win2k has this thingy that can read stuff on the windows and such. I bet some where is a linkable DLL that you can use to make your own app for text to speech and it won't cost you a dime.

To coincide with the rollout of the ChatGPT API, OpenAI today launched the Whisper API, a hosted version of the open source Whisper speech-to-text model that the company released in September. Priced ...

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