Whether you rely on text-to-speech for accessibility due to a visual impairment, or simply often find yourself in a situation where glancing at the screen is not a viable option; a text-to-speech app might just be what you need. If you spend a long time driving, in the gym or with your phone in your [...]
Audio books are ideal for those with vision problems and individuals who would rather listen to a book than read it, but this accessibility rarely stretches to your own documents and reading materials. If you’d like to be able to convert a text document to speech, you’ll either need to record it yourself or use [...]
Typing is not something that people enjoy. Even after you have become quite good at it and picked up speed, it is not something that you look forward to, particularly when you need to type up long essays or passages for a project. Thankfully there are various user-friendly speech to text applications available that help [...]
Speech-to-text technology helps us out in various ways. Normally the technology is used by us to have text automatically typed on our computers or to have our smartphones accept voice commands. But how convenient would it be if you could simply use speech-to-text to take down notes, take meeting records, and more all using your [...]
Android users running version 2.1 and above can make use of SpeakMe, an app that speaks incoming notifications aloud in instances when reading from the screen might not be possible. Driving, physical exercise and other times when direct access to your phone are all good uses for this free little app. Rather than have every [...]
Speech-to-text is a blessing for everybody who hates to type on the computer. Normally however the feature is absent from web browsers thereby forcing you to type text in webpages. But a very useful tool called Oweb Voice Input changes that. Oweb Voice Input is a browser tool that adds speech-to-text to your web browser. [...]
Personally, I find proofreading articles is much easier if it’s read back to me. Hearing it helps me spot mistakes that my eyes sometimes do not catch while reading it to myself. There are plenty of add-ons to accomplish this task in a browser, but for desktop programs like Microsoft Word, they are a little [...]
Typing long passages is not something that people are fond of. This is precisely why we have various computer applications that convert speech to text for your convenience. Here to offer you the same service online is a web app called Online Dictation. Online Dictation is a free to use web tool that converts your [...]
If you are a busy person and don’t have the time to read all the online articles that are important for you, check out SoundGecko. It is a text-to-audio transcribing service that converts articles to MP3 audio format and lets you listen to them while you are driving in your car, in subway or walking [...]
Speech to text software is widely available on mobile devices for free. However, you will find less luck in desktop apps as good voice dictation software costs a lot. Of course Apple will be adding voice dictation to Mountain Lion, and Windows probably has some apps that can do the job, but if you need [...]
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 [...]