Would you not love an application that increases your productivity, and allows you to multi-task while keeping in touch with the latest news, e-mails, Facebook updates, etc.? Voice Brief is just the application for you. Voice Brief is an application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later that allows users to [...]
Bland presentations come to life when you add audio and video elements. Audio also becomes much more important when you are sending presentations online. Fortunately, Hello Slide is a text-to-speech mashup that lets you add audio overlays to presentations and then host them for you. Once you have uploaded your PDF, you can go through [...]
Twitter Voice is a handy Android application for Twitter users who want to tweet quickly without having to type anything. A great application for people on the move, for example, people who want to tweet as they drive the car. Since the application requires no keyboard, the application uses “speech-to-text” technology to convert your voice [...]
Select and Speak is a handy extension for Google Chrome that allows users to listen to text from almost any website. The extension has a list of voices (accents) to choose from; you can choose any of the voices that you recognize the clearest and the easiest. To get started, simply install the extension and [...]
Text-to-speech lets you automatically have a voice read pieces of text, and sharing the converted speech means you do not have to read out the text yourself. Normally to share the converted speech you have to electronically send somebody the speech file. But using a service called QR Voice, you can conveniently and quickly send [...]
Chrome Speak, as the name suggests, is an add-on that enables the Chrome browser to read content selected on a website in a human voice. So basically, you can select a paragraph on a webpage, right click on it, go to the Chrome Speak option (assuming you have it installed) and then click “Read the [...]
When you are in the middle of a task and reminded to add something to your to-do list, you are often discouraged by the thought of using your phone’s keypad to type the entire task. Thus apps that let you create to-do lists should support speech-to-text so you can quickly add tasks to list by [...]
After a night of intense studying or research, you simply do not have the stamina to go through another webpage. What you could really use is for somebody to read out the webpage to you. This immensely useful service is exactly what a tool called Announcify offers. Announcify is a browser extension for Google Chrome [...]
While there are many applications out there for translation, they still lack immensely for people to easily converse in foreign languages. But an application called Vocre might have finally bridged the gap left by other translation apps. Vocre is a user-friendly smartphone application. The app is sized at 12.9 MB and requires an iPod touch, [...]
If you have heard the robotic announcements in railway stations and other public places, and wondered whether there was always a human sitting behind the mic, then you need to acquaint yourself with a phenomenon called speech synthesis. This is the process of artificially producing a human voice from the computer. Festvox is an online [...]