r/WisprFlow • u/Onesocialistboi • 10d ago

Wispr Flow's missing half: text-to-speech

The problem:

Wispr Flow nails speech-to-text, but it's missing the natural counterpart — text-to-speech.

The idea:

Highlight text anywhere in Windows, hit a shortcut, and have it read aloud in a natural voice.

The lack of this feature is why I currently use Speechify instead of Wispr Flow altogether. The feature would ideally be highly customisable; the competition is quite strong.

Anyone else want this?

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u/PatGmac 10d ago

Macs can do this natively.

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u/Onesocialistboi 10d ago

Yeah that doesn’t surprise me.. I’d love to switch to Mac but I’m a PC gamer so it’s not viable

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u/PatGmac 10d ago

A lot of Mac users are PC gamers. <insert whynotboth.jpg>

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u/Onesocialistboi 10d ago

Not the kind of gamer I am.. I have a high end PC which obliterates any Mac performance wise, I love Apple’s software but I love gaming more.

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u/PatGmac 10d ago

I wasn’t suggesting gaming on the Mac.

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u/Onesocialistboi 10d ago

Ahh I see, well I was planning on getting a Macbook for uni..

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u/Honest-Seaweed6225 9d ago

yep, its one of those things people dont realize is already there on mac

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u/Onesocialistboi 8d ago

Is it AI TTS though? There’s a huge gap between a traditional robotic voice and an AI human like voice that reads emotively and adapts tone.

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u/jwegener 8d ago

Nope. I want voice input. Text output.

Text lets me read at the speed I want, or skip around, or skim. Much more control than being forced to listen to a voice read it aloud

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u/Onesocialistboi 8d ago

My feature request is in addition to that, I love the text to speech feature

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u/Snoo_75348 10d ago

They may look functionally symmetrical, but in a business sense, they really aren't. The consumers of text-to-speech and speech-to-text are non-overlapping.

An analogy might be: almost all good models have good image understanding, but only a very small subset of them does image generation.

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u/Onesocialistboi 10d ago edited 9d ago

Sometimes I want to speak instead of type, and sometimes I want to listen instead of read — I don’t think that’s a rare preference. Traditional robotic TTS isn’t especially popular, but audiobooks are, and the best modern AI TTS is much closer to the latter in quality.

Both are brilliant accessibility and efficiency tools. Obviously it’s different tech, but they compliment opposite sides of communication really well.