The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

Text-to-speech (TTS) tools convert written text into spoken word using AI, which can increase accessibility and offer a shortcut to natural-sounding voice-overs for creative and p ...
Good e-Reader

From Audiobooks to Manuscripts: How New Speech-to-Text Tools Support Book Creation

For many authors, speaking feels more natural than typing. Ideas flow faster when they are spoken aloud, especially during ...

'Pipit' Is a Great Voice-to-Text App for Mac, and It's Free

Pipit is a free Mac dictation app that works offline. It can be used to do more than just transcribe speech—it can launch ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
Edutopia

Using Text-to-Speech Technology to Support All Students

In the arena of digital accessibility tools, the embedded screen reader—also known as a text-to-speech (TTS) tool—is among the most commonly used features in secondary education. While this feature ...
unite

7 Best AI Voice Typing and Speech-to-Text Tools

Unite.AI is committed to rigorous editorial standards. We may receive compensation when you click on links to products we review. Please view our affiliate disclosure. Speaking is faster than typing.
Scientific Research Publishing

Early Alzheimer’s Disease Detection from Short Speech Samples Using Lightweight, Interpretable Linguistic Markers ()

Early detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is critical for intervention and monitoring. Spontaneous speech is a rich behavioural signal of cognitive decline, yet many machine-learning pipelines rely ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
VentureBeat

Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...
GamesRadar+

Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing ...

Third Person Shooters "Will this blow up the server?": Arc Raiders players are so good at killing Arc that Embark eyes ways to "escalate" PvE Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer says ...