Text to Speech
1 min read · Reviewed 17 Oct 2026
In short
Turning written words into spoken audio.
In plain English
Software that reads text aloud in a synthetic voice. Modern versions are close enough to human that the script, not the voice, is now the limiting factor.
A real example
Turning a written guide into an audio version so people can listen while driving — produced in minutes rather than booked into a studio.
Why it matters
Good audio needs a script written for the ear: shorter sentences, structure spoken aloud, numbers spelled out. Feeding it text written for the page is why most AI narration sounds wrong.
