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Text to speech for mac how to#
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In the future there may be more voices for the Mac as Apple has released a new capability on macOS Ventura to create the new apps for the App Store that can act as voice providers.

Speech Central has the list of compatible providers in the app. Some of those voices may require administrator rights to work which would cause a possible incompatibility.

Voices of some providers on Windows may not be compatible with all apps.

At the moment it seems that on the Mac you can get voices only from CereProc, while on Windows there are few more providers.

The choice of providers is fairly small as providers more and more opt for internet streaming – the variant where they can have much higher profits.Regarding this capability you should have following in mind:

Text to speech for mac free#

While those voices are usually not free (at least those that provide higher levels of quality) they are still just one time payment in the range of 25$ that are notably less expensive than internet voice streaming solutions and as such may be a worthy alternative. Both operating system have a support for 3rd party voices.

Text to speech for mac update#

Apple did provide multiple updates in that time frame but most notable update that you should consider comes with macOS Ventura that provides a new quality tier called Premium which brings significant improvements over the Enhanced quality voices. Microsoft hasn’t updated its text-to-speech functionality for a long time (since Windows 8.1) so it is likely that all available platforms do provide the same quality.

Please note that all versions of operating systems may not provide the same voices.

The Premium Apple voices sound significantly better than Microsoft voices. The Enhanced Apple voices generally sound a bit better than Microsoft’s voices. The Standard Apple voices appear to sound significantly worse than Microsoft’s voices. As such it is worth to compare various levels of quality provided by Apple to Microsoft’s voices. I will provide some general estimates based on the feedback provided by users of Speech Central and my personal opinion.

The perception of quality of voices comes down to personal preferences and may be influenced by the previous experience of user.

Please note that some voices/languages may not have all quality tiers.

Text to speech for mac how to#

Apple provides more details on how to install those voices from the system Settings.

Text to speech for mac manual#

While all voices are installed in the standard quality, usually only one or two voices may be installed in the enhanced quality and Premium quality requires manual install by the user. It is important to note that all quality levels are not installed by default on the Mac. Unlike that Windows has only one tier of the quality.

Mac supports three levels of quality for most voices: Standard, Enhanced and Premium.Microsoft provides more details on how to install those voices from the system Settings. Mac has support for all available languages installed out of box. By default usually only one language pack is installed and you need to install more packages if you want more languages to support this function. Windows provides text-to-speech voices in the form of the language packs which are installed from the system Settings (or Control Panel).There are some notable differences among Mac and Windows regarding those: As those voices are available with no additional costs their quality is very important. As such it may be useful for potential users to be educated on differences of voices provided by the most popular desktop operating systems that Speech Central supports – Windows and macOS.īoth Windows and Mac come with built-in voices. Speech Central is dependent on the voices provided by the device.