Talking Scripts

With advances in Apple’s text-to-speech technology, We found a way to create an app which ‘reads’ a script to you, one that can guess male sounding from female sounding characters. One that knows what parts of the script should not be read, like page headers, watermarks or “continued”.

 

Talking Scripts uses a simple interface to allow you to listen to

PDF TV scripts or film screenplays. 

 

Talking scripts imports any PDF script and analyses it to see all the

character names. It then identifies the four main characters based on the

dialogue and assigns them a gender along with the other characters, using

an inbuilt database of names. This list is presented to the user and they

can correct the gender of any names they wish to and the database

will update with the new gender assignment. 

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It then reads the scrips with up to seven voices, four for the lead characters,

one narrator who reads  the “action” and two more for the supporting male

and female characters.  It doesn’t get bogged down in reading headers,

footers, page number, mores, cont’d etc. 

 

It offers features such as:

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• create script notes with Siri integration, then share them.

• emotion enhancing algorithms and acronym recognition in HQ mode

• variable voice pitch and voice speed

• Line Learning function for actors to practise their lines.

• night mode

• pause for calls

• listen to music playlist on your favourite player as you listen to a script

• progress bar

• knows the gender of your script's characters

• learns gender of new character names

• bookmarks your last position in a current script

• ignores page numbers, headers, footers, continued, watermarks etc

• use high quality enhanced voices which you can choose

• create reminders so you always finish your scripts on time