A Realistic, Offline & Unlimited Text-to-Speech App for Mac

[catmademedoit]

Quick feedback, like the large number of voice options. As a former PC user, I still use my Mac in a similar way to how I used a PC.

Please could you set your app so that two fingers click on the trackpad allows the menu to come up, so I can select paste. Old habits die hard and it would make your app easy to use for all users.

That's super helpful feedback - I've added it to my notes for the next release!

 

[catmademedoit]

I would be quite interested in your app.

I teach English to high school students in China who will be going to universities abroad. Many of my students are weak with English listening, and I make extensive use of online videos, for which I get AI to create a transcript, and then blank out words to do listening practice. Finding the right accent I want, which also matches the topic and English level I want, can sometimes be very challenging if not impossible.

For my super weak students in the IFY (International Foundation Year) curriculum, I've pivoted towards British speakers/accent because their listening exam is with British speakers.

For my IBDP (International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme) students, they can have listening exams with a variety of English accents.

I have tried using Text-to-Speech on my Mac (running macOS 15.7.3 Sequoia), but the results leaves something to be desired, even with the enhanced voices.

I watched your Youtube video and the voice "Tess - British Female (GB)" sounds great for my IFY students. The voice "Zara - South African Female (ZA)" and would be useful for my IBDP students. I think it's much easier to do TTS with a voice/accent I select than the other way around, which is the way I have been doing it. I hope there are also Australian, French, and Indian accents as well for English.

Really appreciate the effort you're putting in your teaching practice! I'd love to help here so feel free dm me for a discounted license if you don't win. And yep there are quite a few english accents available including en-au, en-in but not en-fr.

 

[catmademedoit]

Hi, It's a really interesting project. i would like to participate to the giveaway. I need something like this to read what i'm writing , i'm aspiring to writing a novel, if i read what i write is hard to catch mistakes. Does the app at the moment works with italian language?

It's english-only for now, but I’m planning to add more languages this quarter based on user feedback (the first set, in order of priority, include spanish, german, french, and italian!)

 

[ignatius345]

The quality in those passages in the demo video is pretty amazing! The one use case I could think of using this for would be to read fiction writing passages back to me to make sure they sound normal outside of my own head

 

[Mr.Ben]

@catmademedoit Sounds interesting. I'd be up for the giveaway. I sometimes use Automator's text-to speech tool to create audiobooks for personal listening. For work it might be useful to have a decent option for voiceovers for videos or podcast intros. 👍