Software now has a cross-industry appeal.

The rapid improvements that this technology has seen, text to speech The Voice Guy), a mute stand-up comedian, won Britain’s Got Talent competition in 2018 using nothing but his wit and an iOS text to speech app. It has some celebrated users, most notably, Stephen Hawking. TTS software is categorized as an assistive technology tool and was initially developed to help people with disabilities. We talk about why that is and look at the 9 best text to speech software available now.

Little surprise then that the use of text to speech software is on the rise now. Today, the best text to speech software comes equipped to handle the full gamut of the English language and that too with a natural-sounding voice. With the explosion of technology, electronic audio has come a long way from those early days. In the late 1770s, the German scientist, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein built a model of a human vocal tract that could sound out five long vowel sounds. Man has been trying to use machines to mimic the human voice for eons.