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Australia's unique ecosystems are under threat from an invasive and deadly species – the red fire ant. The tiny ant is native to South America, but has spread across the globe over the past century. It is one of the world's most invasive creatures. It causes extensive damage to crops and agricultural land. It also kills large numbers of indigenous insects and other animals, including livestock. The ant's painful and venomous sting can cause severe allergic reactions in humans. It can also cause fatal anaphylactic shock. A spokeswoman for the Minister for Agriculture called the fire ants "a terrible invasive super-pest, which cause serious social, economic and environmental harm".

Red fire ants were first detected in Australia in 2001. They have largely been contained within the state of Queensland since then. However, Australia's Invasive Species Council (ISC) says the ants are spreading across the country on flood waters. They are clinging to each other in their tens of thousands to form "rafts" on the storm water. An ISC statement said: "Fire ants are more active before or after rainfall and can form large floating rafts, which move with water currents to establish footholds in new areas." It added: "Our teams are focused on limiting further spread." The ISC warned that the fire ants will reach "every corner of Australia" if the current outbreak is not kept in check.

You can also select any text inside this page, then tap "Speak" to listen.

Text To Speech feature depends on the browsers, user languages and voices installed in the device. Best support on PC version of Microsoft Edge (full list of natural voices), Google Chrome (with Google voices), Mozilla Firefox (default voices only)

HOW TO SPEAK TEXT TO FILE?

1/ Using Audacity

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Download audacity from its official page.
Install audacity into your system.
Open audacity, set Recording Device to Stereo Mix ([Audio Device name])
This will only record audio from playback, not from microphone.
Remember not to play any other audio/music except the one you would like to record.
Come back to the Say It
Put your text to speak inside Text to speak box
Once ready, return to audacity and click the Record RED button
Come back to the Say It, and tap Speak button.
Tap Stop button if you need to stop the speech.
Remember not to play any other audio/music except the one you would like to record.

With audacity, you can do whatever you like with the recorded speech. For more information about using audacity, please visit Audacity Manual.

Watch the guidance video.

2/ Alternately, you can use IBM Watson TTS easily just needs web browsers, but with some limited voices.
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Guide

Go to the IBM Watson TTS.
Select Language, Dialect, Voice
Adjust speed, pitch
Enter or paste the text you'd like to convert to
Tap Play Voice (1) button to listen
Before continuing, make sure you can here the text spoken well.
Press F12 key from your keyboard to show Development Tools (DevTool)
In DevTool window, go find Network tab, make sure you `Started recording network log` (2), for `Media` (4) only, as screenshot below

Still in DevTool/Network/Media window, tap Clear (3) button to clear all existing logs if avaialble.
Come back to IBM website with your text spoken.
Tap Play Voice (1) button again to listen
Check on DevTool/Network/Media, you will find some log right after you the voice played, as following screenshot

Tap on that log item, Right Click / Open in new tab, or Copy / Copy link address
Then just download that file, and done!