If the text you need to read is a hard copy, not a digital file, that’s no problem too: just photograph the page, and ReadAloud will scan and read the image.
Another popular application for this technology was Narrator’s Voice, which allowed users to brighten up their messages by having them read aloud by virtual voices.
ReadAloud is a simple but sophisticated app which can take any text of your choice: websites, emails, ebooks, PDFs, Word documents….
ReadAloud can handle almost any text, in a wide range of formats.
You can easily upload text in a number of common formats, including .txt, Rich Text Format, Word documents and PDFs.
The Browser page also includes a search bar to find the content of your choice, and will remember your search history so you can find that fascinating story when you want to listen again.
Alexa can be found on Amazon’s Echo smart speakers, while Siri is available on a range of Apple products, from iPads to Apple Watches.
Save money too- instead of paying $20 for an audiobook, or $15 for an Audible subscription, borrow ebooks from Hoopla or ZLibrary, or get free stories from Wattpad, iReader, or Goodreads, and convert them to audio.
ReadAloud represents the next generation of TTS apps, allowing the user to listen to entire books and webpages instead of just short messages.
But what if the book you want to listen to isn’t available on Audible? No problem if you have ReadAloud.
Read Aloud will also read images of text.
TTS is a rapidly developing area of artificial intelligence which uses software to analyze text and convert it to human-sounding speech.
The flipside of text-to-speech technology is audio-to-text (ATT), which takes audio files and converts them to documents.
It can read aloud in 21 languages, from Arabic to Welsh.