Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text




Text-to-speech helps with genealogy by:

•   Improving Accessibility: Text-to-speech technology helps individuals with visual or reading impairments.
•   Aiding Comprehension: Reads out old, complex, or foreign-language documents, making them easier to understand.
•   Reducing Fatigue: Text-to-speech technology provides a welcome relief during long research sessions,

Text-to-speech and speech-to-text are available in multiple languages.

Right Click  ⟶  Read - Text to Speech  to speak the text in a textfield.
Right Click  ⟶  Listen - Speech to Text  To enter text from speech.

After you have finished recording, the text is appended to the existing text.

Screenshot of the Note window in the augean.com genealogy tool displaying a right-click context menu with 'Read - Text to Speech' highlighted. This accessibility feature allows family historians to listen to transcriptions and dictate research notes, reducing screen fatigue.



Set the speech options that work for you, not too fast and not too slow.
Right Click  ⟶  Speech Options 

 The language setting is also used for Speech to Text
Change the pitch, rate, and language.

The Speech Options dialog box in augean.com showing sliders for Speech Pitch and Speech Rate, and a list of international voices. Customizing these settings helps genealogists optimize audio playback and dictation for complex or foreign-language historical records.