The opposite of text to speech which is basically just reading text out loud, is much harder thing to do. It must be close to 20 years ago I bought IBM’s ViaVoice software for my Mac Classic and was ...

Late last week, Netputing revealed that Mac OS X Lion Developer Previews include an option to install new text-to-speech voices. The voices were actually found to be identical to voices from a ...

Nuance just dropped a new Dragon dictation product in the Mac App Store called Dragon Express ($49 introductory price), a scaled-back, less expensive version of their Dragon Dictate software. This ...

You can change the voice that your Mac uses to read text and notifications by going to the System Preferences menu.

A few big improvements: a text to speech API, background downloads for in-app content, motion effects, 3D maps, and much more.

Among the changes due in the next update to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system is an updated speech dictionary, recent beta distributions of the software reveal.

While authors are agreeable when it comes to audio playback of their creative works, books published or listed in the public domain under Project Gutenburg have the freedom to be used however the ...

MacSpeech Dictate is the first speech recognition program for the Mac that offers recognition as good as similar Windows software. It works with just about any program, and its accuracy is ...