You can experiment with these voices on your Mac OS X system by choosing System Preferences, Speech, then clicking the 'Text to Speech' tab. Now choose a value for the System Voice, and then press the Play button. The Best Free Voice Recognition Software app downloads for Mac: Express Scribe Professional for Mac Dragon Dictate MacSpeech Dictate Medical CK's Text. The best voice recognition software of 2017 By Darren Allan 2017-08-16T09:51:32.227Z Software Speech recognition has improved a great deal in recent times - here are some of the best packages. Shop Best Buy for Dragon Naturally Speaking and Dragon Dictate software for your Mac or Windows PC. Shop voice recognition software options available at Best Buy. Connect your device to Wi-Fi to download and install one of these voices. With VoiceOver, you can enable more than one voice, switch between Default and Enhanced Quality (without needing to download the voice again), and change the speaking rate for each voice: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech. Tap Add New Language.

This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.

Description

Slant: #1 in 'Best Text to Speech Software' lists for Mac, Windows, and iOS
EdTech Digest: 'Best Special Needs Solution of 2017'
Listen to documents, news, books, etc. Capti will improve your productivity and make your reading more enjoyable. A great tool for students, language learners, commuters, busy professionals, retirees, people with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and many more. Capti is your literacy and reading support tool.
APP STORE TESTIMONIALS:
'An awesome program for educators and students!! My students are truly enjoying the program and are more willing to read challenging text.' - Cre8tive Kay
'I'm used to Voice Dream, but I really like that I can switch between devices with this.' - Lucky_day
'I have waited for an app to easily read articles and bookshare content. I have become a casual reader and love the ability to log articles and read them later on. All from a single app!' - chadcoe20
'A must have for parents' - Garrets24601
'This will change the way I travel' - Detroitmakeovers
GET IN TOUCH
* If you are a teacher, a school administrator, or other faculty, contact us about using Capti in your school: teacher@captivoice.com
* Send suggestions and bug reports to support@captivoice.com
FREE FEATURES
* Text to Speech: Listen to any text hands-free and eyes-free
* Switch seamlessly between your devices (works on Mac, PC, iOS, and in a browser).
* Save books, documents and web articles for later and access them offline
* Customize text color and fonts
* Support for print disabilities: vision (VoiceOver), dyslexia (special font), etc.
* Skip to the next/previous sentence, paragraph, heading, page, bookmark, etc.
PREMIUM PLAN BENEFITS
* PDF is displayed with images, fonts, colors, and layout, exactly as the author intended. DOC and ePub files are displayed with images.
* Lookup word translation and definition that are (part of speech is auto detected)
* Stay organized by saving tracks into separate playlists.
CONTENT SOURCES
* Easy access to Bookshare (500K+ titles), Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud Drive, Pocket, Instapaper, Project Gutenberg (50K+ free titles).
* Easy access to browsers on iOS (share to Capti or use the built-in browser), and on Windows, Mac, Linux (Chrome browser extension, bookmarklet).
* Copy-paste via clipboard
* Share from other apps
* Email attachments
* Other Capti users (AirDrop)
SUPPORTED FORMATS
PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TXT, EPUB, ODT, ODP, ZIP, HTML, HTM
IN PRESS
'…a wonderful, free tool for listening to web content while driving, biking, exercising - whatever.' - Doug Bardwell, Examiner.com
'…godsend for busy multitaskers. ' - Gregory Zeller, Long Island Business News
CAPTI SPEAKS IN
Arabic, Dutch, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Norwegian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
PREMIUM PLAN SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
* Available plans: free limited-time trial, $1.99 per month, or $9.99 for 6 months
* Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
* Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
* Depending on your plan, your Account will be charged $1.99 or $9.99 for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period
* Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
* No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
* Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription
* Terms of Service: https://www.captivoice.com/capti-site/public/entry/terms_of_service
* Privacy Policy: https://www.captivoice.com/capti-site/public/entry/privacy_policy

What’s New

Ratings and Reviews

78 Ratings

New version works but a bit buggy

There is one issue with the current version. Sometimes it jumps backwards and repeats some section over and over.
This problem is related to network connection. Once connected, it jumps backward. It seems something is wrong with the sync module...
Another issue is that, loading a book requires network connection, because it defaults to uploading the book to website. This feature should be optional.

Developer Response,

Hi there, I'm sorry you're having issues with Capti. Please write to us at support@captivoice.com to report the problem and we'll begin looking into it!

Works as intended

Love that I can choose which voice I want to hear, some create problems reading punctuation marks depending on what language you choose, but other language packs read more faithfully despite the accent not being as pleasing.
I would love to see the option to edit text after it has been copied into the readable file. Often I listen to literature that cites the source of quotes, and in a reading for comprehension, I don’t care to hear the source, I typically follow along and ignore sources anyways. A slider to skip things within parenthesis would definitely be great, but at the least post production editing, or even live editing while the software reads for me would be fantastic.
Thanks for making this available

Developer Response,

Hi there, thanks for reaching out and for your kind words! I will make a note of your comments about punctuation and text-editing so our developers can start looking into it for a future update. :)

Excellent software

I've only recently discovered text to speech software's. This app makes it easy to read PDF files on the go. Sometimes I want to review a document before going into a meeting and I can do it discreetly using my phone. I i've noticed the increase in comprehension utilizing text to speech. I have yet to explore the notetaking features. I would recommend trying the software for anyone who feels reading is a little more challenging for them.

Information

Size

92.7 MB

Compatibility

Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

Age Rating

You must be at least 17 years old to download this app.

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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

Description

What’s New

Ratings and Reviews

New version works but a bit buggy

Developer Response,

Works as intended

Developer Response,

Excellent software

Information

Best Voice For Mac Speech Voices

Best Voice For Twitch

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.