# Text To Speech (TTS) Listen To Your Books Any Sentence You Want! **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** tips-tricks, audio\ **Created:** [June 9, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273 "2019-06-09T17:04:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273/1 "2019-06-09T17:04:31Z")
Hello! 😊 I recently started to experiment with text to speech tools to listen to books that don’t have any audiobook release. in fact, if you want to listen to any written sentence in the school book or want to hear how to say that word, you can type and listen the sentence or wording you’re supposed to hear. If any of you have hard to concentrate on reading so this helps you a lot. It’s very easy to get started! The first tool you need is Balabolka, it’s free and you can find it here: [Visit & Grab](http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm) - Download and open it, I use the portable version. - Drag any ebook or paste the text into it and click play. Easy as that. It will start to read with a computer-generated voice. - Words read are highlighted so you can follow along. The standard voices are pretty bad so I recommend you get some better ones. The difference is big. **I have tested a few.** Nuance v3.0.0, Ivona v1.6.76, Neospeech, and some older Loquendo. (Pirate releases of these are available) You just install them and they will show up in Balabolka after a restart of the program. Ivona or Neospeech voices are by far the best and I recommend using those, especially the female voices are very clear. Loquendo is really bad and Nuance is decent at best. They all have support for many languages so you can likely listen to books in your native language. You can adjust pitch and speed to your liking and if you want to you can even train the voices to pronounce words better by building custom dictionaries for them. ## Happy Learning! # Regards, SaM ---
**Author:** ![TTurbo](https://onehack.st/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TTurbo](https://onehack.st/u/TTurbo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273/2 "2019-06-09T20:59:10Z")
Love it.. thank youuu!!🥰 I was using the free website fromtexttospeech to convert books into audio and listen. 😅 ---
**Author:** ![Orlin](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/orlin/32/20191_2.png) [@Orlin](https://onehack.st/u/Orlin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273/3 "2019-06-09T22:09:31Z")
Do you have any good Speech-to-Text recommendations Sam? ---
**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273/4 "2019-06-09T22:36:26Z")
> [@Orlin](#): > > Speech-to-Text recommendations Sam? I remember, a couple of months ago A friend requested me to send me him an audiobook into text, I found these and converted Audiobook. it was my first experiment in entire life. LOL You can try these free Online STT, they are fast, good convert speed, and missing words works all features. - [Cloud Speech-to-Text](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/) (Recommended) - [Voice Notepad](https://dictation.io/speech) (Recommended) - [Speech Texter](https://www.speechtexter.com/) And you can also search in Google Play, there are many good APK’s like Dragon Dictation, Evernote ListNotefor for Android & iOS, good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Orlin](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/orlin/32/20191_2.png) [@Orlin](https://onehack.st/u/Orlin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273/5 "2019-06-09T22:38:14Z")
thanks man!! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/john_smith/32/19849_2.png) [@John\_Smith](https://onehack.st/u/John_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/text-to-speech-tts-listen-to-your-books-any-sentence-you-want/52273/6 "2019-06-10T03:24:52Z")
Thank you sam