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ReadSpeaker

The text-to-speech company

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ReadSpeaker is a neural text-to-speech provider that converts written content into spoken audio for education, workplace learning, and enterprise or embedded systems. It addresses accessibility, comprehension, and content delivery across learning platforms, documents, websites, applications, and devices, with deployment in cloud, on-premise, hybrid, or fully offline environments.

The product line includes webReader, docReader, TextAid, speechEngine SDK and speechEngine SDK Embedded, speechServer, speechServer MRCP, speechCloud API, speechMaker, and speechMaker Studio, alongside Custom Voice brand voices created through VoiceLab. It supports 90+ languages and 300+ neural voices, with integrations for LMS platforms such as Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Schoology, SCORM authoring tools, and contact center systems including Genesys, Avaya, and Cisco.

ReadSpeaker serves educational institutions, EdTech and publishing platforms, and enterprise or product teams in sectors such as transportation, healthcare, defense, gaming, and government. Pricing is structured around usage or traffic-based metrics, activations, enrollment, license capacity, and speech volume, with annual licensing for online offerings and tailored licensing for enterprise deployments; volume and contract-length discounts are available.

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