SpeakLine – Text to Speech

Works pretty well I need to record many oral history tapes from older audio formats to digital. Each tape needs an intro with details on the recording to follow. To record this a live microphone, that means mistakes, a quiet background, and kind of 'on the fly.' This ap is very easy and friendly to use. The voice choices are pretty good, and I believe the museum I am doing this for will be satisified. I will now need to record from the earphone jack of my lap top to the mixer going to the digital recorder. The newest update (Sept. ’26) does not seem to add anything, and the voices are still to digital sounding, but any port in a storm!

good app easy to use. voice speed and pitch can be changed. no paywall, so far. 5 stars.

Great! amazing helping me through not being able to talk with my surgery

Poor voice options The voice choices are too robotic to be useful for text to speech. Some are barely understandable.

Feature request Id like to see an automatic voice mode while typing if possible.

Very good with two additions It’s a very useful App. One requirement: there should be way to start speaking at other places in the text rather than at the start. Also, it should be possible to enter the file rather than past the text. Thank you

Can’t increase the reading speed I got this because the built in text to speech on my MacBook doesn’t allow you to increase the speed, and this says you can adjust the speed. Unfortunately, you can only make the speed slower, not quicker, so this is useless to me and I uninstalling it. On the bright side, it doesn’t use an ai voice, which I like.

This is how I talk I have lost about 90% of my ability to talk due to ALS. I have Speakline on my laptop and on my iPhone and it’s my primary means of communication. Thank you so much, Speakline! The App works great on both platforms. It’s the best I’ve tried - and the only one I use now.