Easy to Use
This is a straightforward app that permits you to convert text to speech (audio file in caf format). There are some adjustments you can make such as voice selection, reading speed but I left it at the defaults and it worked just fine. Would recommend to a friend for a quick and easy way to convert text to an audio file.
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superior to the system tool
Using the Mac OS system tool for converting text to speech, Speakline adds easy interface and reliable functionality. It is only limited by the weaknesses of Apple's system functionality: it will fail when converting longer docs for example. Once you've picked a good (enhanced or premium) voice in system settings, it's easy to hear any text in that voice, and to export it as a caf (core audio file) and listen to it on any mac device.
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Bring back
Please, bring back the export to airdrop
Speak line
Great text to speech and a proper free programme for a change. It's a no frills programme that works just fine. Love it!
Accurate but laborious
It provides accurate outputs, however I found both repositioning the (for lack of a better tern) "reading cursor" while keeping text and audio in sync to be impossible. My workaround was to edit the file in removing all text preceding the text of current interest, then uploading the reevised file. It's a quite tedious effort.
Might this ultimately have been a user-error/lack of knowledge issue? I don't know.
Might this ultimately have been a user-error/lack of knowledge issue? I don't know.
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Great utility and free!
Thaks for this app. I would include a button to clear the page to start again becasue I have to selects everything and paste someting else. Would be great if I can clear the page with one click. overall great utility app.
It's okay in a jam
The read4me app back in the day was the best I find to be able to write an artilce and then have it read it back to me and edit as I go.
While this app allow you to edit as it read to you it starts all over from the beginning which is a deal breaker for me I have to keep looking becuase this is fustrating to have to keep listen to it from the beginning
While this app allow you to edit as it read to you it starts all over from the beginning which is a deal breaker for me I have to keep looking becuase this is fustrating to have to keep listen to it from the beginning
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So good!!!
This works so well!!! It works instantly
best thing ever made
helps me with my spelling i am a terrible speller but with this i will learn to spell correctly this is such a helpful appn in every way imaginable
Easy and quick
This is a quick and dirty way to save text to an audio file using the magic of Apple's TTS function. Long ago, I used to use a similar package called Narrator, which could more tricks, like changing voices mid-stream, and perhaps also altering the speed mid-stream. However, Speakline has the main function of reading aloud covered well.
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