ReadPlease AlternativesText to Speech Services and other similar apps like ReadPlease

ReadPlease is described as '2003 is a text-to-speech application designed to give your computer a human-sounding voice so it can read arbitrary text to you, from Web pages, e-mail, or the Clipboard. Through file-type association, the program can read any text file or Rich Text Format file' and is a Text to Speech service in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ReadPlease for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Android and Linux apps. The best ReadPlease alternative is NaturalReader. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try NaturalReader or eSpeak. Other great apps like ReadPlease are Simple TTS Reader, Acapela TTS, DSpeech and ReadSpeaker.

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  1. NaturalReader icon
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    Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. The paid versions of Natural Reader have many more features.

    169 NaturalReader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  2. eSpeak icon
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    eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.

    108 eSpeak alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  3. TextAloud icon
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    NextUp.com develops Windows text to speech (TTS) software applications like TextAloud that let your computer talk with AT&T Natural Voices. TextAloud can also be in Microsoft Word as a plug-in.

    105 TextAloud alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Simple TTS Reader is a small utility that reads text from your clipboard using Microsoft Speech API. Whenever you copy any text, the app instantly converts it into spoken words. You have full control over the voice output — simply select your preferred speech engine from those...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Acapela TTS icon
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    Acapela Group, the leading European voice expert leaning upon 25 years of experience, invents text-to- speech solutions to give your content a voice in up to 25 languages. Our speech solutions allow you to turn any written text into natural speech files, using any of the 50 High...

    59 Acapela TTS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
     
  6. DSpeech icon
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    DSpeech is a TTS (Text To Speech) program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced upon the vocal answers of the user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. ReadSpeaker icon
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    Online Text to Speech by ReadSpeaker. Speech-enable web sites, mobile apps, online documents and forms so that your visitors can listen to your content.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. GhostReader icon
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    The premier Text-to-Speech solution for the Mac. GhostReader allows you to listen while your Mac does the talking in your language of choice

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Speakonia icon
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    CFS-Technologies Speakonia is a FREE Text-To-Speech (TTS) GUI (graphical User-Interface) Program which uses the Microsoft ® Speech Technology.

    50 Speakonia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Fala icon
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    Fala - A simple text reader is an open source application. A simple software that speaks a text. You can type the text or appoint a file. Fala is just a frontend to festival. Its designed for GNOME, but if you have gtk, pyhton and festival you are able to run it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. vozMe icon
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    vozMe is a simple online ‘text to speech’ program that lets you type-in any English or Spanish (also Italian, Portoguese and Hindi) text and then play it as an audio stream. Streams also can be downloaded and saved as standard MP3 files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Joomla
    • Blogger
    • Wordpress
     
  12. Voice Reader from Linguatec reads your texts and e-mails for you, either at your desk on your PC or on the move on your MP3 player.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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