From text to speech

I do this: http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php

I can't explain exactly how our technology works, but we have a variety of backend programs all working together. Some voices are human recorded voices that are parsed and merged, others use neural networks to generate sounds. There is also a significant amount of post-processing that acts sort of like auto-tune since even the best TTS engines can have same harsh artifacts. The technology is fairly old, the current push is to figure out how to do it efficiently on smaller devices like phones.

 

Ive not tested it but see...

http://www.fromtexttospeech.com
Edit:
Or...
https://www.texttomp3.online
https://www.text2speech.org
https://responsivevoice.org/free-text-to-speech-mp3-audio-files/

Or Google "text to speech MP3" without the quotes.

 

Any of the links CWatters posted would work. Just hunt around for what you want, some have limits on how much text they're willing to do for free, some don't. I use this for editing because having someone read it to me helps me hear it and computers don't misread like humans do.

Video games, handicapped accessibility, teaching, websites, telephony... it's used for lots of stuff.

 

My car GPS has a "text-to-speech" function as the navigation "voice" reads out the name of the street you shall turn into. Ten years ago, the pronunciation was amateurish and hard to understand, on my last unit it is close to perfect. And Norwegian is not the most common language in the world...

 

Also not tested... but interesting

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-text-to-speech-software
https://merabheja.com/best-free-text-to-speech-tools/

https://ttsreader.com/
https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-docs/wiki/List-of-math-enabled-screen-readers

Interesting iPhone app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seeing-ai/id999062298?mt=8