And just like Capti Voice, you can upload documents from cloud storage lockers such as Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.Ĭurrently, you can access 56 natural-sounding voices in nine different languages, including American English, British English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. Aimed more at personal use, the solution allows you to convert written text such as Word and PDF documents, ebooks and web pages into human-like speech.īecause the software is underpinned by cloud technology, you’re able to access it from wherever you go via a smartphone, tablet or computer. I don’t know if they have their own TTS engine or use an external one.If you’re looking for a cloud-based speech synthesis application, you should definitely check out NaturalReader. Linguatec looks like a small German company. And for me the most important factor is still the ease of listening and understanding of text even with a complex structure. Yet, the new version can also read pdf and word documents from file. I basically copy all texts that I want to read into the GUI window. However, I don't like their GUI and integration as much. Linguatec just did an update which I have been using for a few weeks now and the quality improved even more. I then found the VoiceReader Home by Linguatec (49 Euro per voice) which did a very good job and I haven't found a better solution for myself since then. However, it turned out that the way parts of the sentences were stressed made it really hard to understand scientific texts. I am surprised how little progress the consumer TTS products have made since then.įirst I bought TextAloud by NextUp because in the web samples the voices sounded natural.
I did some research on the topic in 2007 and tried several text to speech systems to read articles or convert them to mp3.
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