

Accurate with natural voices, multilingual. TextToSpeech.io is a Free online Text To Speech Reader service. To let him make breaks after sentences or let him speak big chunks of text sentence-by-sentence with fine-grained control over repetition and moving on. TextToSpeech.io - Free online Text to Speech reader. That would help so much! And if that's even with one of those bell lab / AT&T / whatever super-natural voices, even better!īut it would be already a great relief if there was just a better tool to control Alex. It's also not possible to have him repeat a sentence, without tedious text selection and shortcut usage.Īctually, the best tool I can imagine would have the option to read a sentence and move on to the next one after pressing a special key, OR repeating the previously one after pressing a special key. Also, it's not possible to think about a sentence and then continue reading.

The next problem with Alex is, that he never makes a break after a sentence. Alex still has this "metal factor" in its voice, which makes my ears hurt after 8 hours of listening. They're so good, that you can't tell anymore the difference between a real person or a computer. I have heard already voices that are absolutely amazing compared to Alex.
NATURAL TEXT TO SPEECH MAC MAC OS X
Mac OS X Snow Leopard has a built-in text reader with the name "Alex".Īlthough it is already pretty good quality, I know there are far better natural sounding voices out there. Well, the problem is this: I suffer from a sort of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder which forces me to read every sentence up to 10 times until I really get it. Select the Speak selected text when the key is pressed checkbox.

I will have to read about 15.000 in the next upcoming months. To activate Mac Text to Speech: Open System Preferences, click Accessibility, then Speech. I'm reading about 150 pages of text on screen, every day.
