I already posted about how to hear selected web content in my old post. Now Google has introduced "Text-to-Speech" which is used to hear the written text in many languages. One of the popular features of Google Translate is the ability to hear translations spoken out loud (”text-to-speech”). We can hear it by clicking the speaker icon beside some translations.
Google rolled this feature out for English and Haitian Creole translations a few months ago. Then added French, Italian, German, Hindi and Spanish before two weeks. Now Google is bringing text-to-speech to even more languages with the open source speech synthesizer, eSpeak.
By integrating eSpeak Google is adding text-to-speech functionality for Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.
You may notice that the audio quality of these languages isn’t at the same level as the previously released languages. Clear and accurate speech technology is difficult to perfect, but Google will continue to improve the performance and number of languages that are supported.
So, Try this by clicking the on the speaker icon for any of these translations: “nice website” in Greek, “i like you” in Chinese or “john” in Finnish.
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