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Did you know that you can change narrators automatically when you’re using GhostReader? It’s an undocumented feature, and only works with the voices from Infovox iVox or ConvenienceWare, but I’ve confirmed that it does work.

Dejal Narrator is a text to speech toold which allows you to set with different voices for different sections of text. It allows for multiple chapters in each document to help organize the story, uses a word replacement dictionary to fine-tune the pronunciation, and can export the story to a sound file or direct to iTunes.

Cepstral has released version 5 of its text to speech voices, announcing improved voice quality and engine efficiency.

Did you know that there is a very simple way to get your Mac to speak pretty much any piece of text?

An application “needing attention”, in Apple’s language, is one that’s waiting for you to tell it something before it can keep going and isn’t the app you’re currently working with. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will use the system voice to tell you that an alert is being displayed.

Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the release of Infovox iVox 1.2 speech synthesiser with new voices and a pronunciation editor.

If an application displays an alert, Mac OS X will bounce its dock icon a few times - easy to miss. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will also use the system voice to tell you what’s going on.

An eSpeak installer for OS X is now available. eSpeak is an open source speech synthesiser that works in a large number of different languages.

OS X only offers US English text-to-speech voices, and they are not of a very high quality. What alternatives are available?

I have noticed in several places now that some people are confused about what’s “VoiceOver” and what’s “Text to Speech” in terms of Mac OS X. This post is to attempt to clarify what each one is and why it’s important to know which one you’re talking about if you’re asking for help.