You'll love Speech Central because it has both the best feature set among text-to-speech apps and the best pricing among high quality voice reader apps on the Store. To no surprise it is the most popular choice among the Mac users in this category. Here are just some of our outstanding features: ◦ The best PDF support in text to speech apps - your reading flow will not be interrupted by footers, headers, footnotes and long web links as they are detected by the advanced artificial intelligence in most cases. No other app has this feature. Even the scanned PDF documents are imported. ◦ The best web support in text to speech apps - for the first time you can listen everything as both articles and headlines (including RSS feeds) are supported. Articles can be added from the headlines page for fully uninterrupted flow. And you can send articles from any browser with the Pocket extension. ◦ The widest support for documents/office and e-book formats. ◦ Knowledge and text annotation tools built-in. ◦ The widest choice of options to customize the voice, appearance and various other parameters ◦ Export the text with annotations to .docx format ◦ Sync playlist across Apple devices including with the iOS app and the current position in the text. ◦ The widest selection of keyboard shortcuts to control the speed and browse the text that is read aloud. ◦ The app can be used with dozens of languages that have text-to-speech support on the device with automatic language detection from the content. ◦ Export the text to the audio file. ◦ The app is tested to be accessible by legally blind users. ◦ Your data stays truly private, we collect only analytics data with no identifiable reference to the user or imported content. Even when the syncing is enabled. With over 20,000 licenses sold and consistent ratings above 4 stars Speech Central is one of the leading global text-to-speech brands. It was nominated for the best iOS accessible app in 2020 and 2017 on AppleVis, the leading authority in the field of accessibility on Apple devices. Reinvent your life, if you are busy cut the time you spend in front of the screen and listen to the news articles, documents and e-books while you are doing housework or even commuting and jogging (by using the audio files). The app can be used as an assistive technology and helper for people with visual impairments (eyesight problems) and disabilities like dyslexia. Supported document types are: PDF (including scanned documents), Microsoft Word (.docx), Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx), OpenOffice/LibreOffice (.odt, .odp), .html, .mhtml, .webarchive, .txt, .rtf, supported ebook formats are .epub, DAISY and .fb2 and emails in .eml format. Get the app now and enjoy the most convenient text to audio! Don't forget to check Speech Central for iOS - you can listen items imported from the Mac for free. You may consider to buy Labsii Suite on the Mac App Store where for slightly higher price you get the license for all 4 of our apps in the Store. Notes: - Some features are available only on the latest version of the operating system. - The license is valid only for this operating system. Other operating systems have separate licenses. - macOS High Sierra 13.6 contains the bug that prevents the app to create the longer audio files (it doesn't affect the reading just the option to create audio files). Other versions of macOS don't have this problem. - DRM protected books (e.g. Kindle books) are locked to their respective vendor apps and cannot be imported into the app. - For languages other than English the support is provided using the auto-translation tools
Custom speeach
First review i said that it cant do custom speech. Ok i guess it can. The dev told me how. You go to books / articles and click to enter it. ok im wrong it can.. its just really bad labeled. Since when is custom on the fly speech a book or an article? Maybe have another section called "Instant" where you can type in what you want, hit enter and it says it. Then you can download the audio? 3/5 because it works.. just not labeled right.
United StatesGreat Text to Speech
I use this app for ebooks, artlces, etc and it's great. I can get through material a lot quicker. The only issue I have is that it reads footnotes. i wish I knew how to have it not read them. Otherwise great program and I use it regularly. Highly recommend.
United StatesGreat for writers editing their work
I am a writer who finds listening to my drafts very helpful when doing final edits. I tried several text-to-speech apps and found them cumbersome and/or prone to crashes. This app's "voice" is slightly less natural than some of the competitions', BUT it is a great improvement from listening to Lurch (LOL) narrate my text! Plus it has worked seamlessly. I have had to cut and paste some of my Pages documents (instead of importing them) but that is fine with me, for what I need this for. A big relief to find this app.
United StatesExcellent
This app is justt perfect for me because I'm visually impaired and thanks to this app I can easily convert any pdf to audio in a couple of minutes. I'm a law student and this is one of my key tools .
United StatesIt's a great tool... but it could easily be better.
I enjoy using tools like this for information retention. I have a bad memory and having it read out loud while reading along helps paint a better picture to the story. The voices could be made better, though. It sounds like a robot that reads in monotone which eventually becomes annoying. If that was updated/made better in some way. This app would be outstanding.
United StatesBeen very helpful for reseach.
This app had been very helpful with research. Been able to focus on notes or other tasks with this reads any articles to me. My only complaint is that there isn't a web browser plugin to read webpage articles directly.
United StatesAlmost meets all of my needs
On the surface the app works great. But... I hit the link option and got this long error message in a floating box. And when I clicked "share" the app crashed altogether, and even gave me on of those big crash dialog boxes so I can alert Apple what happened. This occurred 2x in a row and so I'm here writing this review. I just bought this application 7 minutes ago and these are my first experiences. It’s not immediately clear where to locate the Export Audio option - and that's really why I bought this app. After hunting around a tad I realized I need to right click on the file name to see this option. However, since it doesn't export to .mp3 it doesn't meet my needs on any level as this is a necessity for what I purchased this application to do. (That's not why I gave it 3 stars - although I do think it should be made clear somewhere that it only reads text and this audio cannot be exported.). Also, it would be a huge plus if I could edit the text I uploaded into the application. I have found a couple of spelling errors and I can’t edit it in the application itself. I need to edit the file and then re-upload it to the application. This application seems to only allow for export to .aiff or .mp4 . While I am appreciative it exports the audio, more export options would be preferred. Right now, as it stands, I would simply have to download in one of these formats and then I would have to take another step, with another application, to convert it into an .mp3 or .wav file. The app itself seems to have a solid body to it. It works. It reads the text. All but one of the American voices sound robotic and choppy but I think I saw an option to install more voices so I might check in on that soon. If you’re wondering if you should download this application to read your documents I would say it’s a good bet this application will do what you want it to do for you. If my friends or family asked about this application I would tell them it’s a good app to download as it’ll get the job done, it just has a couple of quirky flaws I’m sure the coders will get to fixing once they learn they’re there. Thank You to the developer(s) for this application. It is much appreciated.
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