. It has some pretty natural sounding voices, supports many languages, and the "premium" subscription is only $10 per month. I agree though, recording sentence-by-sentence is laborious...

I have been using Amazon Polly to create all of the MP3 audio clips used for narration in my Storyline courses because it delivers " high-quality, natural-sounding human voices in dozens of languages". It's MUCH better than the robotic TTS available from Storyline 360 and I've found it to be both quick and easy to use. In addition, the price is very reasonable because the IT group at my company is already working with Amazon Web Services.

I am looking for some easy to install text to speech software for Ubuntu that sounds natural. I've installed Festival, Gespeaker, etc., but nothing sounds very natural. All very synthetic and hard to understand.

Pico and espeak are fun and easy to get to work, but they're not all that good.The default Festival voices are also not that good. However, Festival is a scheme-based speech framework, where a number of researchers have built much better plug-in voices. You can easily surpass the pico2wave quality on stock Ubuntu, because one of those voices is available as a ready-made package.

You can get other quite good voices from the Nitech repository, but installing them is finicky, and the default paths changed so the file name references in the bundled scheme files may need to be manually edited to work on stock Ubuntu.

I believe Ive found the best TTS software for free using a Google Chrome extension called "SpeakIt". This only works in the Chrome browser for me on Ubuntu. It doesnt work with Chromium for some reason. SpeakIt comes with two female voices which both sound very realistic compared to everything else out there. There are at least four more male & female voices listed s Chrome extensions if you search the Chrome Web Store using "TTS" as your query.

Firefox users also have two options. Within Firefox addons, do a search for TTS and you should find "Click Speak" and also "Text to Voice". The voices are not as good as the Chrome SpeakIt voices, but are definitely usable.

The SpeakIt extension uses iSpeech technology and for a price of $20 a year, the site can convert text to MP3 audio files. You can input text, URLs, RSS feeds, as well as documents such as TXT, DOC, and PDF and output to MP3. You can make podcast, embed audio, etc. Here is a link, and a sample of their audio (don't know how long the link will last).

The intention is to provide an easy to use interface to text-to-speech output via Google's speech synthesis system. A fallback option using pico2wave automatically provides TTS synthesis in case no Internet connection is found.

gTTS, a Python library and CLI tool to interface with Google Translate's text-to-speech API. Writes spoken mp3 data to a file, a file-like object (bytestring) for further audio manipulation, or stdout.

I have looked high and low for text to speech for Ubuntu that is high quality. There is none. My vocal cords are paralyzed so I needed TTS to add voice instructions to my Ubuntu videos. You can get commercial high quality Linux text to speech software here. It's just really expensive. I ended up buying Natural Reader for Windows (doesn't work in Ubuntu under Wine) for $40. Maybe later I will get the Linux one.

I have been conducting research on the best sounding and easily tuned text to speech voices. Below is a listing of what I thought were the top 5 products in order of sound quality. Most of the websites associated with these product have an interactive demo that will allow for you to make your own determination.

I find Nitech HTS voices on festival very natural and comforting over any other voices I have heard. See this link on how to set up Nitech and other sounds with festival. I have not found a good gui which I can use to configure those voices but setting them via festival.scm still works. That post is very old and you might want to find the actual installation directory using "locate festival" command

Here is what I did to have pure natural speech for pdf and other text files(other solutions are not natural or they're just paid services). This is actually a work around using chromium or chrome but works fast and easy.

There's also ways to open other files like .doc and .txt in chrome and do the same. There's other extensions for chrome that view pdf files, check if it fits you better. Besides you can upload all kind of texts in Google Drive and use SpeakIt! to read it for you.Another extension called 'Speak text' works the same way and has natural speech.