We sell the best, most natural-sounding Text to Speech voices available for your Windows PC by companies like Acapela™, Ivona™, Cerence™, and AT&T Natural Voices™. Click on the links below for list of voices by language, audio samples, and information on purchasing. More than 29 languages and many accents are offered. If you have not already purchased TextAloud 4, you can add it to your purchase from the voice order form.
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NextUp Talker is a Text to Speech program specifically designed for people who have temporarily or permanently lost their voice. With natural, human-sounding voices and convenient short-cuts to quickly enter commonly used sentences and phrases, NextUp Talker allows you to overcome vocal impairment by communicating with others using a Windows PC or Tablet PC.
Mac OS X Lion is set to include a wide variety of new high quality text-to-speech voices in a multitude of languages, thanks to a long suspected partnership between Apple and Nuance, a speech technology company. The new voices are of surprisingly good quality and speak in major world languages including English, Mandarin, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Thai, Bahasa, Portuguese, Hindi, Russian, and many more.
The new voices exist as downloadable content in developer preview 3 of Lion, and were originally discovered by NetPuting and brought to light by 9to5mac (screenshot source). 9to5Mac mentions that each voice independently costs $45, suggesting Apple has reached an agreement with Nuance to license the voice technology, and they also suggest that these voices and text-to-speech technology will be a component of iOS 5.
Read4Me reads Microsoft Word documents, Rich Text, HTML, Open Office, and many other types of text files. It pronounces the text in a choice of voices and you can adjust the speed, pitch and other properties. You can create a soundtrack with dialogs in multiple voices, saving to audio file or AudioBook format.
To use any of the RealSpeak voices, you must be running PAC Mate Omni release 6.5 or later. The Eloquence language modules can be installed on any version of PAC Mate Omni as well as older PAC Mates running a release no earlier than 2.5.
These voices are available at no charge. The RealSpeak Solo voices can be installed into main memory or on a CompactFlash card. If you intend to install more than one voice, it is recommended that you install them onto a CompactFlash card, as each voice requires at least 10 megabytes of storage space. Additional Eloquence languages are always installed to main memory, and each language will occupy between 1.5 and 2 MB of space. Once a voice is installed, you can open the Voice Settings dialog box, move to the Secondary page, and configure it as your secondary voice, which is active when you use INSERT+S, L on the QX or S CHORD, L on the BX to toggle between the primary and secondary voice. For more information on configuring the secondary voice, refer to the PAC Mate Omni documentation.
Vocalizer Expressive version 1 voices are available for use with JAWS 15, JAWS 16, JAWS 17 and MAGic 13.1. These voices offer many benefits including pitch adjustment, improved performance, especially in the areas of latency and speech quality, as well as support for a variety of languages. Each voice can be downloaded as high premium or premium. The high premium voices are large files, but offer the highest quality speech. The premium voices offer very good speech quality and a smaller file size. Both high premium and premium versions of a voice can be installed on the same computer so they can be compared.
Vocalizer Expressive version 2 voices are available for use with Fusion 11, JAWS 18, ZoomText 2018, and MAGic 14 (or later for each application). These voices are offered in two forms: compact voices and individual high premium voices. The compact voices are smaller files and take up less disk space on your computer. As a result, you can download a single file that contains all voices and dialects for a selected language. These voices offer very good speech quality at fast speech rates. The high premium voices are larger files, but offer the highest quality speech.
Note: When you install a version 2 voice, any version 1 voices installed on your computer are no longer available in your voice profiles for use with JAWS 18 or later and MAGic 14 or later. To restore the version 1 voices, you must first uninstall all version 2 voices.
Amazon announced on September 25, 2019, that Alexa will soon be able to mimic celebrities voices including Samuel L. Jackson, costing $0.99 for each voice.[76] In 2019, Alexa started replying to Spanish voice commands in Spanish.[77]
In February 2017, Luke Millanta successfully demonstrated how an Echo could be connected to, and used to control, a Tesla Model S. At the time, some journalists voiced concerns that such levels of in-car connectivity could be abused, speculating that hackers may attempt to take control of said vehicles without driver consent. Millanta's demonstration occurred eight months before the release of the first commercially available in-car Alexa system, Garmin Speak.[90][91][92]
Narration and use of human voices are quite the recipe to make online learners more interested and emotionally connected with the eLearning course. Fortunately, there is great abundance in narration and voice-over professionals out there. However, the cost keeps rising if you decide to hire a professional. There also arises the issue of what happens when you decide to update or add content to your online training course. Text to speech software tools eliminate the need to pay a professional while tackling cases of visually impaired online learners or online learners with various other learning disabilities.
If you go buying a text-to-speech software maker, you're not exactly going to stay quiet about it, right? Amazon this morning announced its acquisition of Ivona, the company behind the Kindle Fire's Text-to-Speech, Voice Guide and Explore by Touch features. Ivona, currently carrying the tagline "an Amazon company" on its site, offers its technology in 44 voices in 17 languages. It also works closely with organizations for the blind and visually impaired. More information on the acquisition can be found after the break.
Amazon Polly provides a number of different voices for you to use. To hear example voices, see the Amazon Polly product overview. To hear a specific voice speak a sample that you provide, you can use the Amazon Polly console. For instructions, see Listening to the Voices.
In addition to the above voices, Amazon Polly can build you a custom Brand Voice that reflects your brand persona, providing you the opportunity to offer unique and exclusive NTTS voices to your customers. To learn more about Amazon Polly Brand Voices, please see Brand Voice.
I'd love to have Eloquence on iOS and Mac. I'm hard of hearing and have been using Eloquence for so long, I understand it better than I can understand my own family. Human-sounding voices tend to mumble a bit and be less clear than robotic ones.I have no problem with having lots of choices, and I hope Apple will add more voices including Eloquence but also human ones for people who like that.Accessibility is only as good as the number of people's needs that get met. I know that was an awkward sentence but...I really wish Apple would add a male voice to the US English voices because the female voice reminds me of an annoying backseat driver or a GPS.Alex on the Mac also has some really weird pronunciation and manages to mumble at low speed. So yeah, if Eloquence were added, I'd switch to it faster than you could say "go Apple!"Sara
I know my response here will make people angry, but I'm all about being realistic. As popular as eloquence is in the blind community, lets face it folks, it is old technology. The first time I heard it being used was when JAWS for Windows version 3.2 came out, and that was in the late 90s or early 2000s. It's 2014 now. It would make little to no sense for Apple, or nuance for that matter, to include a voice synthesizer that is 15 years old. This is why people might be able to use it in other screenreaders, (unofficially of course), but that's because someone took ttime to make a modification for it, and sadly, Apple and Nuance aren't going to go for this. They'd be more likely to use something a lot more modern like the accapella voices, the IVona voices or something else like Alex, which as we know will be included in iOS 8. I know that people have been able to jailbreak and get more voices, but not everyone wants to do that. Bottom line folks...don't look for eloquence any time soon.
The fact that Android, with no modifications, is offering eloquence contradicts your points. Then the x86 architecture is old and everyone still uses it, extended but bbasically the same throughout the years ... samething for eloquence: mainstream screen readers use it such as JAWS and window-eyes. It is popular in the blind comunity but voiceover is designed solely for use of this very same comunity ... so while I agree it is not likely to happen I reserv myself the right to disagree with you when it comes to the reazons ... and these are just two:1- Apple does not want to do it. And that is because they want their screen reader to sound diferently from others, byut their voices are regretting, staying dangerously near the unacceptable with each new release of their system!2- Neither nuance does want, because the contract for a more natural voice is possibly more rentable.
Hi! I am well aware that many people in the blind community prefer Eloquence, so I can understand their wish to have it in VoiceOver on IOS, which is made for people like us who can't read the screens of our i-devices, but, speaking for myself, if Eloquence ever comes to IOS, which seems highly unlikely as far as I can tell, I would prefer it to be an option I can ignore, and not the default voice. During the ten years or so I used JAWS, I never took to Eloquence myself, as I have always had a preference for more human-sounding voices: I found the slight lag from using such voices less difficult to put up with than having to use a voice I didn't enjoy hearing. I don't have a hearing problem or a wish to hear text spoken at extremely fast speeds, which I know would justify wanting Eloquence for some people. I've heard that Alex will be part of IOS, FOR 64-bit devices at least, and, having heard him on friends' Macs as I don't have one, I look forward to him being on my next iPhone, but otherwise I'm happy with the Vocalizer voices, although it would be nice to choose their gender as someone suggested above. I don't suppose the ivona voices will ever end up on IOS except as part of apps like Voice Dream Reader, but I agree that they are excellent, and for me they would be a better alternative to Vocalizer than Eloquence could ever be, as I have personally never liked the latter. But each to their own taste in voice synthesisers, and I can see where Eloquence fans are coming from, even if I can never agree with them about that synthesiser myself! 2ff7e9595c
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