United StatesSayIt is the ultimate text to speech utility! SayIt provides a simple and fun way to have text read aloud to you and to create spoken audio files of any text. SayIt supports non-English languages in OS X Lion. • choose from over 10 voices, with further voices and non-English voices available for free download from Apple to OS X Lion users via System Preferences • save spoken text to an audio file in AAC or AIFF format to share or add to iTunes • modify the speaking rate to suit your preferences • easy copy and paste of any text including from long documents • supports additional third-party voices from cepstral.com, cereproc.com and assistiveware.com including non-English voices and regional accents • tested for VoiceOver compatibility Note for OS X Lion users: to download additional voices, go to System Preferences → Speech → System Voice → Customize… and choose additional voices to download for free. Once the download has completed relaunch SayIt to use your new voices.
Easy to Use & Save Files, Limited Voices
It's easy to copy text in, and play it direclty in the window, or save the text to speech in an audio file to import into iTunes. SayIt does include a long list of voices, however only several are worth using. Many are hard to understand and/or sound very digital. You can adjust the speed of the voices which is nice. I'd also like to see a bit more pause between sentenaces and paragraphs. App could use a few more options in how it reads.
United StatesFrench
I ownloaded this app but I can't get it to read in any language but French.
United StatesTERRIBLE
I DOWNLOADED THIS APP ON MY MACBOOK TO DO SOME NARRATING FOR A POWERPOIT AND EVERYTIIME I TRIED TO SAVE A FILE IT WOULD FREEZE AND I WOULD HAVE TO RESTART MY COMPUTER. 100% NOT WORTH THE MONEY AT ALL. I CAN FIND A FREE PRODUCT THAT WORKS BETTER AND DOES THE JOB BETTER THAN THIS. THE VOICES ARE TERRIBLE, EVERYBODY SOUNDS LIKE ROBOTS.
United StatesUses com.apple.speechrecoginition
The olly reason I bought this was to circumvent RAM hog Speech Recognition. But that’s what it uses as its engine. Total waste of money of time. For me it’s no different than Text to Speech. As for recording, you can use open source Sound Flower.
United StatesNo Pause
Ok, another app that has a big flow in just providing basic interface option to Pause reading. It has stop and then you have to start listening from begining. So lets say 5-10 min document and you need to stop in between. Well good luck, One start, please improve your playback controller. Thanks P.S Apple I feel like not tiral option makes me feel that I’m paying you to test bad apps. Where is easy return policy for apps. I’m waintings this for very long time.
United StatesDOES NOT WORK WITH CEPSTRAL VOICES
I needed a text to speech program that works with Cepstral voices. This program advertises that it does. It does NOT - it just crashes when i try & use Cepstral David. mz
United StatesSame app under another name.
Same voices as Read4Me. Not as good a program.
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