title: Text-to-speech on iPhone
body: <p>How difficult would it be to implement something similar to AppleScript's <code>say "words"</code>?<br>
  That is to say, is it just a binary link and an import, or something as messy as a libxml implementation?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: My answer solves this.</p>
  
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  <ul>
  <li>Acapela
  <ul>
  <li>A serious ripoff</li>
  <li>€250 for the SDK, and that's not including updates</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Ivona
  <ul>
  <li>Site does not present an iOS version with the others</li>
  <li>Not interested</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>VoiceText
  <ul>
  <li>Site is ugly and difficult to navigate</li>
  <li>Not interested</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>OpenEars
  <ul>
  <li>Open source, a definite plus</li>
  <li>By far the best offline TTS I've heard of.</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Flite
  <ul>
  <li>Super low quality, not worth using</li>
  <li>Sucks as-is. OE improved on it a lot.</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Google TTS
  <ul>
  <li>Good, but requires a network connection</li>
  <li>Not ideal</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>