Free text to speech software for mac

Features:Colorizes text into a rainbow(s) for the default saturation and brightness and starting hue.

Built-in text Service for Rainbow Text allows text from other Cocoa applications to be colorized.Applescript support.

Using the English Speech Recognition software and the proper hardware, your computer can respond to your spoken commands. English Speech Recognition includes the Speech Recognition extension and a utility program called Speakable Items.

MyVoiceX is a Text-to-speech program for people with speaking difficulties.

Let your Macintosh or PC speak for you..An application for those unable to speak.
Now available with a new feature that allows the user to enter and save their own phrases.
Mac OSX, Mac Classic and Windows versions available.

In The Know (ITK) is a Widget designed for the Dashboard environment of Mac OS X. It enables you to stay on top of the latest news from your favorite RSS feeds in an efficient and unobtrusive manner, satisfying even the most voracious appetite for information.
Main features:
- Support for an unlimited number of feeds in either RSS or RDF format.
- Resizable window for viewing flexibility.
- Simple drag and drop interface for adding and removing feeds.
- Scrollable feed list sorted alphabetically to simplify browsing.
- Scrollable article list sorted by publication date displayed in local time.
- Expand and collapse headlines for efficient browsing and reading.
- Speaks feed headlines using your Macs built-in TTS (text-to-speech) capabilities.
- Automatically updates news in the background to keep your information "fresh".
The deluxe edition also includes the following features:
- Flags new articles since the last refresh, allowing you to quickly discriminate between "fresh" and "stale" news.
- Automatically speaks new headlines after updating your feeds, allowing you to keep updated without even accessing Dashboard. (Yes, this news reader can actually "read" you the news!) This occurs in the background so you can continue to perform other tasks on your Mac.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a problem that could result in certain feeds not being refreshed properly.
- Minor interface enhancements.

SteveDiary is a freeware diary program for MacOS X and MacOS Classic.
SteveDiary includes all of the basic text features such as styles, sizes, fonts and colors.
SteveDiary also features speech recognition. Opening your diary is as simple as clicking on the SteveDiary program.
Enhancements:
- Speech Recognition
- One version for both MacOS Classic and MacOS X.
- Music features now work in MacOS X.

Export Signatures to Text is a small AppleScript for Entourage that exports all your Signatures (both name and content) to a text file. Simple!

iTunes playlist to text file is a simple AppleScript which makes a text file of the track names of an iTunes playlist.
Handy if youre making a CD cover for a playlist you burn to CD from iTunes.

Completly freeware.

A really craptacular text-to-speech synthesizer based on a JavaWorld Article. It works, but it sounds pretty bad. No user interface.

It is meant to be called by other applications.
It can be called from the Developers console.