Linguatec looks like a small German company. And for me the most important factor is still the ease of listening and understanding of text even with a complex structure. Yet, the new version can also read pdf and word documents from file. I basically copy all texts that I want to read into the GUI window. However, I don't like their GUI and integration as much. Linguatec just did an update which I have been using for a few weeks now and the quality improved even more.
I then found the VoiceReader Home by Linguatec (49 Euro per voice) which did a very good job and I haven't found a better solution for myself since then. However, it turned out that the way parts of the sentences were stressed made it really hard to understand scientific texts. I am surprised how little progress the consumer TTS products have made since then.įirst I bought TextAloud by NextUp because in the web samples the voices sounded natural. I did some research on the topic in 2007 and tried several text to speech systems to read articles or convert them to mp3.
