Did you know Text To Speech can save you a lot of time in your everyday life?
Today, any content we can consume easily and anytime is appealing. This is why text to speech is becoming very popular, it allows you to listen to anything you want (for example your pdfs, documents, and ebooks) while doing other things.
Multitasking and being productive is something a lot of people look for, text to speech can allow you to do it.
This is how TTS can be a convenience feature, or an accessibility feature that helps people who need additional assistance to hear text that’s on a screen.
Yes converting text to audio makes your life easier but it also allows easy access to digital content for those with visual impairment, caters to more audiences with language proficiency issues, to the growing aging population, and permits more flexibility for the content owner.
But also, it makes it easier to access content in general, if you’re tired of reading you can simply use a text-to-speech tool and convert your pdfs or texts in general into audio.
How does it work?
With a click of a button or the touch of a finger, TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them into audio.
These days converters keep getting better and easier to use. With converters like Woord all you have to do is select a file or copy a text, select convert and that’s it! You get audio.
Why Woord?
Woord is a free online TTS that has a number of useful features. It is available in over 50 languages, including several English dialects, Portuguese dialects, and Spanish dialects. You can also select a male, female, or gender-neutral voice. All of these features are available for free, allowing you to test 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 speed and format of the voice with this software.
Woord´s vocal characteristics allow you to use it in a variety of situations. You can use Woord´s Text-to-Speech (TTS) functionality to create applications that assist people with reading difficulties, such as those used in E-learning and education.
Woord, as previously mentioned, can be used to assist the blind and visually impaired in consuming digital information such as eBooks and newspapers, but it can also be used in a variety of devices such as set-top boxes, smartwatches, tablets, and smartphones.
How to use it?
Woord‘s interface is designed in a simple way to be intuitive for the user. With these simple steps you will be able to generate quality audio:
1- In the format you prefer, write or upload the content you want to convert to speech (it can be an image, PDF, text file, blog, or a variety of other formats).
2- Select the language, voice gender (male or female), and pace. (From within the PDF, you can also choose where to begin playing.)
3- You can listen to or download your audio recording as an MP3 file online.
Also published on Medium.