Is there a free (ad supported?) online tool without login that reads text that you paste into it?
I often would like to listen to a blog post instead of reading it, but haven't found an easy, quick solution yet.
I tried piping text through OpenAI's tts-1-hd, model and it is the first one I ever found that is human like enough for me to like listening to it. So I could write a tool for my own usecase that pipes the text to tts-1-hd and plays the audio.
But maybe there is already something with a public web interface out there?
Both windows and macos (the operating systems) have this built-in under accessibility. It’s worth a try and I use it sometimes when I want to read something while cooking.
There is on iOS. No ads. "Reader" by Eleven Labs. I haven't used it that much but have listened to some white papers and blogs (some of which were like 45 minutes) and it "just worked". Even let's you click text you want to jump to.
And it's Eleven Labs quality- which unless I've fallen behind the times is the highest quality TTS by a margin.
I often would like to listen to a blog post instead of reading it, but haven't found an easy, quick solution yet.
I tried piping text through OpenAI's tts-1-hd, model and it is the first one I ever found that is human like enough for me to like listening to it. So I could write a tool for my own usecase that pipes the text to tts-1-hd and plays the audio. But maybe there is already something with a public web interface out there?