Spokeninbox
Spokeninbox turns email newsletters into audio. It gives you a private Spokeninbox email address. Subscribe newsletters to it or forward any email, and each message lands in your Spokeninbox inbox ready to play. Press Play and a natural AI voice reads the message, with clutter like buttons, raw links and legal footers removed. Each email is read in its own language: English, Spanish or Russian. You can also add article links, pasted text and PDFs. Playback continues with your phone locked, and each device remembers where you stopped. Spokeninbox never logs in to your mailbox or asks for your email password. Available on the web, iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. Free plan with 60 minutes of listening a month; paid plans start at $9.99 a month for 10 hours.
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NaturalReader
NaturalReader is a downloadable text-to-speech desktop software for personal use. This easy-to-use software with natural-sounding voices can read to you any text such as Microsoft Word files, webpages, PDF files, and E-mails. Available with a one-time payment for a perpetual license. OCR can be used to convert screenshots of text from eBook desktop apps, such as Kindle, into speech and audio files. Adjust reading margins to skip reading from headers and footnotes on the page. You can manually modify the pronunciation of a certain word. OCR function can convert printed characters into digital text. This allows you to listen to your printed files or edit it in a word-processing program. OCR can be used to convert screenshots of text from eBook desktop apps, such as Kindle, into speech and audio files. Adjust reading margins to skip reading from headers and footnotes on the page.
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Aloud
Aloud is a native macOS text-to-speech app for listening to selected text, PDFs, screenshots, images, and web articles. It reads selections from other Mac apps, can skip PDF headers, footers, and page numbers, recognize scanned pages and image text on-device, and highlight words as they are spoken. Users can control playback in a small floating reader, resume recent readings, adjust speed, set pronunciations, and export audio as M4A. Voices include those installed on macOS and the optional Kokoro neural voice, which runs locally on supported Macs. Users may also connect their own ElevenLabs or Cartesia API key for cloud voices, with those providers billing usage separately. Aloud is designed for Mac users who want to listen while working with documents, research, writing, or web content. It requires macOS 14 or later and is sold as a one-time purchase.
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Speechify
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Speechify is the #1 text-to-speech program that turns any written text into spoken words in natural-sounding language. We have both free and premium subscriptions and over 150,000 5-star reviews. You can use our text editor, our Google Chrome Extension, our iOS app, our Mac Desktop app, or our Android app. Speechify users are students, working professionals, and people who like speed-listening.
Turn any text into natural sounding audio instantly with the leading TTS software. Speechify text to speech software can read aloud up to 9x faster than the average reading speed, so you can learn even more in less time.
Speechify is a powerful and easy-to-use software that lets you easily create high-quality voiceovers. Narrate text, videos, explainers, slides, books – anything – in any style. Our voiceover product is perfect for businesses, content creators, podcasters, video editors, and anyone else who needs to add professional-quality voiceovers to their projects.
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