Listening AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text to Speech Services

The best Text to Speech alternative to Listening is Balabolka, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked six alternatives to Listening and six of them are Text to Speech Services so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text to Speech Service alternatives to Listening are Cloud TTS, @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader), TexVoz and Bark (AI).

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Listening alternatives page was last updated Jul 6, 2024
  1. Balabolka icon
     93 likes

    Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT...

    59 Balabolka alternatives
    Balabolka screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

    Properties

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  No registration required
    4.  No Tracking

    Features

    1.  Text to Speech
    2.  Portable
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Android Sync
    5.  Remembers position in file
    Balabolka iconListening Icon

    Balabolka VS Listening

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    • Balabolka is the most popular Windows alternative to Listening.

    • Balabolka is the most popular free alternative to Listening.

    • Balabolka is Free and ProprietaryListening is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Cloud TTS icon
     2 likes

    CloudTTS is a straightforward text-to-speech application. Simply type in or paste the text you'd like to hear, and it reads it back to you.

    57 Cloud TTS alternatives
    Cloud TTS screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online

    Cloud TTS Features

    1.  Text to Speech
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Multiple languages
    Cloud TTS iconListening Icon

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    • Cloud TTS is the most popular Web-based alternative to Listening.

    • Cloud TTS is Free and ProprietaryListening is Paid and Proprietary
  3. @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) icon
     10 likes

    Listen to the app read aloud or read on screen web pages, news articles, long emails, TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documents, ebooks (EPUB, MOBI, PRC, AZW and FB2), and more. It's an HTML reader, document reader and ebook reader all in one.

    6 @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) alternatives
    @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android

    @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) Features

    1.  Text to Speech
    @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) iconListening Icon

    @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) VS Listening

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    • @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) is the most popular Android alternative to Listening.

    • @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) is Free and ProprietaryListening is Paid and Proprietary
  4. TexVoz icon
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    TexVoz is the best online text to speech converter with natural sounding voices. Available in 65 languages ??and more than 400 voices with different accents. Download your audios as mp3. Create stunning audios for audiobooks, narration, E-learning.

    94 TexVoz alternatives
    TexVoz - Convertidor de texto a voz online

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    TexVoz Features

    1.  Text to Speech
    TexVoz iconListening Icon

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    • TexVoz is the most popular SaaS alternative to Listening.

    • TexVoz is Freemium and ProprietaryListening is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Bark (AI) icon
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    Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model created by Suno. Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.

    64 Bark (AI) alternatives
    Bark (AI) screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac

    Bark (AI) Features

    1.  Text to Speech
    Bark (AI) iconListening Icon

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    • Bark (AI) is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Listening.

    • Bark (AI) is the most popular Open Source alternative to Listening.

    • Bark (AI) is Free and Open SourceListening is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Voice Out icon
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    Read aloud any webpage, Google Doc, PDF, or book with text to speech (TTS). Natural sounding voices in 30+ languages & 130 voices.

    50 Voice Out alternatives
    Voice Out screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome

    Properties

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  No registration required

    Features

    1.  Text to Speech
    Voice Out iconListening Icon

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