A Python script makes the Pi take a picture of the text. Then it uses Tesseract OCR to convert the image to plain text, and runs the text through a speech synthesis engine which reads it aloud.

Text-to-speech with feeling - this new AI model does everything but shed a tear ElevenLabs' 'most expressive' v3 model can speak with a huge range of emotions in more than 70 languages.

Podcast recording and editing platform Podcastle is now joining other companies in the AI-powered, text-to-speech race by releasing its own AI model called Asyncflow v1.0. An API for developers ...

Google's Cloud Text-to-Speech API has gained 31 new WaveNet voices, 7 new languages and dialects, and more. Cloud Speech-to-Text, meanwhile, is now cheaper.