ReadSpeaker Adds Text-to-Speech Offerings to Total 245 Voices and 68 Languages
- By Kate Lucariello
- 12/08/22
ReadSpeaker,
an integrated text-to-speech (TTS) provider, has announced its audio
library now features 245 voices and 68 languages, including some
considered threatened and endangered, with new ones continually being
developed by on-staff linguists and language experts. The audio
library is available to both K–12 and higher education.
Digital
voices can be created with less data and greater fidelity, using AI
and DNN technology, the company said. Students can use ReadSpeaker’s
assistive technology on smartphones, tablets, computers and other
devices to hear content read in any available language. ReadSpeaker
can read online documents, web content, forms, and other formats,
using the speechCloud API. It will also work with the open source
communication application platform Asterisk to add TTS capabilities
to PBX/IVR systems.
Some
of the threatened and endangered languages included in ReadSpeaker’s
library are Welsh, Basque, and Frisian, all classified as vulnerable
languages by UNESCO. Visit
this page to read the most recent version of UNESCO’s “Atlas of
the World’s Languages in Danger.” Making such
languages accessible in a familiar format for students
as part of their learning and school assignments is an added benefit
in helping to preserve and nurture cultural identity, ReadSpeaker
said.
Visit
this page to learn more about ReadSpeaker’s platforms, servers, and
applications.
About the Author
Kate Lucariello is a former newspaper editor, EAST Lab high school teacher and college English teacher.