Tag Results For: text-to-speech

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Listen & Speak: Virtual Foreign Language Teacher That Tests & Rates Your Pronunciation [Android]

Developed by 9spikes.com., Listen & Speak for Android is a free app that helps you improve your listening and speaking skills in various global languages by practising them through oral dictation. Listen & Speak sports an extensive online library, complete with various basic and advanced exercises in different foreign languages. The app uses your Android’s Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine [...] (more…)

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Voice Answer Is A Chat Bot & Speech Based Search Engine For iPhone/iPad

Siri might be good-looking and popular, but as is generally the case, beauty and brains are rarely found in one place. You can ask Siri to set reminders for you, and ask her what dress she is wearing, but when you come to think of it, Siri’s knowledge is quite limited, and more often than [...] (more…)

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Text2Speech: Enter Text To Hear It Read Out Loud While Offline [Cydia]

Siri might have become the most popular talking bot for iOS devices in the short while that it has been around, but it is not the only thing on an iPhone which can talk. Nor is it the pinnacle of automated speech. Text2Speech is a Cydia app which might be very different (and somewhat limited [...] (more…)

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Voice Brief: Listen To Emails, Weather & News Updates Even When Offline [iPhone]

Sometimes you are too lazy to do stuff which is important, and even your smartphone needs a touch of your hand to perform various tasks. Also, you might need to perform some functions while you are driving or doing something else in real-life. This is when voice commands come in really handy, and similarly, it [...] (more…)

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Speak To Hear A Sentence’s Translation With VoiceTranslator [WP7]

Most of us have used Google Translate at some point in time, or maybe you got the prompt pushed by the search giant automatically when you are on a webpage which is in any foreign language. Similar apps exist for Windows Phone 7 as well, like the recently covered Babylon Translator for Mango phones, but [...] (more…)

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QTranslate: Hot Key Supported Text Translator & Text-to-Speech Utility

When browsing through different websites, we often stumble upon text in a foreign language. Almost everyone knows about Google Translator and its usefulness when viewing web pages in another language, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could translate selected text without visiting Google Translator in your browser? If you are looking for an application [...] (more…)

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Knowtilus For iPhone: Talking Browser, Text Editor, RSS Reader & Translator [Free For Limited Time]

Knowtilus is an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which is so multipurpose and versatile that it is impossible to place it under one category. The app integrates a lot of useful features, and makes using your iOS device a much more enjoyable and productive experience. The biggest part of Knowtilus is its web [...] (more…)

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Text To Speech WAV: Transcribe Text To Speech & Save It To A WAV File

Text To Speech WAV is a handy text to speech utility that converts any text to WAV audio format, according to user defined bit rates. Unlike other applications of its kind, it also allows saving an audio file of the text to speech playback. You can also select the volume and playback speed. During testing, [...] (more…)

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Hear Your News Feeds Read Out With Aloud For Windows Phone 7

Despite the lack of an official Google Reader client, Windows Phone 7 has a lot of good feed reader apps (the likes of NewsSpot). Although Aloud is not the client of a popular news service, and you can’t import feeds from another service (like Google Reader) to the app either, but the concept behind it is [...] (more…)

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Clownfish: Translate Text, Enable Text-To-Speech & Voice Changer In Skype

Some days ago, we reviewed Skype Translate, a real-time chat translator for Skype that lets you translate text to and from different languages, enabling you to communicate with people from different parts of the world. Clownfish for Skype is another text translation service for Skype which, apart from text translation, hosts lots of other useful [...] (more…)

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Speak Up Lets You Read, Translate And Record Text With Ease

If you are in search of a text-to-speech application that can do more than just read text, give Speak Up a try. Speak Up is an open source, text-to-speech application that reads text, records speech, translates text using Google translator, allows you to toggle Windows Speech Recognition and record audio. Moreover, it lets you change [...] (more…)

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Enable Text-to-Speech Feature In Notepad++ With Speech

Notepad++ is one of the most powerful alternatives available to default Windows Notepad. Being an extensible application, it comes with a host of plug ins and extensions, making it one of the most useful text editors. Speech is a plugin for Notepad++ that enables the text-to-speech function. Using Speech, you can listen to either a [...] (more…)

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WebTalks Is A Text-To-Speech Based RSS Feed Reader For Your Android

Want to listen to your favorite RSS feeds on your Android? Then you must try WebTalks – a handy and simple-to-use RSS feed reader that uses Text-To-Speech (TTS) to read aloud RSS feeds from your favorite websites, Google Reader subscriptions, as well as from a wide range of top-ranked blogs/websites from all over the web [...] (more…)

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Gespeaker – Text To Speech Translation Utility For Ubuntu Linux

Gespeaker is an open source text to speech application for Linux users to instantly obtain vocal translations of entered text in many languages.You can change various parameters such as pitch, volume, speed reading and gap between a word and the text. It is designed for multilingual environments, so you can  run it on a system with [...] (more…)

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IVONA Is A High Quality Alternative To Stock Android Text-to-Speech Engine

The robotic monotone output of Android’s stock text-to-speech engine doesn’t sound all that pleasant when employed to speak large blocks of text. If you’re into TTS-based apps (the likes of Drive Safe.ly or GoogleReader Reading), you might want to try out IVONA Text-to-Speech HQ for Android, a TTS engine that has a more realistic-sounding output [...] (more…)