Reader Kurt Schwartz prefers some of his text spoken rather than written. He writes: I have several text files that I’d like my Mac to read to me using its speech software. I know that I can use the ...

How often do you not get sufficient time to read your favorite news or article? Possibly, it happens every now and then because of your busy routine and other important tasks. But how cool it would be ...

Speech Central: Text to Speech and MP3 is a feature-rich, text-to-speech Windows 10 app that lets you listen to web pages, RSS feeds, word documents, books and emails. When you purchase through links ...

Google Cloud’s Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text APIs are getting a bunch of updates today that introduce support for more languages, make it easier to hear auto-generated voices on different speakers ...

Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our ...

Having machines turn text into speech is nothing new. Professor Stephen Hawking communicated with a computerized voice for many years, and by now, we're used to our GPS devices or smart speakers ...

Onstage, Google announced new text-to-speech previews that allow developers to take advantage of “native audio output” for improved customization. Google says that native audio output, driven by its ...