Accessibility is an important aspect of modern technology. Making content inclusive and accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities, can help you grow your business or simply get your content more interactions while improving the lives of millions of people around the world.
One of the most effective ways to improve accessibility is by incorporating text-to-speech (TTS) technology. This is why we recommend the Text to Speech API Woord.
TTS enables a computer or mobile device to read aloud written text, making it accessible to people who may have difficulty reading or who prefer to consume information through audio.
This technology has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its ability to make information more accessible to a wider audience, including those who are visually impaired, dyslexic, or have learning disabilities.
What’s Woord?
Woord is a service that allows developers to convert text into speech.
This enables you to listen to any text you want and create applications that can read aloud any text; such as news articles, product descriptions, or even animated series scripts. The text can be in any format as long as it’s understandable by computers. It can be plain text, XML, JSON, or even programming code.
The API then processes the text and returns a response in a format that can be used by your application. This response may be in the form of an audio file that you can play back; or a string of commands that you can use to control a voice synthesizer.
How Can Woord Improve Accessibility?
With Woord, you can bring your applications to life, by adding life-like speech capabilities. For example, in E-learning and education, you can build applications leveraging Woord’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) capability to help people with reading disabilities.
Also, you can use it in announcement systems in public transportation and industrial control systems for notifications and emergency announcements. There are a wide range of devices such as set-top boxes, smart watches, tablets, smartphones and IoT devices, which can leverage Woord for providing audio output.
Another application of this API is in telephony solutions to voice Interactive Voice Response systems. Applications such as quiz games, animations, avatars or narration generation are common use-cases for cloud-based TTS solutions like Woord.
A Few Of Woord‘s Best Features
Languages
50 voices from 21 different languages. Regional variations are also available for select languages, such as Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese, and several other languages.
Smart Voice Technology
Using AI technology, our synthesized voices are of the highest quality, emulating human-like natural sounding speech.
Unlimited Audios
Have the freedom to convert any text content you want. Blog posts, news, books, research papers or any other text content.
Create and redistribute
MP3 Download and Audio hosting with HTML embed audio player. This means that you can use audio files in YouTube videos, e-Learning modules, or any other commercial purposes.
How To Use This API
To convert text into audio with Woord, all you have to do is:
1. Open the API and paste in the text or URL you want to convert to audio.
2. Select the language you want the audio to be in and the speed at which you want it to be read.
3. Once you’ve done that, Woord will create an audio file that you can listen to.
Here’s An Example Of How The API Works:
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