The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

Speechify is a solid alternative for folks who want realistic text-to-speech on mobile for everything from web pages to e-books, while ElevenLabs has some of the best natural-sounding voices for voice ...
GitHub

Speech-to-Text For Ubuntu

A simple Python project to record audio using a hotkey (such as a remapped mouse side button) and automatically and offline transcribe it to text using a speech-to-text Faster Whisper model. Designed ...
IEEE

Text-to-Speech With Lip Synchronization Based on Speech-Assisted Text-to-Video Alignment and Masked Unit Prediction

Abstract: Text-to-speech (TTS) with lip synchronization (TTSLS) is the task of generating a speech signal synchronized with the lip movements in a video given the text transcription and the video ...
WPLG

Here is the text of Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

APTOPIX Norway Nobel Peace The daughter of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Ana Corina Sosa, accepts the award on behalf of her mother, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, during the ...
Slator

AppTek Pioneers Next-Generation Expressive Text-to-Speech for AI Dubbing

While AI has made significant progress in generating intelligible synthetic speech, a critical challenge remains: prosody. Text-to-speech systems struggle to replicate the rhythmic and melodic ...
InfoQ

Voices Enables Fast Text-to-Speech for Java Applications

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The New York Times

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech

Mr. Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, addressed supporters at a venue in Brooklyn late Tuesday night. By The New York Times Thank you, my friends. The sun may have set over our city this ...
Geeky Gadgets

Whryte 4x Faster than Typing : Offline Speech-to-Text App for Mac

Imagine dictating an entire report, brainstorming ideas, or drafting an email, all without lifting a finger or worrying about your data being sent to the cloud. For Mac users, this isn’t just a dream; ...
Foreign Policy

Trump to U.N.: ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’

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Reuters

UK's Starmer says free speech must be protected, but there is a limit

CHEQUERS, England, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Britain "fiercely" protects free speech, but when it was used to incite real harm to children and vulnerable ...
The Hill

Bondi in hot water over hate speech comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi is under scrutiny over her comments about cracking down on certain rhetoric in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk, marking the latest controversy of her own making.
PC World

Microsoft’s Copilot AI text-to-speech gets new, cleaner ‘scripted mode’

Microsoft’s AI Manager Mustafa Suleyman recently unveiled in a social media post a new feature called “Scripted Mode” in Copilot Labs for turning written scripts into text-to-speech. Copilot Labs is ...