hi, anybody knows which is the best text-to-speech software out there?

Question

Anybody knows which is the best text-to-speech software out there?
To read text in Word and web browser. Please share your experience. Thanks!

Answer 1

YAKiToMe! http://www.yakitome.com is the best free text to speech website. It has the most free voices, mainly from AT&T, which has one of the world's best TTS engines. It has great features for turning text into mp3 podcasts. Check it out

Answer 2

Try a program called TypeIt ReadIt. It is one of the best text-to-speech freeware programs. There are some nice tutorials that will show the whole program in about 10 mins. http://www.schoolfreeware.com

Answer 3

http://www.naturalreaders.com/

Free Natural Reader 7 is, well, free.

It will give you the necessary tools for text-to-speech usage.



http://www.readplease.com/

This isn't free but I think you have a trial or you can download the free version. Not sure.



http://www.text-to-speech-software.com/

This isn't free either. It only has trial version. It has a simple UI.



http://www.spacejock.com/yRead.html

This is free. This is for XP and Vista users.



http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/

Not free. Free trial only. Requires very little things for it to work properly.

Answer 4

Dragon Naturallyspeaking has TTS (text-to-speech) RealSpeak a pretty good one. You can download trial version from here. But the size is huge!



http://www.filesland.com/companies/Nuance-Communications-Inc/Dragon-NaturallySpeaking.html