Blogs

New ways to contact me, Ronen Rabinovici, developer

Nice to e-meet you. I am Ronen Rabinovici, TTSReader’s developer. I would like to thank you all for your support! Whether it is joining our premium plan, sending us feedback to make it better, telling friends about it, sharing on social media, or simply using this tool time after time - this gives me great motivation to continue developing it. Since I would like to have more interactions with you, hear from you, and share new developments with you, I opened a new Twitter account where you can follow me and contact me directly.

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Read out loud any website directly on TTSReader.com

This is very exciting. Only a few weeks ago we first introduced our new web player - which reads out loud websites - simply by pasting in the website’s url. Since then - it has regular users using it daily to listen to online novels, wiki articles, news, professional materials and more. We are very excited, and thank you very much! If you haven’t seen it already, here’s a link to the webplayer, and here’s a screenshot of it reading the Wiki article on the Beatles:

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Exciting News! Use Custom SAPI5 Voices on TTSReader

Use ANY voice installed on your computer with TTSReader! I was so excited when I found out about this! You can use ANY custom SAPI5 voice installed on your Windows PC with ttsreader.com! 1) Use any voice to enhance the reading experience Why is this exciting? Since you may now use many more voices, including custom / tailored / high fidelity voices you purchased and installed with our simple to use, light weight effective player.

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Exciting! New Mobile App

Our best text reader for mobile device Reads out loud written content, plain text, files and web pages. For people who like to listen. Read eyes and hands free. iOS natural sounding voices. Super easy to use. To start simply tap the ‘Play’ button. That’s it. Main features: Editable text Import web pages Shows images Multiple languages and voices

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Embed Silence in Generated Speech

Want to add silent pauses to the output speech? Now you can with this recently added feature! Happy to let our users know that today we launched the 'pause' feature that many of you requested. Whenever you want a pause simply add the following word `{{pause}}` which will add a 1 second pause. To add a pause of 5 seconds, simply add `{{pause}}{{pause}}{{pause}}{{pause}}{{pause}}` ie five times the code `{{pause}}` Please refresh https://ttsreader.

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New Service Automatically Transcribes Audio & Video Files

tl;dr (summary) New service that automatically transcribes. You upload an audion/video file and get the text. Supports captions Most private, highly secured Fast turnarounds, cost-effective Has affiliates program - so you can direct people and get 10% off of all their purchases ever. Use this link to get $5 bonus on your first purchase: https://speechnotes.co/files/?ref=akI3Fb How it works So, here’s how it works: You simply go to the website https://speechnotes.

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Make your own website speak

How to add text to speech capabilities to your own website? The 3 possible ways to add text-to-speech to a website Implement the web speech api interface, as described here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis Implement text-to-speech (TTS), that is NOT based on the web speech api, provided by companies developing the TTS technology itself. This route is not recommended for most websites since it is either low quality or expensive. Implement ttsreader’s api - which itself uses the web speech api, but wraps it in the best way for most site-owners.

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Professional Voice Artists

Whether you’re a voice artist or looking for a professional reading and recording - we at ttsreader.com are working on developing the hub for finding the best professionals in the field. We’re not there yet - but - we can still help as we’ve started collecting professionals for our network. Looking for a professional voice artist? If you need a professional to read and record you text - fill out the following form or - simply send us an email to voices@ttsreader.

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Special Thanks

We would like to show our appreciation and thank the following people We really appreciate it, for spending your time and effort to help us. You should know, that you also helped millions of people who use our service. For reporting bugs & helping us find them Paul Joel Scott Montgomery For sending us great ideas we implemented Think you should be on this list? Send us an email to contact@wellsrc.

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Watch: Comparing top text to speech solutions (by independent youtuber)

Watch the live comparison here. We just stumbled upon this very interesting YouTube, demoing live comparison of top speech to text solutions online. The blogger here simply searched ‘text to speech’ on Google, and then tested all the different free websites that he got on the first search results. It’s all done live - so you can see the websites and hear the different voices on each one. He uses the same text for all websites - so you actually get a very good comparison of the different text to speech solutions.

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