Top 15 eSpeak Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.

eSpeak uses a "formant synthesis" method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings.

1. SpeechTurtle

SpeechTurtle SpeechTurtle is a voice recognition tool that has a simplified c# scripting interface and can be used by amateurs as well as by professionals. It is a tool, that recognizes speech and does actions on this recognition like pressing keyboard keys for you, playing sounds or launching programs.Recognizes voice with......

2. Babble

Babble Babble is nice Text to Speech software for Mac OSX and for free......

3. svox pico engine

svox pico engine A backend for gSpeech, also usable in media players. The technology has been purchased by a German company for use in BMW automobiles for text to speech, as well. It is also used for GooglePlay. The open source libraries are still available, however. This is licensed under Apache 2.......

4. News Anchor

News Anchor News Anchor is the alternative news reader when you prefer listening rather than reading. Instead of displaying gobs and gobs of text like a list of never-ending e-mail (like what most newsreaders do), News Anchor allows you to rest your eyes and fingers while catching up with the news that......

5. VoiceBot

VoiceBot Take command of your games with your voice using VoiceBot! Sending commands to your games and applications is as easy as saying the command out loud. Use your voice to run keyboard shortcuts, click and move your mouse, and even execute complicated macros and scripts.......

6. Speaking Email

Speaking Email Have your phone read out your email to you while on the go!Speaking Email iPhone app reads out HTML emails, not just plain text. A quick glance at your screen gives you the visual context of the email. Images and email content is intelligently scaled down to fit your device......

7. ReaderPal

ReaderPal ReaderPal is a simple, easy-to-use text-to-speech software for the Mac.Just copy and paste any text, from any application and ReaderPal will read it aloud for you.Requirements Mac OSX 10.6 or newer.......

8. Share to Speech

Share to Speech Don't spend your time in front of the screen reading articles when you can listen to them. Pack them as MP3s on the cloud, USB drive or any folder and then access them in your car or on your mobile device. Create a list of articles and listen to them......

9. Text to MP3 Converter

Text to MP3 Converter Quickly convert text, Word documents, PDF, and other documents to speech and save results to MP3 files using Windows Text-to-Speech Engine and voice synthesizer.- Supports multiple languages*- Synthesizes speech using configurable voice*- Voice control options include speaker's gender, tempo, speed, emphasis, and volume- Records and outputs either WAV or......

10. VOCALOID

VOCALOID VOCALOID is a singing synthesizer. It uses synthesizing technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors or singers. To create a song, the user must input the melody and lyrics. A piano roll type interface is used to input the melody and the lyrics can be entered on each note.......

11. Kurzweil

Kurzweil Kurzweil is an application that scans text and reads it aloud. Kurzweil also has some other functions such as highlighting, circling, and fill in the blank.......

12. Screenshot to Speech

Screenshot to Speech This text to speech application is useful for your computer to read pdfs, scanned images or even kindle books.It extracts the text from any image visible on your screen by taking a screenshot and allows your computer to speak the text that has been extracted.It is easy to use and......

13. Microsoft Agent

Microsoft Agent Microsoft Agent is a technology developed by Microsoft, which employs animated characters, text-to-speech engines, and speech recognition software to enhance interaction with computer users. Thus it is an example of an embodied agent. It comes preinstalled as part of Microsoft Windows 2000 through Windows Vista (it is not part of......

14. Double Agent

Double Agent Double Agent is an open source (GPL) alternative to Microsoft Agent that allows Agent applications to work on Windows 7. Its available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.......

15. PDF Connoisseur

PDF Connoisseur Kdan Mobile's PDF solutions give users access to solid viewing and annotation capabilities which allow users to handle tough and routine tasks and further streamline their workflow.......