Speech Central Alternatives

Speech Central is described as '? The best text-to-speech experience - our proprietary engine significantly enhances the output of Apple's voices and AI voices (OpenAI, Azure, Google) by infusing their readings with emotion and variation' and is a Text to Speech service. There are more than 50 alternatives to Speech Central for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Android and iPhone apps. The best Speech Central alternative is Balabolka, which is free. Other great apps like Speech Central are Read Aloud Extension, NaturalReader, Kokoro and eSpeak.

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  1. Announcify (formerly known as SayMyName) reads out loud the caller's name. Announcify reads out loud every website you want. For example, if you're too tired but still need to study one more Wikipedia entry, Announcify can help your tired eyes relax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Chrome OS
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  2. New entry is automatically added w/ text copied from apps. New entry is automatically synthesized / spoken. Keep playing entries in listing when Continuous Play is enabled. Highlight spoken words while text is spoken, when option is enabled. etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. loudkit icon
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    loudkit is an open-source text-to-speech engine that runs on your own hardware. It ships two models, loudr-1 and the faster loudr-1-turbo, with 28 voices across ten languages (Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish), and it can...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Docker
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  4. Voxdazz icon
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    Create entertaining videos and content using AI-powered celebrity voices. With Voxdazz's easy-to-use platform, you can generate natural-sounding celebrity voiceovers and share fun moments with friends.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. RoboVoice icon
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    Easily convert text to WAV audio files and use them directly in other programs via drag and drop!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. iPlayText icon
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    iPlayText reads text to you. It turns wikipedia articles into podcasts. It gives your tired eyes a rest.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  7. vozMe icon
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    vozMe is a simple online ‘text to speech’ program that lets you type-in any English or Spanish (also Italian, Portoguese and Hindi) text and then play it as an audio stream. Streams also can be downloaded and saved as standard MP3 files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Joomla
    • Blogger
    • Wordpress
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  8. Too busy to read your articles from your favorite websites? Speaky is a very efficient way to solve that problem: you don't have to read yourself anymore; Speaky does it for you.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  9. Convert any source of text to speech. With specific features for handling PDF files, Starfield Reader allows selected of chapters of eBooks be converted into WAV/MP3 files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. 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.

    90 Bark (AI) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  11. ClaroRead icon
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    ClaroRead is an assistive technology software helping to readers with dyslexia to read aloud and providing word-prediction options for struggling writers.

    77 ClaroRead alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
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