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Mrs. F
Why should you convert text to audio files anyway?
If you look closely at the alexa and page ranks of a popular article website as compared to the ranks of a popular audio downloading website you can see that a lot more people are listening to audio than reading articles.apple.com/itunes/podcasts Alexa Rankings: US = 26 Overall = 37 Page Rank : 8
ezinearticles.com Alexa Rankings: US = 213 Overall = 233 Page Rank: 6 If you convert text to audio files, you can add a podcast to your site. It might help increase the traffic to your site and can also increase your subscribers.
Now another question is how do you convert text to audio files?
The following websites will help you convert text to audio files online:
vozme.comThis website provides an online software that converts text to mp3 files. It has a feature where you can convert your website articles into mp3 files. For Wordpress powered sites you can easily install a plugin, while for Blogger powered sites you can just add an HTML code.
hearwho.com
This website provides a free and paid service. You can convert text with 400 characters for free, to convert more than 400 characters you should sign up for the paid service. They have 7 natural voices to choose from.
abc2mp3.com
This website provides a free service that allows you to converts text, pdf, Word docs, Html and RSS feeds into mp3 files. It does not require you to register or log in to use their service. The free service only allows up to 2000 words. You have 2 male voices and 2 female voices to choose from.
ispeech.org
Simply cut and paste the text you wish to convert to speech into our text box and click convert text. Or, upload any supported document, website, blog, etc. and click convert file or the listen button. Supported file types and websites include: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Rich Text File, Blogs, RSS news feeds, hypertext markup language (DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, PDF, RTF, HTML). Free Subscription only allows up to one minute files.
yakitome.com Free text to speech. Uses the world's best text to speech (TTS) software. Upload documents, cut and paste text or link to feeds. Text reader converts text to speech automatically. Download audio and podcasts. It's fast and easy to use. No software to download or install. Unlike all other TTS websites, YAKiToMe! is 100% free!
spokentext.net This website has a free 7 day trial, or you can choose to pay yearly. The accounts include:
- Ability to Convert PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Text files, Web Pages and News feeds to speech.
- Personal podcast URL. Lets you easily sync your account with iTunes and your iPod or iPhone
ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Their service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written materialand a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read.
Types of Files Supported: Microsoft office document, Adobe PDF, txt, and HTML document.
fromtexttospeech.comFree online Text To Speech (TTS) service with natural sounding voices. Convert any English text into MP3 audio file and play it on your PC or iPod.
ivona.com
Ivona has a free text-to-speech conversion service where you can copy paste the text to be converted and choose a voice from several available male and female voices. Ivona's text to speech reader lets you listen to the audio preview of the text before downloading it. Since ivona mixes up free and paid conversion services in the same interface, it is a bit confusing for first time users of free conversion.
zamzar.com
Zamzar, a popular and free online file conversion service, has added text to speech conversion. You can simply upload your input file in TXT, DOC, DOCX, EPS, PDF, RTF, WPD, WPSformats and covert it into an mp3 audio file. Zamzar has an upload limit of 100MB for files. Optionally you can also specify the URL of a web page. When you are not registered with Zamzar, it sends you a download link to the converted file to the email address provided in Step 3 of conversion.
The following software will convert text to audio files in your desktop:
naturalreaders.com This software will convert selected text files into MP3 Files. You can download a free version which is very limited an has only one Microsoft Voice. You can also purchase a personal which includes the following features:- Read aloud any text such as Web, Word, Emails, PDF, more
- Toolbar Add-In in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, IE, firefox
- Change speed and speaker
- Convert large text file (up to 4 million letters) to audio file
- Pronunciation Editor
speaktext.com
This is another desktop software that works with Windows 7, XP and Vista.
sites.google.com/site/saypadapp
SayPad is a free Text-to-Speech notepad application. SayPad uses the .net Speech API. SayPad allows you to listen the text entered, and save text as .wav file.
readthistts.wordpress.com
Read This! is a TTS (Text-To-Speech) engine. It speaks your words! Jute write or paste the text you want to hear, click a button, and there you are: the software speaks the words. You can make your text become auditory from many languages, furthermore you can save the resulting audio to a Wave file (*.wav) on the disk as well, then use it in your video tutorials, or redistribute it as you like it.
panopreter.com
With Panopreter Plus, you can listen to the natural voice speech on the computer and convert text to spoken audio in wav and mp3 file formats. Panopreter Plus reads aloud text or files in file formats of txt, rtf, doc, pdf and web pages. It also converts the text to wav and mp3 audio files, so you can listen to the vocal speech with a portable mp3 player. Furthermore, it supports many languages and voices. Panopreter toolbar for Internet Explorer included in Panopreter Plus reads out the text on the web page, and converts the text to audio files too. It will read out whole text on the web page when no text has been selected, otherwise it will read out only the selected text.
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