An open source project hopes to draw on crowdsourced contributions to make Wikipedia more accessible by adding text to speech synthesis that will enable users of the online encyclopedia to have ...

Project Gutenberg has spent decades assembling a library of free literature in text format to make it widely available for free, but audiobooks could make the material even more accessible.

To overcome these audiobook obstacles, Project Gutenberg and Microsoft have created thousands of free audiobooks that use neural text-to-speech technology to generate the voices.

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… ...

Those of us who were around in the late 70s and into the 80s might remember the Speak & Spell, a children’s toy with a remarkable text-to-speech synthesizer. While it sounds dated by toda… ...

The project is working to update voice-recognition software used in text-to-speech programs and virtual assistants like Siri to better process speech from people who don’t have “perfect ...