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Automatik Text Reader. Automatik Text Reader was a free and open source add-on for Firefox providing text-to-speech functions available from the Mozilla Add-ons collection. It supports multiple languages and accents and is capable of autonomously recognizing the language of written text and activating the respective speech synthesis engine. [1]
Speechify is a mobile, chrome extension and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer-generated text to speech voice. [1][2][3] The app also uses optical character recognition technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio. [4][5] The app lets users take photos of text and then listen to it read out loud. [6]
And in 2005 Charles L. Chen devised Fire Vox, an extension that adds speech capabilities to the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Mac, Windows, or Linux. [4] A second important category are broader self-voicing applications that function as what T. V. Raman calls "complete audio desktops", [5] including editing, browsing, and even gaming capabilities.
eSpeak. eSpeak is a free and open-source, cross-platform, compact, software speech synthesizer. It uses a formant synthesis method, providing many languages in a relatively small file size. eSpeakNG (Next Generation) is a continuation of the original developer's project with more feedback from native speakers. Because of its small size and many ...
FreeTTS is an open source speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java programming language. It is based upon Flite. FreeTTS is an implementation of Sun 's Java Speech API. FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers. Gnopernicus uses these in a number of places: to know when text should and should not be interrupted, to better concatenate ...
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic ...
NeoSpeech. NeoSpeech Inc. is an American company that specializes in text-to-speech (TTS) software for embedded devices, mobile, desktop, and network/server applications. NeoSpeech was founded by two speech engineers, Lin Chase and Yoon Kim, in Fremont, California, US, in 2002. NeoSpeech is privately held, headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley [1] at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Substantial contributions have also been provided by Carnegie Mellon University and other sites.