Text to Speech (TTS) and Speech to Text (STT)
Text to Speech (TTS) in 2025
Section titled “Text to Speech (TTS) in 2025”Open Source
Section titled “Open Source”- Free and accessible, built into browsers: Firefox
- Open Source TTS Source: https://www.datacamp.com/blog/best-open-source-text-to-speech-tts-engines
- Speech Note app
Free Options
Section titled “Free Options”- Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft Office - speak, reader functions depending on application
- Worked with Word Online immersive reader view
Using Open Web UI’s built into TTS
Section titled “Using Open Web UI’s built into TTS”- Get GitHub - open-webui/open-webui: User-friendly AI Interface
- In Settings > Audio
- Speech to Text Engine: Transformers (Local)
- As of 2025-02: Open WebUI uses SpeechT5 and CMU Arctic speaker embeddings
- Text to speech of AI model responses should now work
- To read custom text, edit a response and paste the text you want to be read out loud, then use the read out loud button
Speech to Text (STT)
Section titled “Speech to Text (STT)”Open Source
Section titled “Open Source”- Speech Note app
- See Audio Subtitles and OpenAI Whisper - Audio Subtitles and OpenAI Whisper
- 2025-01: VLC upcoming feature for translations and speech to text subtitles
Free Options
Section titled “Free Options”- Microsoft Office
- Word: Home > Dictate option
- See Microsoft Word - Audio Transcription - Microsoft Word - Audio Transcription