From a slider, you can adjust the speed as slow as 0.1x to as fast as 4.5x, though most will opt for something more reasonable. They can then select the voice, accent and speed to start listening. To access the new feature, Artifact users will tap the play button now at the bottom bar of any article. Two celebrity voices - Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow - are also available. The feature won’t just offer a robotic-sounding voice as some other text-to-speech engines provide, but will instead introduce a variety of natural-sounding voices that can be customized by selecting different accents and audio speeds. The company is launching an AI-powered text-to-speech feature in partnership with Speechify that will allow Artifact users to listen to news articles read aloud. Help visually impaired people, entertain or educate your kids by creating an audio version from the written content.Personalized news app Artifact, developed by Instagram’s founders, is adding another new AI-powered feature today. Listen to any written materials in authentic voices while doing something else. Use this service to practice your listening and speaking skills, or master your pronunciation in foreign languages. Replay the text as many times as you wish. Choose the speech rate that works for you. Just type a word or a phrase, or copy-paste any text. The TTS service speaks Chinese Mandarin (female), Chinese Cantonese (female), Chinese Taiwanese (female), Dutch (female), English British (female), English British (male), English American (female), English American (male), French (female), German (female), German (male), Hindi (female), Indonesian (female), Italian (female), Italian (male), Japanese (female), Korean (female), Polish (female), Portuguese Brazilian (female), Russian (female), Russian (female), Spanish European (female), Spanish European (male), Spanish American (female). This natural sounding text to speech service reads out loud anything you like in a variety of languages and dialects in male and female voices. Text to Speech service in a variety of languages, dialects and voices. Use ImTranslator speech-enable service, and get your computer talking to you! This gives the opportunity to practice your listening and speaking skills. The text can be replayed as many times as you wish. To slow down the voice rate, choose the '-' value, to speed up the voice, choose the '+' value. If the voice is too fast for you, you can adjust the voice rate by using the Speed menu. This is great for language students, who need extra practice outside of the classroom. The service gives you the opportunity to practice your listening and speaking skills or master a foreign language. This TTS reader service sounds like you are listening to a real person. ImTranslator extensions for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge. The Text-to-Speech engine has been implemented into various online translation and text-to-speech services such as Text to Voice, also known as Text-to-Speech (TTS), is a method of speech synthesis that converts a written text to an audio from the text it reads.

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