Tag: TEXT-TO-SPEECH

BuzzVoice is a cool service/app that reads news stories and blog posts to you. It works on any computer, iPhone, or Android smartphone. BuzzVoice has a database of over 1,600 sources, which includes the biggest news sites and the most well-known blogs. As they like to say, it's like "Pandora for news." The easiest way to think about BuzzVoice is something along the lines of instant podcasts from ...

While the author's guild may have problems with software that can convert eBooks to poorly pronounced audiobooks, there are a lot of good reasons you might want to convert text to speech. It can make written documents accessible for visually impaired people. Or you can listen to the morning paper while riding the subway or driving your car to work. Online conversion service Zamzar recently added ...

There's no shortage of services out there that let you convert text to poorly pronounced, mechanical sounding speech. But SpokenText has a few cool features that you don't see too often. Not only can you convert Word, PDF, PowerPoint, TXT, or HTML documents to audio files, but there's also a Firefox extension that lets you select text from any website. Here are a few other features that make ...