Tag Archives: text to speech

Tip: Add Text To iTunes As A Spoken Track

by on November 12th, 2011 at 10:18 am

This is something that’s been around since Snow Leopard, but I just discovered it yesterday (I’m slow): Highlight a block of text in Mac OSX Snow Leopard/Lion, and easily have it sent to iTunes as a spoken track. To use this feature, first enable it in System Preferences » Keyboard …

Nuance Releases Self-Service Mobile Developer Program for iOS

by on January 24th, 2011 at 10:24 am

In my opinion, one of the big advantages that Android has over iOS is in the area of integrated voice recognition services. Anybody that has used the Voice Search capability of Google’s iOS app knows that they have a really strong offering in this area. That same voice tech is …

IM+ 3.4 for iPhone is out: email push notifications, text to speech in-app purchase

by on October 15th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

I previewed IM+’s 3.4 update in my review of the app a little while ago. The most notable feature I knew of back then was the text-to-speech feature that they added as an in-app purchase ($0.99/month), but I found the conversion from voice to text to take a little too …