Top 3 Online Text To Speech SSML Editors [Free & Paid]

The best way to learn something new is when someone explains it, these pandemic years have led to thousands of students being left behind in content and now that they are returning to the classroom they will need to catch up and, most importantly, understand.

Today one of the most important tools in distance education is Text to Speech software, also called Speech Synthesis Markup Language, or SSML. These allow you to convert any type of file to a text that you can listen to in any voice or language that you want.

Now you can easily convert your text into professional speech for free using female or male premium voices making it more natural. 

Perfect for e-learning, but not limited by it, you can also use it for presentations, YouTube videos, and increasing the accessibility of your website.

Below we will present three possibilities to move from text to audio with two simple clicks, in that way facilitate your learning or teaching process for free. Other websites like Google have the same tool, but its not their forte, while this softwares is designed to convert text to audio in the fastest way possible. 

Woord

Woord is one of most up and coming companies in the world of TTS, their way of working is very interesting because they have an arsenal of audios made by users, at the same time that they have different premium plans that allow you to move to audio more than 30 thousand characters.

Every day they add new styles of voices, first the binary differentiation between male and female, then they have by countries and then accents within those countries. They also have one of the most comfortable and intuitive interfaces to work and ensure the convenience of their users.

To get started just type a word or a phrase, or copy-paste any text in Woord. Then choose the speech rate that works for you, you can start from any position in the text, and then replay the text as many times as you wish. You can also download it on MP3.

Click the next link to sign up: Woord

Verby

Verby is one of the most used free Text To Speech softwares, although its interface is not the cleanest, it allows up to a thousand characters for free, while there are unlimited numbers for those who decide to switch to the paid version. Perhaps the only thing that can be criticized is that it offers no options to the robotic voice, a market that is growing every day in the world of SSML software.

Contoba

Contoba, on the other hand, is known for being one of the first that allowed changing the pace of the text that is being turned into audio. This software comes with three options to translate the text to Chinese, French or Russian, but they do not allow changes of oscillations in the voice or other types of accents.

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Also published on Medium.