Do you want your content to reach as many people as possible? You need to keep reading.
Over 1 billion people worldwide encounter barriers when trying to read and understand content online. And today, getting your content to reach everyone is really important, whether you have a business or are a content creator.
Making this happen might sound difficult but actually, the solution is just a few clicks away from you, all you need is a text-to-speech tool.
Text-to-speech solutions provide digital accessibility to populations with learning and speech disabilities, visual impairments, and low literacy challenges across devices and platforms, so your message is clear and comprehensible to everyone.
How does it work? it helps convert text to speech with custom and personalized AI Voices. It works on almost all personal digital devices, including computers, smartphones, and tablets. All types of text files can be transcripted and read aloud, including Word documents, PDF files, and web pages.
This tool is helpful for things like learning to read, e-learning, lectures, YouTube videos, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitch, and Facebook, as well as improving the accessibility of a website.
There are a few websites that provide text-to-speech converters, but several of these companies charge for their services, and finding the perfect one is time-consuming. If you want to improve the accessibility of your video content by adding text to speech, for example, one of the best tools is Woord. It’s essential that we make accessible, inclusive content our new norm and with Woord we can make that happen.
Why Woord?
Woord is a free online TTS software with a variety of useful features. It includes over 50 languages and dialects, as well as the ability to pick between masculine, feminine, or non-binary voices. All of these features are free to use, allowing you to evaluate the service before investing in the premium version. The free edition includes premium voices, a Chrome plugin, an SSML editor, an MP3 download, and up to 20,000 characters per month. You can also change the voice’s speed and format with this software.
It also benefits users such as kids learning to read, e-learning, lectures, YouTube videos, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitch, and Facebook, as well as improving the accessibility of a website.
How to use Woord:
- First, go to www.getwoord.com/guest/upload
- Once you are on Woord, choose the format of the file in which the text you want to convert is. As we said, Woord supports pdf, txt, doc(x), pages, odt, ppt(x), ods, non-DRM epub, jpeg, png. You can also type directly on the SSML editor.
- Next, select or drag your files and press the “Import Scan or Photo” button.
- Below the file, the transcript will appear in an editor that you can modify to your liking. Here just select the gender of the voice and the device on which you will play the audio.
- Finally, it only remains to hit the “Speak it!” button and download.
Also published on Medium.