Hasn't Google had a Text-to-Speech service (for e.g. the speaker button in the Google Translate page) that's been around for aeons? I remember it sounding pret

Hasn't Google had a Text-to-Speech service (for e.g. the speaker button in the Google Translate page) that's been around for aeons? I remember it sounding pretty life-like. Don't know if they expose an API for it, and sell it though. (It would be great if they did.)