Text to Speech (TTS) technology is useful for providing audible content from text for accessibility and language translation. The ProgrammableWeb TTS category contains developer resources for adding the technology to applications, including SDKs, code samples and APIs like the 10 in this article.
Text to Speech (TTS) services convert text into spoken word audio. The technology is useful for providing content accessibility to people with visual impairments, reading impairments such as dyslexia, speaking impairment, studying languages, playing video games, language translation, and other uses.
Developers wishing to enhance applications with TTS services can tap into APIs for help.
A Text to Speech Application Programming Interface, or API, enables users to connect to TTS services to add speech synthesis functions into their applications.
The easiest place to find these APIs is in the Text to Speech category on ProgrammbleWeb. There, developers can see dozens of resources including APIs, programming language SDKs, source code samples, and how-to guides. In this article, we highlight the nine favorite TTS APIs according to page views on the ProgrammableWeb website.
Twilio provides a hosted API and markup language (TwiML) for businesses to build voice and SMS communications applications. Twilio provides a Text To Speech (TTS) serviceTrack this API for converting text into a human-sounding voice for its messaging and voice platform. The TwiML verb enables three separate voice engines, including Amazon Polly for dozens of voice choices and different languages. Twilio’s TTS Console enables developers to test different voices.
