text to speech
Infovox iVox 2.0b
Infovox iVox is a very powerful program which provides Mac OS X users with the best text-to-speech voices ever on the Mac. more>>
Infovox iVox 2.0b is a very powerful program which provides Mac OS X users with the best text-to-speech voices ever on the Mac. You won't believe your ears hearing these natural-sounding voices, available in many different languages. What is more, they can be used in any Mac OS X application that uses speech.
The Infovox iVox voices, once installed on the computer, appear in the Speech panel of the System Preferences and can be used by any application that has speech functionality, including Preview, TextEdit, Mail, Microsoft Word (through its Speech toolbar), VisioVoice, Proloquo, GhostReader, Acrobat, AppleScript, Automator, Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh (version 3.0.4. and higher), TextHelp Read and Write Gold for Mac (version 2.1 and higher) and many others.
You can also use Infovox iVox with Mac OS X built-in speech and accessibility features. Including the Mac OS X built-in VoiceOver screen reader. Infovox iVox includes all voices available for a language of choice. The following languages are available: American English, British English, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, Spanish, American Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Infovox iVox voices are sold per language with each language consisting of one or more male and/or female voices. All languages contain the American English Heather voice as a bonus. American English even includes two child voices. If you want to have multiple languages, you can buy Infovox iVox plus one or more language packs at half price.
Major Features:
- Listen to the text you are writing in your own language with, for example, TextEdit or Proloquo.
- Listen to PDF documents through the text-to-speech features in Acrobat Reader, Preview, GhostReader or VisioVoice with the best voices ever on the Mac.
- Convert text to audio files and even directly to iTunes with a wonderful clarity and intonation using GhostReader, Proloquo or VisioVoice. (Note that the license only permits distribution of audio files if the content is personal and the files are not broadcast or distributed for commercial purposes.)
- Use Infovox iVox clear and reliable voices with VoiceOver, the Mac OS X built-in screen reader. Non-English users now have the possibility to hear all the VoiceOver menus and messages in their own language by using Infovox iVox.
- Use the naturally-sounding voices with Mac OS X built-in speech features.
- Combine the best voices on the Mac with accessibility software, including AssistiveWare's Proloquo, KeyStrokes, SwitchXS.
- Let your children learn to read and write better in their own or foreign languages by using Infovox iVox with educational software such as ConvenienceWare GhostReader, TextHelp's Read and Write Gold for Mac (version 2.1.0 and higher) and Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh (Versions 3.0.4 and 4.0 and higher).
- Use with any Apple Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X software, including AppleScript.
- In other words, enjoy your Mac more than ever by listening to Acapela's golden tones in your own language!
Requirements:
- Infovox iVox 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, but Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later is recommended.
- Minimum recommended hardware: G3/G4/G5 900 Mhz with 512 MB or any Intel Mac.
Niemeijer Consult - many users as a good-quality and useful solution for Mac OS X users with the best text-to-speech voices ever on the Mac. Infovox iVox. Infovox iVox 2.0 is popularLicense:update/patch
Coccinella 0.96.14
Coccinella is designed to be a free and open source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. more>>
Coccinella 0.96.14 is designed to be a free and open source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.
Major Features:
- Communicate with Whiteboard: Sketch to explain your words. Collaborate on diagrams. Enter mathematical formulas like on paper. Draw together for fun. You decide how you visually communicate.
- Communicate with Voice: Handsfree communication for people who love multitasking. Discusing fast file transfer. Send files in real-time to your contacts.
- Communicate with Multiple People: Chat with multiple people in a virtual room. Team up in a multi-use. See what your contacts are doing. See their emotions.
- Communicate with Everybody: Instant message with people on all legacy chat systems. Interact with people ustry-standard XMPP protocol, including Google Talk, Apple iChat and Nokia Chat.
- Some Other Features
- Portable Coccinella on USB stick
- Multi-lingual and internationalized
- Plugin system
- MeBeam plugin
- Search people in dictionary
- Avatars and emoticons
- Themes
- Secured connections (TLS and SASL)
- GPLv3 license
- QuickTime integration in whiteboard (Mac OS X and Windows)
- Text-to-speech (Mac OS X and Windows)
- Compression support to save bandwidth
- Proxy support
- Contact actions (buddy pounces)
- Innovative auto-away features
- Logout on laptop sleep (Mac OS X)
Enhancements:
- /Clean and /retain commands
- Release of new icon themes
- Option to select sound device
- Fixed whiteboard file transfer
- Fixed annoying bug when typing long texts in chat dialog
- Fixed external IP detection
Requirements:
- Run under Mac OS X 10.2 and higher
- Integrates very well in the Mac OS X interface.
CK's Text-to-Speech to MP3 0.93
CKs Text-to-Speech to MP3 is created to make your life more comfortable. more>>
CK's Text-to-Speech to MP3 0.93 is created to make your life more comfortable.
This package includes several applications:- Safari Selection to MP3 File
Just select some text in Safari, then run this program to make an MP3 file. - Clipboard to MP3 File
Select text in any application, copy it, then run this program to convert it to an MP3 file. - Drag-n-Drop-Text to AIFF
Drag text files and convert them to AIFF files spoken by MacinTalk. - TextEdit to MP3
Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an MP3 file spoken by MacinTalk. - TextEdit to AIFF
Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an AIFF file spoken by MacinTalk. - DJ Track Names to AIFF
Gives your iPod or iTunes a DJ announcing tunes and artists.
Major Features:
- It is pretty much a "hands off" operation
- It'll use your preferred voice, chosen in System preferences.
- It'll use your preferred MP3 encoding rate, chosen in iTunes.
- Make podcasts of blogs or other web pages.
- Make your own "audio books" from downloadable free e-texts of books.
- Create sound files saying every track in a playlist, so you can get a DJ on your iPod.
CKs Text-to-Speech to MP3 is designed to support users to easily create audio files that you can put on your iPod. CK's Text-to-Speech
Master Spell 5.5
Master Spell is a comprehensive and powerful program which administers spelling drills using audio recordings and the Macs Plaintalk Text-to-Speech and features 3,690 words for all levels, Dolch Lists, preview presentation, a built-in Test Editor with voice recorder and many network options for school use. more>>
Master Spell 5.5 is a comprehensive and powerful program which administers spelling drills using audio recordings and the Mac's Plaintalk Text-to-Speech and features 3,690 words for all levels, Dolch Lists, preview presentation, a built-in Test Editor with voice recorder and many network options for school use.
Major Features:
- Includes definitions or example sentences with words for 1st Grade all the way to those commonly misspelled and difficult words for adults. The 1st through 5th Grade is divided into Dolch lists with core words for each grade level.
- Reinforcement is done by short-term memory by previewing words before drilling and retrying for half-credit. Achieving mastery gives the student a goal with a progress bar and a certificate printout once accomplished.
- Corrections are spelled visibly and audibly. A running list of trouble words can be reviewed, integrated with drills, saved as tests, and printed.
- Includes a test editor with voice recorder to record your own words and sentences, provisions for alternate spellings, an interactive chatty owl, a Hangman game, and lots of options for multiple-users and networks for installation at schools.
- The software is maintained and updated and has been for over 10 years
- Uses the network efficiently by only storing dynamic information on it
- Optional two-tier password system
- Optionally hide the desktop
- Preferences can be centrally controlled or templated for user control
- Prompt technical support by email
- The most options for network setup
- Master Spell Groups and Users can be created quickly with Passenger
Enhancements:
- Reorganzied main window and added alphabet buttons to help younger users
- Mastery is now determined by progress of spelling all the words correctly in a given test
- Words answered correctly are added to a mastered words list kept with the pupil file and those words are only drilled again if there aren't enough words in the current test that aren't mastered
- Previewing now asks user if they want to preview
- Preview is now in different random order from drill
- Removed most admonishing sounds and remarks and removed the option
- Adjusted sound effects for volume and proper playback
- Fixed several small issues with the Test Editor including editing voice recordings on the network
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 - 10.6.x
MacinMind Software - spelling drills using audio recordings and the Macs Plaintalk Text-to-Speech and features 3,690 words for all levels. Master Spell
FoxLingo 2.4.2
FoxLingo 2.4.2 is a powerful language tool that gives you easy access to sites in foreign languages. more>>
FoxLingo 2.4.2 is a powerful language tool that gives you easy access to sites in foreign languages. It is the first meta-translator, linked to thirty-six free online translators, enabling you to translate between fifty-three languages in over 2,000 different language pairs. Foxlingo has been downloaded over two million times by people all over the world.
Major Features:
- Web Page Translation - Translates full web pages (over 2,000 different language pairs)
- Translated Search - Searches foreign pages using terms written in your language
- Auto Translation - Automatically translates websites by recognizing their domain
- Text Translation - Translates text entered in the search box or selected on any web page
- Language Resources - Over 90 language services (encyclopedias, text-to-speech, etc.)
- Grammar Check - Proofreads texts (grammar, spelling, punctuation and style)
- Ixquick - Metasearch engine with unique features, language search and complete privacy
- Learning Languages - Over 100 links to language learning sites for a variety of languages
- Freeware - FoxLingo is completely free and contains no adware or spyware
- Complete Privacy - FoxLingo does not take any information from its users
Enhancements:
- Added new Fixed compatibility issues with Firefox 3.5 final
- Fixed Seamonkey bugs
- Fixed Albanian, Estonian, and Maltese toolbar flags not in default set
TextSpeech Pro 3.4.4
Easy to use application that will allow your Mac to read text using natural sounding voices. more>>
Major Features:
- Built on the latest text to speech technology
- Synthesize text-to-speech from any document format (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) using a variety of voices and languages
- Read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools
- Export the synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats in three modes (quick, normal and batch)
- Create and modify conversations, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) in a document using an advanced text-to-speech editor
- Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses) on the fly
- Extract text from scanned documents and convert it to speech or audio files
- Create custom pronunciations using a universal correction system
- Save the created documents with all specified voice settings and entities (voice type, pitch, speed, volume, bookmarks, conversations, pauses, word highlighting) for future use
- Pause, resume or stop the speaking voice
- Tune the speech output using standard XML tags
- Use a fully featured document editor with many text processing features (text manipulation, spell checker, print and print preview, find and replace, go to line..., customizable fonts, zoom capabilities, and document properties view)
- Mark copied text to be automatically transferred and converted to speech
- Access previously used documents from a high-capacity document history
- Utilize a rich and fully configurable user interface (UI) equipped with customizable window docks, toolbars, a multi-tabbed document interface and a layout-saving framework
- Web integration improved.
- Language support improved.
read text using natural sounding voices. TextSpeech Pro is a professional text-to-speech software product built on the latest text to speech technology. Main features: - Lets your computerLicense:Freeware
wxCode 1.0.2
A collection of reusable components based on the cross-platform wxWidgets GUI toolkit more>> Texplore is a fast text editor with a simple macro system and a set of HTML macros for Web page editing. It also makes reading text documents on your screen easier with its smooth auto-scrolling capabilities.
The intent of Texplore is to save paper and trees, a very important issue these days with the rampant clear-cutting of forests and destruction of natural habitat for the millions of other species on this planet. It works!
Fast multi-window text editor with HTML formating macros, HTML syntax coloring, HTML view, color picker for backgrounds and text, automatic outline window, Find and Replace commands, Text-to-Speech and smooth scroll.
Features:
Undo (for typing, Cut, Paste, Clear, Replace, and Macro commands)
Minimal font menu for fast startup
Option for full font menu
Font Size menu
Find, Find Again and Replace commands
Multiple file editing with an automatically numbered window menu
Easily programmable macros
Includes a set of HTML macros for Web page editing
Syntax coloring to hilite strings and HTML tags
Make Paragraph command to reconnect broken paragraphs from e-mail messages
Send to Browser command to open the top document in Netscape Navigator web browser during web page development.<<less
Talk To Me 1
Free Yahoo! talking widget for your Mac more>> Free Yahoo! talking widget for your Mac
Talk To Me is a free Yahoo! widget that talks to you. Just type text into the speech bubble and press the "Talk To Me!" Its always funny to hear the computer voice!
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- This the first version.
- Let me know of any bugs.
VoiceChatter 1.1.3
Free, cross-platform voice communication (chat) application more>> Free, cross-platform voice communication (chat) application
Voice Chatter is a free, cross-platform voice communication (chat) application. It was designed with gaming in mind, but can be used for many other purposes.
Now you can have the best voice quality available on your platform of choice.
Voice Chatter uses UDP for communication for the fastest possible communication. This is why Voice Chatter is capable of providing such low latency for voice communication.It also makes the network code a lot simpler and more efficient.
If someone is dropping a lot of voice packets, they are simply dropped rather than guaranteed to be played at some later time. This also means that there are no more "recaps" of conversations long over like in other voice communication software.
NOTE: Voice Chatter is still under heavy development, but the feature set is large enough to be useful in the general case.
Main features:
- Talk with friends, family, or teammates over a fast and clear connection
- Ability to use text chat for anyone without a microphone
- Support for all 3 major platforms
- Admin features including kick/ban and move clients
- Saved server list for easily managing any servers that you use
- Password protected servers and channels
- Nested channels
- Codec quality/bandwidth usage control
- Support for ALSA, Windows MME, DirectSound, and CoreAudio
- Voice activated transmission
- User comments
- Text to speech and/or audio file event notifications
- Automatic microphone volume normalization
Enhancements
- Fixed a bug in sending chat messages that would prepend an extra character
- Added ability to specify a specific network interface for the server to bind to (IPv4 only)
- Added ability to specify where the server will write its log file
- Added task bar icon functionality and the ability to minimize to the taskbar (windows/linux only)
- Fixed a crash when disconnecting a remote admin connection soon after sending a command
- Added a native input manager for mac, which should substantially improve input latency
- Note: If you happen to experience a crash on startup with the mac port of this version, try opening ~/.voicechatter/vchat.conf and set "Use Native Input Manager" to "false". If you run into this issue, please post on the forums to let me know.
Java Speech API 0.1
A wrapper for vendors to simplify usage of the Java Speech API more>> A wrapper for vendors to simplify usage of the Java Speech API
Java Speech API is a wrapper for vendors to simplify usage of the Java Speech API (JSR 113). Note that the spec is an untested early access and that there may be changes in the API.
Enhancements
- First release of a base layer for sphinx4 and FreeTTS.
Mumble 1.1.8
Open source, low-latency and high-quality voice communications tool primarily intended for use while gaming more>> Open source, low-latency and high-quality voice communications tool primarily intended for use while gaming
A low-latency, high-quality voice communications tool primarily intended for use while gaming. It is open source, licensed under the revised BSD license, and runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Mumble includes game linking, so that voice from other players comes from the direction of their in-game location, and also provides echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers wont be audible to other players.
System requirements:
- Sound output device (headphones or loudspeakers)
- Microphone
Enhancements
- Murmur now uses even less resources, and only starts worker threads for virtual servers on demand.
- Ice now has callback functions, allowing you to create server-side scripts that react to users authenticating, moving around etc. It also supports outsourcing authentication, enabling you to do authorize users from a third-party database. Additionally, the Ice interface has been fully documented.
- You can now use images in the server welcome text and text messages, using regular HTML tags.
- From the server, you can add context menu items to the server, player and channel menu on the client, enabling third-party feature extensions. Theres a small example included which enables in-client user registrations.
- The windows installer is now fully localized.
- Positional audio should now give more natural results, and we support a lot of additional games.
- Log messages can now be shown as notifications using a baloon tip, notify or Growl. Additionally, text-to-speech can be replaced with pre-recorded sounds.
- You can now bind multiple shortcuts to every function.
- The overlay now works on OSX, but is considered experimental.
JayReader 1.0B
JayReader is a tool to read texts. more>>
Major Features:
- Plays speech from the start of the document, the selected text, or from the cursor to the end of the document.
- You can pause or continue that speech.
- You can change the speed of the speech.
- It will Highlight what it is saying if you want.
- Nothing else that isn't just a giveaway from the OS X text input system.
Enhancements:
- Initial release
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Webvoice 1.0
Free and open source text to speech app more>> Free and open source text to speech app
Webvoice is a text to speech CGI program. You can embed a link in a HTML page to send things you want to say, via sound. No software is required on the client side.
Webvoice needs Festival and Sox are on the server. Webvoice has its own interface, if you need one.
Text to Audio File 1.1
This app creates small AIFF files out of the text you give it. It uses Leopard’s new realistic human-like voice to create rich, uninterrupted audio files. more>> <<less
Wavepad Audio Editor for Mac 3.20
WavePad is audio editing software for Mac OS X. This program lets you make and edit voice, music and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad is free. more>>
Wavepad Audio Editor for Mac - WavePad is a sound editor program for Mac OS X. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more
Special effects include reduce vocals, distortion, chorus and more.
Batch processing allows you to apply effects and/or convert your files as a single function.
Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording.
Create and work on multiple audio files at one time and save them as one project.
Supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits.
Pre-defined audio quality suggestions when saving files such as CD Quality and Radio Quality.
Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis (text to speech).
Load audio files directly from Cd and convert to .wav files automatically.
Ability to work with multiple files at the same time in seperate screens.
Allows you to set user assigned keys and macros.
Set bookmarks along multiple files as you work.
Enhancements:
Version 3.20
System Requirements:Mac OS X 10.2 and above<<less
