Listening AlternativesText to Speech Services and other similar apps like Listening

Listening is described as 'Transform your research experience with Listening, the world's first app that turns academic papers into high-quality audio content. Trusted by over 50,000 students and researchers, Listening helps you save time by letting you listen to papers anywhere, in your spare time' and is a Text to Speech service in the office & productivity category. There are seven alternatives to Listening for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Listening alternative is Balabolka, which is free. Other great apps like Listening are Cloud TTS, Text To Speech AI Voices, @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) and Bark (AI).

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  1. Balabolka icon
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    Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT...

    70 Balabolka alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. Cloud TTS icon
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    CloudTTS is a straightforward text-to-speech application. Simply type in or paste the text you'd like to hear, and it reads it back to you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Transform text into realistic human-like voices across multiple languages. Convert books, documents, images, and PDFs with customizable speed and volume for personalized listening. Save content offline and access your digital library on any device.

    31 Text To Speech AI Voices alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. Listen to the app read aloud or read on screen web pages, news articles, long emails, TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documents, ebooks (EPUB, MOBI, PRC, AZW and FB2), and more. It's an HTML reader, document reader and ebook reader all in one.

    6 @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. Bark (AI) icon
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    Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model created by Suno. Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  6. TexVoz icon
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    TexVoz is the best online text to speech converter with natural sounding voices. Available in 65 languages ??and more than 400 voices with different accents. Download your audios as mp3. Create stunning audios for audiobooks, narration, E-learning.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Voice Out icon
     Like

    Read aloud any webpage, Google Doc, PDF, or book with text to speech (TTS). Natural sounding voices in 30+ languages & 130 voices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
     
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