I’ve been driving a lot lately, and have been wanting to listen to ebooks on my iPHone as I do so. It’s fairly simple to turn on VoiceOver and have what sounds like Siri read my books to me, but honestly? She’s a terrible narrator. The VoiceOver voice is heavily robotic, and it’s difficult to understand what’s being read to me most of the time, so I end up giving up or contemplating purchasing an audiobook from iTunes.
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But I’d really like to just continue the ebooks I already have on my iPhone while I’m driving. That way I can listen to them while in the car, but actually read them when I’m not. NaturalReader just might be part of the solution I’ve been looking for, so I figured I’d share it here with you.
Download the free Natural Reader app from the App Store, and open it with a tap on your iPhone. There’s a welcome file that you can have your iPhone read to you in order to hear the default voice. Tap the Play triangle in the lower left corner of the screen to listen in. You’ll find out that NaturalReader has over 30 voices in 5 languages, so you can try them all out in your language of choice to see which sounds the best to your ear. Tap on the gear icon in the upper right hand corner to change voices and language settings.
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Once you’ve chosen a voice that sounds most intelligible, you can start loading other text documents in from a variety of sources, including Dropbox or the web. Tap on the little three-line icon in the upper left of the main NaturalReader screen, then tap Dropbox. Tap Allow when NaturalReader wants access to Dropbox, and then you’ll see your Dropbox files, ready to be read to you. NaturalReader will read RTF, PDF, Word documents, and more right from your Dropbox. Slick.
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To load ebooks and other files, you can connect your iPhone via iTunes and add any documents from your Mac to NaturalReader to have it ready for later reading. For eBooks, you’ll need to find some that art HTML or PDF-based, and add them to Dropbox or iTunes. Now, if only NaturalReader would let me read my Nook or iBooks, I’d be super happy.
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I tried several text-to-speak programs (on linux) such as Fetival, eSpeak, etc; but the voice in all of them is very robotic. There are voice templates to change voice from male to female, but the problem in them all is that the system read each word separately, instead of starting to read a sentence.
Is there any advanced program or trick to read a text with a relatively natural voice?
The current artificial voices cannot be listened for a long text (too boring as the listener cannot concentrate).
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I think you mean Text-To-Speech (TTS) since you are talking about a robotic voice. TTS engines take written text and voice it back, whereas speech recognition engines understand human speech and convert it into a machine readable format. Loquendo has the most natural sounding TTS engine I have heard. They have a version for Linux. They have an interactive demo you can play with to hear how great it sounds. There TTS engine can take special characters in the text to do things like provide emphasis on phrases or even make the voice laugh or cry. Not many TTS engines do this.
After weeks of researching the same question I found the voices from Ivona (here) and Loquendo (here and here) to be the best TTS voices available for Windows. Only Ivona lists prices on their website though. To actually use the TTS voices on your Windows PC I recommend Balabolka (free), Ivona MiniReader (free) or Ivona Reader.
Next check out Clearly from Evernote. It is a browser extension currently only available for Google Chrome. It provides TTS for premium customers only. The (iSpeech powered) TTS voice is not as good as Ivona's or Loquendo's but it gives you a nice reader view on blog posts/articles by stripping away distracting page elements. You can also set it to auto-highlight the currently read word!
Check out ReadSpeaker too which can be implemented by website owners into their site. Readspeaker provides auto-highlighting of the currently read paragraph/word, auto-scrolling and the ability to change the TTS speed.
[Edit:] There are some free useful Google Chrome extensions that are powered by iSpeech as well.
You can buy a ready made device . http://www.textspeak.com makes human sounding text to speech products, boards and boxes. They have 20 languages and simple are the best sounding TTS you can find.
There is no license or development...just buy the box if you only need one voice output.
(This is NOT a SW solution, but we used it in a paging systems... 5 minutes to install)
From their site
'TextSpeak Embedded Text-To-Speech modules series convert ASCII text to a natural, clear voice with unlimited vocabulary. The small footprint, plug-in solution accepts wide range of input data to generate real-time speech for Security Transit Medical and Industry.
I don't know if it's open source, but Google's TTS is free, and is very natural sounding in comparison to Samsung's and Microsoft Anna.
jonscaCepstral seems to provide reasonable prices for text to speech voices. You might want to check them out as an option.
When it comes to having a good sound, what you really want to look for is not the text to speech software, but the good voices: they are a separate subject.
The same voice will work accross different software. The best one I know of at the moment is named Audrey. A female voice with a british accent. Although I have to change most ' that are on the text with copy-past to one from the keyboard, it is worth it for an almost realistic sounding voice. I also have to place a pausing symbol (.,: or such) at the end of titles so she doesn't keep talking right through them. I still think it's the best voice I have so far. But I wouldn't mind finding the one from that weather channel that was mentioned ealier:
'NOAA weather radio broadcasts are EXCELLENT. I would not object to listening to that program read a long text.– Jeanne Pindar'
Here is a website which has sample voices on it: including Audrey. I have others, but I have only used her for a long time now.
PS: you have to pay for the better voices, but they will work on free text-to-speech software afterwards... at least the one I have. (Free Natural Reader)
Voice Sample web page:http://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/attnaturalvoices.php