Among the most curious web utilities in the internet world and among the most interesting programs there is the new generation of applications for the artificial production of the human voice. This system is called speech synthesizer, and can be implemented via software or hardware.
A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts text into speech with a real voice, in order to make the computer speak and make it read aloud what is being written. Conversely, other systems transcribe the human voice such as those used for telephone conversations.
READ ALSO: TTS on Android, app to hear texts and web pages aloud
Browsing the internet and looking for text-to-speech you will find many programs, the problem however is finding free programs that reproduce the natural human voice of an Italian.
The best site I found is Oddcast is an online multilingual speech synthesizer with different voices and different characters. In practice, you type or paste a text to read in the appropriate field, choose the language (there is also Italian) and the reader (various male or female characters with a real person name) begins to pronounce it. The characters have different tones and vocal timbres, but it is not possible to intervene on the speed of the pronunciation. Furthermore, our "readings" cannot be saved as audio files. On another page there are other web applications with moving images of the Oddcast.
The voice is very human, precise and natural, reproduces exclamations, recognizes punctuation and speaks correct Italian. For the English language only it is possible to choose whether to reproduce the text with the male or female voice while for the other languages only the male one is available. The only difficulty is that you have to select the type of Italian keyboard and that the symbols, such as the question mark, are moved compared to the common keyboard that we use in Italy. The audio of an article from a blog or newspaper can be brought to your site and there is also a widget with html code to bring the tts tool to your website and let the blog speak (also useful to give support to those who have vision problems or is blind). Unfortunately, the limit is because hindsight I would have mentioned only this and many greetings to the rest.
A beautiful online web program to synthesize the voice and transform a written thing into audio, is Intranslator (ex text-to-speech-translator) in which you can choose the voice language between Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Korean and Russian. On this site it is very nice the drawing of a man (even a woman but only for the English language) who will also move his mouth and will speak really and naturally saying what is written on the sheet.
The Google Translate website allows the computer to be spoken in all languages. You can listen to any text that is written in the translation box. To use it, open the site, paste the text copied from any site or type with the keyboard on the left box and, without needing to search for the translation, set the Italian and then press the listening button at the bottom, near the microphone . Google's voice is natural, respect punctuation and speak any language perfectly.
To see your face speak can be a pleasant experience to try Photoface even if it only has the English language for text-to-speech.
Other online Text to speech services allow websites to be read by voice directly from the browser.
To make the computer speak and make it read what is being written, you can download the free Dimio program which saves the written text in an mp3 or wav file so that you can listen to it from any mp3 player. Dimio allows you to select different voices and combine them together to create dialogues between multiple voices.
It also integrates a voice recognition system which, through a simple script language, allows you to create interactive dialogues with the user.
Among other functions it also allows you to dynamically vary the characteristics of the voices during playback (speed, volume and frequency).
In another article, we talk about the best free programs to read texts converted into audio, with the voice of the computer.
A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts text into speech with a real voice, in order to make the computer speak and make it read aloud what is being written. Conversely, other systems transcribe the human voice such as those used for telephone conversations.
READ ALSO: TTS on Android, app to hear texts and web pages aloud
Browsing the internet and looking for text-to-speech you will find many programs, the problem however is finding free programs that reproduce the natural human voice of an Italian.
The best site I found is Oddcast is an online multilingual speech synthesizer with different voices and different characters. In practice, you type or paste a text to read in the appropriate field, choose the language (there is also Italian) and the reader (various male or female characters with a real person name) begins to pronounce it. The characters have different tones and vocal timbres, but it is not possible to intervene on the speed of the pronunciation. Furthermore, our "readings" cannot be saved as audio files. On another page there are other web applications with moving images of the Oddcast.
The voice is very human, precise and natural, reproduces exclamations, recognizes punctuation and speaks correct Italian. For the English language only it is possible to choose whether to reproduce the text with the male or female voice while for the other languages only the male one is available. The only difficulty is that you have to select the type of Italian keyboard and that the symbols, such as the question mark, are moved compared to the common keyboard that we use in Italy. The audio of an article from a blog or newspaper can be brought to your site and there is also a widget with html code to bring the tts tool to your website and let the blog speak (also useful to give support to those who have vision problems or is blind). Unfortunately, the limit is because hindsight I would have mentioned only this and many greetings to the rest. A beautiful online web program to synthesize the voice and transform a written thing into audio, is Intranslator (ex text-to-speech-translator) in which you can choose the voice language between Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Korean and Russian. On this site it is very nice the drawing of a man (even a woman but only for the English language) who will also move his mouth and will speak really and naturally saying what is written on the sheet.
The Google Translate website allows the computer to be spoken in all languages. You can listen to any text that is written in the translation box. To use it, open the site, paste the text copied from any site or type with the keyboard on the left box and, without needing to search for the translation, set the Italian and then press the listening button at the bottom, near the microphone . Google's voice is natural, respect punctuation and speak any language perfectly.
To see your face speak can be a pleasant experience to try Photoface even if it only has the English language for text-to-speech.
Other online Text to speech services allow websites to be read by voice directly from the browser.
To make the computer speak and make it read what is being written, you can download the free Dimio program which saves the written text in an mp3 or wav file so that you can listen to it from any mp3 player. Dimio allows you to select different voices and combine them together to create dialogues between multiple voices.
It also integrates a voice recognition system which, through a simple script language, allows you to create interactive dialogues with the user.
Among other functions it also allows you to dynamically vary the characteristics of the voices during playback (speed, volume and frequency).
In another article, we talk about the best free programs to read texts converted into audio, with the voice of the computer.
