The best part is that, while there are paid options for NaturalReader, those seeking a free text-to-speech software can still get quite a bit out of the program.

Meta defines the system as “a non-autoregressive flow-matching model trained to infill speech, given audio context and text.” It’s been trained on more than 50,000 hours of unfiltered audio.

Bark is a universal text-to-audio model that can not only create realistic speech, it can incorporate music, background noises, and sound effects. It can even include non-speech sounds like laughte… ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new text to speech tool so realistic that it is not safe to be harnessed by the public yet. OleCNX – stock.adobe.com VALL-E 2, as it is called, is the first AI vocal ...

Instead, their first release was a text-to-speech program called Bark. When they surveyed early Bark users, it became clear that what they really wanted was a music generator.

But in a new blog post, the dev team revealed that a beta for a text-to-speech program has gone live, allowing creators to use the program to help create narration or dialogue across multiple ...