Who wants to read all their email when they can listen to it instead?vozMe is web tool that turns text into an mp3 file that you can listen to immediately online or download onto your hard drive to listen to later. The tool works for English, as well as Spanish and Italian text and the interface is simple in design with just a box to type or paste text, and a button to create an mp3. vozMe also has tools available for webmasters who want to offer audio versions of posts directly on their websites.
We're never really impressed with text to speech websites. The voice that reads your text to you is your standard "Computer Voice A" which gets pretty annoying to listen to. The simple idiot proof interface of vozMe however makes it a rather attractive tool to bookmark for non-Tech savvy family members who have failing eyesight. With no registration and only two steps to success it's not one of those services you're going to have to explain too many times to grandma.
For other text to speech options check out VocalFruits, Pediaphon, and SpokenText.
[via Digital Inspiration]
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1-27-2008 @ 5:58PM
Tom said...
For mac users, you can use 'say' from the terminal with words (or text files) as input and it will output to a .aiff file of your choosing using -o. For more info, use 'man say'. (You can then convert the AIFF to mp3 with LAME, or just import it to itunes, set your cd import encoding options to mp3 and configure it as you like, then select the aiff and go to Tools -> Convert to MP3. Or a large variety of other ways, I just think that's simplest)
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