SayIt - Text to Speech Utility 4+
Tiki-Taka Limited
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- $1.99
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Description
SayIt is the ultimate text to speech utility!
SayIt provides a simple and fun way to have text read aloud to you and to create spoken audio files of any text. SayIt supports non-English languages in OS X Lion.
• choose from over 10 voices, with further voices and non-English voices available for free download from Apple to OS X Lion users via System Preferences
• save spoken text to an audio file in AAC or AIFF format to share or add to iTunes
• modify the speaking rate to suit your preferences
• easy copy and paste of any text including from long documents
• supports additional third-party voices from cepstral.com, cereproc.com and assistiveware.com including non-English voices and regional accents
• tested for VoiceOver compatibility
Note for OS X Lion users: to download additional voices, go to System Preferences → Speech → System Voice → Customize… and choose additional voices to download for free. Once the download has completed relaunch SayIt to use your new voices.
What’s New
Version 1.1
Features and improvements:
• you can now save in AAC format (compressed and ideal for iTunes and iPods/iPhones) in addition to AIFF (uncompressed and suitable for further audio editing or production)
• you can now adjust the speaking rate (words spoken per minute). rate adjustment is not supported by all voices
• you can now set your preferred default speaking rate
• additional keyboard shortcuts and menus
• window size and location are now remembered
• tested for VoiceOver compatibility
• bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Easy to Use & Save Files, Limited Voices
It's easy to copy text in, and play it direclty in the window, or save the text to speech in an audio file to import into iTunes.
SayIt does include a long list of voices, however only several are worth using. Many are hard to understand and/or sound very digital. You can adjust the speed of the voices which is nice.
I'd also like to see a bit more pause between sentenaces and paragraphs. App could use a few more options in how it reads.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the feedback and glad know you find the SayIt so useful!
Great App with a Caveat
This App is definitely worth the price. Worth every penny.
Caveat: I only found out after purchasing this App that Mac OS already has a tool built in with similar function that allows you to use it from any application. Go to "System Preferences", then "Speech", "Text to Speech", "Speak select text when the key is pressed", "Set Key." After you have set the key all you have to do is highlight anything and then press the 3 keys you set up and it will text-to-speech from just about any document or program. I still use this App when I want to follow along with the highlighting feature on this App.
It is not “Watson,” but it can sounds like him.
I use this app to read me long documents that I really don’t want to waist the eye power to read myself. There is no limit to how many words you can put in for it to dictate, so if you want to read that history book (Ironically for me it was “1984,” things were messed up back then), while playing COD, this is the App for you!
Although the voices sound like robots, they are a lot clearer than most “text to speech” programs, and for that I say, "get this app!" whether you use it for productive use, or just for fun, it is a great app to have.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Tiki-Taka Limited
- Size
- 205.9 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.6.6 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2011 Colm McMullan & Richard Keen
- Price
- $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.