Free text to speak software for mac

YSpeak is a free computer program for speech-disabled users. It is designed to assist in communicating in a variety of ways, reducing the input from the user to the minimum.

At its simplest, YSpeak will speak typed input, in any one of 25 different voices. Both male and female voices are provided. As the user types, YSpeak will speak the typed text either word-by-word, by line, by sentence, or when requested by the user. YSpeak will display the input text in any font, size, style, or color.

To allow someone else to read the text, YSpeak can also display the text inverted at the top of the screen, so that with the iBook display folded back, someone sitting opposite the user can read the text as it is input. To allow for a limited viewing angle, the text can also be displayed in negative.

YSpeak has two user-selectable built-in Dictionaries, one of the 1000 most-commonly used words in the English language, and one of over 25,000 words. In either Dictionary, as soon as the user types the first two letters of a word, YSpeak will invoke the Dictionaries to look up words starting with those letters, and display possible words in a separate window. The user can then select the word from this list to save typing the whole word.

YSpeak also tracks words as they are entered, and will attempt to predict the next word when one is entered. In doing this, it learns from the user.

YSpeak also has 5 separate word lists, each of which allows up to 35 words to be entered by typing a single key. Changing key lists is again invoked with a single key.

Text to iPod Notes is a drag and drop AppleScript that allows you to read longer texts (e. g. books) segmented into text notes.
Drag a plain text document to the application or double-click the application and choose a plain text document. Place the created folder in the Notes folder on iPod.
Completly freeware.
Enhancements:
- Unicode encoding for international texts.

Text to Speech Sound File Makers is a set of 4 AppleScripts with diferent audio functions.

Drag-n-Drop-Text to AIFF 0.01
Drag text files and convert them to AIFF files spoken by MacinTalk.

TextEdit to MP3 0.01
Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an MP3 file spoken by MacinTalk.

TextEdit to AIFF 0.05
Converts whatever is in TextEdit to an AIFF file spoken by MacinTalk.

DJ Track Names to AIFF 0.06
Gives your iPod, iTunes or other MP3 player a DJ announcing tunes and artists.

speak is a silly ‘throwaway’ program I created to speak text files from the command line on any MacOS X 10.3+ system using the default MacInTalk Voice.

Completly freeware.

Text Sucker is a utility (saved as an AppleScript droplet) for extracting the text from QuarkXPress documents. As its name implies, it requires QuarkXPress version 4.11.

Just drag-and-drop one or more XPress files on to Text Suckers icon, and you will be given the opportunity to change some preferences (see below).

Text Sucker will then open and copy the text from each file one at a time, and save it in a text file.

The Clean Text for Pasting script fixes a problem when pasting text from a program like Quark or AppleWorks into Adobe GoLive. Instead of getting [p] after paragraphs, you get [br].

Completly freeware for personal use.