Voice RSS provides free text-to-speech (TTS) online service and free TTS API with very fast and simple integration.

1. Voice RSS
text-to-speech API
http://www.voicerss.org
Year: 2014
Author: Alexander Kuchinsky

2. Overview
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Cloud service solution (SaaS)
Simple and fast integration
No software installation
Online convert text to audio stream
High quality human voices
Support of 26 languages
Available free, cheap and very flexible plans
Support 24/7
Dashboard (statistics of usage)

3. Specifications
• Access over HTTP GET/POST
• Request/response schema with SLA of 0.5 sec.
response
• Cross-platform support includes mobile
• Simplest implementation with any
programming language that supports HTTP
request
• Provide variety of audio codecs and formats

4. How does it work
Mac OS
iOS
Plain text
Android
Plain text
Linux
API
Layer
Chromium
OS
Blackberry
Audio stream
Windows
Windows
Phone
Audio stream
TTS
Engine

5. Languages
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Catalan
Chinese (China)
Chinese (Hong Kong)
Chinese (Taiwan)
Danish
Dutch
English (Australia)
English (Canada)
English (Great Britain)
English (India)
English (United States)
Finnish
French (Canada)
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French (France)
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Swedish (Sweden)

6. Audio codecs
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MPEG Layer 3: MP3
Wave PCM: WAV
Wave (a-law): WAV
Wave (µ-law): WAV
Ogg Vorbis: OGG
Advanced Audio Coding: AAC
Core Audio Format: CAF

7. Audio formats
Support up to 52 varieties formats:
• since 8 kHz, 8 Bit, Mono
• up to 48 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

8. Dashboard (statistics)

9. Examples of usage
HTML:
<audio src=“http://api.voicerss.org?text=Hello, world!&key=<API key>”><audio>
JQuery:
<audio id=“audioPlayer” autplay=“autoplay”><audio>
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$(“#audioPlayer").src=“http://api.voicerss.org?text=Hello, world!&key=<API key>”;
… and simplest implementation with other more variety of programming languages
that support HTTP request like C#, VB.NET, JAVA, Ruby, Perl, PHP, C++, JavaScript, and
etc.

10. Let’s your app start talk
Thank you for attention!
Voice RSS Team