Select and Speak Alternatives

Select and Speak is described as 'Uses iSpeech's human-quality text-to-speech (TTS) to read any selected text in the browser. It includes many iSpeech text to speech voices in different languages. You can configure the voice and speed options by changing the settings on the options page' and is a Text to Speech service. There are more than 50 alternatives to Select and Speak for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPad apps. The best Select and Speak alternative is Read Aloud Extension, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Select and Speak are Balabolka, NaturalReader, eSpeak and Cloud TTS.

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  1. Web Reader icon
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    Let Text to Speech read web pages to you. Download webpages for reading offline. Practice speed reading. Use it simply as a RSS reader or use RSS playlists feature to listen to items in RSS feeds. Read from clipboard. Offline playlists.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. TTSFox icon
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    TTSFox is a text-to-speech WebExtension for Firefox that gives you a speech synthesized reading of any text you select.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
     
  3. 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
     
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    Announcify (formerly known as SayMyName) reads out loud the caller's name. Announcify reads out loud every website you want. For example, if you're too tired but still need to study one more Wikipedia entry, Announcify can help your tired eyes relax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Chrome OS
     
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    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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    Convert any source of text to speech. With specific features for handling PDF files, Starfield Reader allows selected of chapters of eBooks be converted into WAV/MP3 files.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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