Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Polly's Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech. With dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages, you can build speech-enabled applications that work in many different countries.
In addition to Standard TTS voices, Amazon Polly offers Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices that deliver advanced improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. Polly’s Neural TTS technology also supports two speaking styles that allow you to better match the delivery style of the speaker to the application: a Newscaster reading style that is tailored to news narration use cases, and a Conversational speaking style that is ideal for two-way communication like telephony applications.
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Aloud
Aloud is a native macOS text-to-speech app for listening to selected text, PDFs, screenshots, images, and web articles. It reads selections from other Mac apps, can skip PDF headers, footers, and page numbers, recognize scanned pages and image text on-device, and highlight words as they are spoken. Users can control playback in a small floating reader, resume recent readings, adjust speed, set pronunciations, and export audio as M4A. Voices include those installed on macOS and the optional Kokoro neural voice, which runs locally on supported Macs. Users may also connect their own ElevenLabs or Cartesia API key for cloud voices, with those providers billing usage separately. Aloud is designed for Mac users who want to listen while working with documents, research, writing, or web content. It requires macOS 14 or later and is sold as a one-time purchase.
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Audeus
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Audeus is a text-to-speech app that reads your documents aloud using natural, lifelike voices. Instantly double or triple your reading speed, improve focus, and increase comprehension with synchronized text highlighting. Get started today.
Features/Benefits of Audeus Text-to-Speech Reader
- Lifelike, engaging voices make reading a breeze and help you stay focused for longer periods so you can get more done and enjoy the extra time you get back
- Instantly double or triple your reading speed, allowing you to consume your reading much faster
- Synced text highlighting keeps you on track and boosts comprehension/retention
- Seamlessly works with your preferred document formats, including PDF, Word (docx), and more - no converting needed
- Cross-platform functionality lets you listen on all your devices, and picks up where you left off
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Play.ht
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AI Powered Text to Voice Generation.
Play.ht offers uncanny, high-fidelity AI Voices for any project where you need human-sounding voice overs and performances.
Hollywood studios, auto manufacturers, and other large enterprises use Play.ht to create realistic and engaging voiceovers quickly, without the hassle of scheduling and hiring voice talent. Our voices sound natural, expressive, and engaging, just like human voice talent.
Play.ht offers API access as well as an online rich-text editor that allows you to generate entire performances with multiple speakers, edit their pacing, and generate unique versions of each paragraph - all within seconds.
Join other companies looking to scale up and simplify their voice work by scheduling a live demo today.
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