4 text-to-speech apps that will read online articles to you

Sometimes, it's better to listen than to read. When you bike, walk or drive, it's safer to keep your eyes focused on the world around you. Text-to-speech (TTS) offers a dilemma for listening to music, podcasts, or audiobooks. TTS can be a great way to catch up on articles you expect to read. For example, Mozilla's read-later service, Pocket, includes the ability to listen to articles.

TTS solves an imperceptibly different problem than the assistive voice capabilities available for the major platforms, such as iOS VoiceOver, Android TalkBack, Windows Narrator, Chromevox, and Mac VoiceOver. These tools typically read everything on a page--content plus navigation.

The following four TTS apps specialize in reading articles and documents you prefer. While all of these apps present text-to-speech inclinations, each app serves a slightly different set of needs. Some apps show the text as it is spoken, while others offer a variety of voices.

These apps work on iOS and support the capability to share an article from the browser to the app via the original iOS sharing system functions. Importantly, as of July 2017, all four of these apps are under active development: The iOS app for each was updated in June or July 2017 at least once.

Motoread provides a playlist-like app that reads a series of articles to you.

1.Texttospeech.onl

Text To Speech delivers human-like, personalized, and engaging user experience. It pursues more natural and expressive speech synthesis, we have developed technology that can pronounce challenging words than most humans. It is a free reader that supports all modern browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari.

For Educational use

Text To Speech is a kind of assistive innovation that peruse computerized text aloud. It is also known as read-aloud technology. This tool can take words on a digital device and convert them into an audio file. The software was initially developed to aid the visually impaired. This tool is handy for children who struggle with reading. Be that as it may, it can likewise help kids with writing and editing and even focusing. Various text to speech software are available on the web; the software them utilize a computerized voice. This software provides the user with access to choose the preferred gender and accent.

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Realistic Voice Generator: It generates realistic female and male voices on the fly. Save Audio as Wav or Mp3 files: Easily let you save your generated files as mp3 or Wav audio format. So, you listen to on the go.

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• E-Learning: Use it for word pronounce training or e-learning and essay reading. Now you can listen to stories when you get tired of reading.

2.Motoread

(iOS, Chrome, and Safari desktop extensions)

I think of Motoread as a podcatcher for articles: Send an article to the app, then listen to saved articles later. Chrome and Safari extensions let you add an article to your Motoread list from your desktop browser with a click. (As of early July 2017, an Android app is listed as "coming soon.")

The app reads articles in a single voice, although you may adjust the playback speed. You can also choose to display the text of the article as you listen. The app is free, although you can upgrade (for $1.99/month or $19.99/year) to get the ability to add an unlimited number of articles.

Voice Dream Reader highlights words as it reads. It offers many customizable presentation and voice choices.

2.Voice Dream Reader

(iOS, Android)

Voice Dream Reader shows the article's text being read and highlights each word as it is spoken. Since the app was initially developed as an assistive tool, you can adjust the font, spacing, size, and color of the text displayed during playback. Voice Dream supports adjustable playback speeds and allows you to customize pause time between sentences, too. You can select from several system voices, and set a preferred rate, pitch, and voice volume. You can also add documents to listen to Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, and other sources.

Voice Dream Reader typically costs $14.99, and a wide selection of additional voices are available for purchase, too--at the cost of up to $4.99 per view.

Speech Central shows the new paragraph being read. Versions of the app are open for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

3.Speech Central

(iOS, macOS, Windows, Android)

Speech Central works on more platforms than any other apps here, with apps available for iOS, Windows, macOS, and Android (although the app is available from Amazon, not the Google Play store). It also supports reading text from other formats, such as PDF, Word, and more. On iOS, the app supports the system voices, although you can customize the voice pitch and the default 1x speed to be slightly faster or slower.

Speech Central shows the text, with a subtle colored vertical line displayed along the left side of the paragraph's text as it is spoken. The app will announce the estimated reading time for longer articles, which may be useful if you listen to while traveling, and you can change the playback speed (between .8x and 2x default speed). Speech Central also offers the ability to shuffle voices, so you don't have to listen to several articles in a row read with the same synthesized voice.

The desktop platform apps are not free, at $6.99 for macOS and $9.99 for Windows 10, although the mobile apps are free, with an optional one-time $4.99 upgrade that gives you the ability to add unlimited articles.

Audiobook Maker defaults to a one-word-a-time display that shows each word as it is read.

4.Audiobook Maker

(iOS)

Audiobook Maker was the only app of the four to correctly pronounce the words "live" and "Livestream" with the default voice setting. All the other apps uttered the four-letter word "live" incorrectly for the context as if it rhymed with "give." Audiobook Maker marked it correctly: "Live" rhymes with "hive."

Audiobook Maker also was the unique app with the option to display one word at a time, centered on the screen. It also offered a chance to highlight the word being read, while showing the surrounding text, in an adjustable size font. As with other apps, you can adjust the speed and select from several voices and languages.

Audiobook Maker development is still in process. For example, the app also includes using your camera to take a photo of book pages to be read. But when I took a picture of a page from a book, I saw a "less than a minute remaining" message that never left. To be fair, the iOS app is named "Audiobook Maker - Early Adopters." The core functionality of text-to-speech works and the app is free (as of July 2017).