Moon works with text to
speech engines in the $ 4.99 version on sale at 50 percent off through January 4 (as I recall, it doesn't do TTS in the free version).
Alexa may have only one voice today, but the Amazon Poly
synthetic speech engine offers 52 voices in 25 localized languages / accents.
Wikimedia Foundation and Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology have partnered together to enable
crowdsourced speech engine for Wikipedia.
The Google store for now is carrying the
Ivona speech engine and voices for free in beta form — let's hope that the final versions aren't too costly.
Developers can also buy access to the
same speech engines that power Alexa and Google Assistant for use within their own apps.
➤ KTH and Wikipedia develop first crowdsourced speech engine [KTH Royal Institute of Technology]
It develops what it calls «Collective A.I.» which is basically a powerful platform that enables developers to bring voice - enabled artificial intelligence to any app or service without having to create their own underlying libraries or an entirely
new speech engine.
Google's Text - to -
speech Engine already lets users select what voice they want to hear, while other smart assistants like Siri on iOS allows users to pick a male or female voice.
The uniqueness of the approach means that support requires special handling of the attributes — only an EPUB 3 reading system will recognize them and be able to process them for passing on to a
synthetic speech engine.
The message can then be automatically read aloud using Uconnect's text to
speech engine and responded to with canned responses.
It would be nice if tapping the physical NAV button dropped you back on the Live Map like it does in most cars, but in the CX - 5 this just cues the system's text - to -
speech engine to read the last direction — which if you're not currently navigating is, «You have reached your destination.»
It can export into ePub2 and ePub3 formats, as well as mobi (Kindle) files, ODT files that can be used to create a PDF, and even a text - to -
speech engine that will create a computer read - aloud track.
The InkPad 3 also has a text to
speech engine, so you can initiate this function and have your books read aloud.
There is a text - to -
speech engine that will read aloud e-books.
The InkPad 3 also has a text to
speech engine, so you can initiate this function and have your ebooks read aloud.
Turn any ebook into an audiobook with Audiobook Reader, it utilizes Amazon Polly as a text to
speech engine.
Instead, they will have a text - to -
speech engine, similar to Alexa.
It was designed to give people with vision problems the ability to have a text to
speech engine that would read aloud anywhere you pressed on the touchscreen and would narrate e-books.
You can use the text - to -
speech engine to get the device to read a desired book aloud starting from the page you are viewing.
The technology is relatively new, and support only arrived a couple of years back in
the speech engine we were using at CNIB — the editor of the PLS specification also worked for the company whose voices we were using.
However, this is not a function of the device, but rather the text - to -
speech engine itself.
This is the first Android app in the world that forgoes the standard text to
speech engine and employs Amazon Polly, which is what Alexa is built on, to read your eBooks aloud.
Bonzi's
speech engine (part of the Microsoft Agent suite), was a huge novelty around the time it was released in 1999.
Microsoft Agent was a technology developed by Microsoft which employed animated characters, text - to -
speech engines, and speech recognition software to enhance interaction with computer users.
Windows Phone 8 brings numerous enhancements to the TellMe service aka
the speech engine behind Windows Phone.
The speech engine itself is driven by the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI), version 4 and above.
Apple has made improvements in Siri's
speech engine to make it sound more natural and less robotic.
The text to
speech engine is pretty rudimentary, but it's better than what we all had a few years back, and it'll only get better as improved engines like Google's and Apple's trickle down for general purpose use.
From a user perspective, the new gesture support, text to
speech engine, and slick new Quick Search Box are probably of more interest.