Neowin News Feed for: Text-to-speech

Microsoft's new AI voice model could be a deepfake game changer

Paul Hill — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:14:01 +0000

Microsoft has released a new version of its Dragon voice model which sounds more natural, increasing the risk that it could be used maliciously. Read more...

Microsoft announces four new AI text-to-speech voices for use with Azure OpenAI

Steve Bennett — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will be introducing four new AI text-to-speech voices optimised for conversations which can be used for chatbots, voice assistants or conversational agents. Read more...

QTranslate 6.10

Razvan Serea — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:34:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.9.0

Razvan Serea — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:30:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

Microsoft expands Immersive Reader support to OneDrive and PowerPoint

Abhay V — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:58:01 +0000

Microsoft today announced that it is bringing support for the Immersive Reader accessibility tool to OneDrive and PowerPoint files. It is also adding 18 new neural text-to-speech languages. Read more...

QTranslate 6.8.0.1 [Update]

Razvan Serea — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 03:20:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.7.5

Razvan Serea — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:30:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

Google Assistant can now read web pages out loud on Android

Usman Khan Lodhi — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:10:01 +0000

The firm is rolling out its new Google Assistant "Read It" feature to Android users. Once invoked, it will be able to read aloud web pages with an option to translate over 42 languages. Read more...

QTranslate 6.7.4

Razvan Serea — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:04:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.7.3

Razvan Serea — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 19:38:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.7.2

Razvan Serea — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:52:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.7.1

Razvan Serea — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:56:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.7.0

Razvan Serea — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 05:06:02 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.5.3

Razvan Serea — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:04:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.5.2

Razvan Serea — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 19:08:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.5.1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:50:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

Microsoft Translator gets six new text-to-speech languages

Jay Bonggolto — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:14:01 +0000

Microsoft has expanded the list of supported text-to-speech languages for Microsoft Translator with the addition of six languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Malay, Slovenian, Tamil, and Vietnamese. Read more...

Bing Speech API extends Text-to-Speech support to six new languages

Abhay V — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:16:01 +0000

Microsoft announced that the Bing Speech API, one of Microsoft's Cognitive Services, extends its Text-to-Speech support to six new languages, bumping the total number of available languages to 34. Read more...

QTranslate 6.5.0

Razvan Serea — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:28:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.4.0

Razvan Serea — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:18:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.3.1

Razvan Serea — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:02:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.3.0

Razvan Serea — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:02:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.1.0

Razvan Serea — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:34:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 6.0.0

Razvan Serea — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 06:36:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.7.0

Razvan Serea — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:28:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

Wikipedia to build speech synthesis for the visually and learning impaired

Boyd Chan — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 03:14:01 +0000

In a joint endeavor with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Wikipedia is set to implement new open source text-to-speech capabilities spanning several languages by September 2017. Read more...

QTranslate 5.6.0

Razvan Serea — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:38:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.5.3

Razvan Serea — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:36:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.5.2

Razvan Serea — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:12:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.5.1

Razvan Serea — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:56:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.5.0.1

Razvan Serea — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:06:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.5.0

Razvan Serea — Tue, 19 May 2015 17:06:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.4.1.1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:38:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.4.1

Razvan Serea — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:26:01 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.3.0

Razvan Serea — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:18:08 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.2.0

Razvan Serea — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:00:35 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.1.0

Razvan Serea — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:13:41 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 5.0.0

Razvan Serea — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:56:59 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 4.0.0

Razvan Serea — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:45:36 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...

QTranslate 3.5.1

Razvan Serea — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:48:18 +0000

Translate any text between dozens of languages with the click of a button. Supports text-to-speech synthesis, spell checking, translation history and a built-in virtual keyboard. Read more...