Text to speech apps for Mac

Text-to-speech apps turn written content, such as documents, PDFs, and web articles, into spoken audio. They can support reading along with word highlighting or creating audiobooks from manuscripts.

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Elmren Voice

Books
Text-to-speech app that converts documents into audiobooks and read-along files locally on Apple silicon Macs.
Text to speech
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Aloud

Productivity
Text-to-speech app for documents, articles, and images, with word-by-word highlighting.
Text to speech
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TextSniper

Productivity
A screen text recognition tool that copies non-selectable text to the clipboard.
OCR