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Ask HN: Best free software to read text aloud

 2 years ago
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Ask HN: Best free software to read text aloud

Ask HN: Best free software to read text aloud
13 points by n8ta 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
What is the best software to read arbitrary text aloud in a decently human sounding voice? I'd be happy with a CLI tool or a website I can just paste text into.

There are many articles I'd rather hear than read so I can rest my eyes. I've tried the builtin macOS say cmd, naturalreaders (dot) com and they both suck.

The Pocket app has TTS that is pretty good. I believe they use Amazon Polly under the hood.
I was looking for same thing years ago but after a while the voice will no longer feel robotic (edit: it still feels robotic just you no longer notice it unless you focus on teh voice instead of the content), and you can try increase the speed slowly until you will be able to have text read to you at super speeds.

This days I use my custom scripts that use eSpeak under the hood.

Try "Listen" feature at TinyGem [1] to see if you like that kind of voice (powered by Microsoft AI). It accepts URLs to articles and does extraction for you. (disclaimer: my hobby project)

[1] https://tinygem.org/listen/

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This voice is better than any I've tried. Thanks!
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