Reading aloud in Title/Summary
Expressivo
Expressivo is a text-to-speech program capable of reading aloud all types of texts and documents. The program offers a friendly interface along with a number of functions to convert written text into spoken words, allowing us to give a rest to our eyes.
- Publisher: IVO Software
- Last updated: December 6th, 2009
Speaking Notepad
This program is a complete .TXT files editor, but not only that; it includes a function that reads aloud the file's written text. It also has all the standard features of any notepad program, such as all the editing functions, and some basic formatting features as well. Although its interface is rather dull, it works pretty fine.
- Publisher: QwertyStudios
- Last updated: March 26th, 2012
Read Aloud
Read Aloud is a free Text to Speech software that reads aloud text from Web Pages or any text you input to the Textpad or the test you copy to your clipboard (from any source). When you activate the Clipboard Watcher, any text you copy to your clipboard from any source will be read aloud immediately.
- Publisher: Read Aloud
- Last updated: August 6th, 2009
Reading aloud in Description
SpeakText
Why do I need SpeakText ? Relax your eyes and protect your neck: Frequently reading on screen will harm your eyes and neck, let ears' listening to instead of eyes' reading. Listen to stories, emails on the way: SpeakText allows you to batch convert text files to MP3, so you can convert your emails to MP3 files and listen to them on the way.
- Publisher: SpeakText Tech
- Home page: www.speaktext.com
- Last updated: May 24th, 2012
Text-to-Speech Master
This program can read aloud written documents in different formats, such as plain text, MS Word, HTM and RTF, but not PDF. It can also save the read file as a sound file that you can listen to later. The program can read in different languages, thus adding versatility to its functions. Also, it is very affordable.
- Publisher: TTS Master Team
- Home page: www.ttsmaster.com
- Last updated: May 26th, 2020
Alien Speech
Alien Speech is a free and simple text-to-speech software tool that uses a synthetic voice engine installed in your system to read aloud text files or text passages you type in directly. It can read a whole document or just a selected fragment. Its basic functionality will allow you to perform simple editing tasks and customize the pitch and speed of the synthetic voice.
- Publisher: Alien Software
- Last updated: April 24th, 2008
SmartRead
SmartRead can translate text to speech (TTS technology ) to read out clearly. It is very easy to use, needn't have any speech knowledge, check the article for you, read long text, have very obvious advantages.
- Publisher: SmartySoft Studio
- Last updated: April 1st, 2008
Speak TEXT
SpeakText allows you to batch convert text files to MP3, so you can convert your emails to MP3 files and listen to them on the way. You can read aloud entire article, part of article, file list. It supports repeating reading aloud, the maximum repeating times is 99.
- Publisher: SpeakText Technologies,ZhaoWenPan
- Home page: www.speaktext.com
- Last updated: April 28th, 2012
Additional Reading aloud selection
Nuance Vocalizer Milena Voice
Nuance Vocalizer Milena Voice is a voice add-on for ClaroRead, WordRead and Thunder ScreenReader. The program offers you the capability of reading aloud any document from your computer with a clear and realistic voice. It also allows you to practice the accent and pronunciation.
- Publisher: Claro Software
- Last updated: March 11th, 2014
QB - Spanish
QB - Spanish is an easy to use Windows program that lets you expand your Spanish vocabulary. -Contains over 600 Spanish words and expressions with audio recorded by a native Spanish speaker. -Automatically adjusts to your way of learning to make it more efficient and fun. -Nice interface and funny sounds
- Publisher: Sierra Vista Software
- Home page: www.quiz-buddy.com
- Last updated: October 18th, 2009
Speak Aloud
Speak Aloud is an easy to use program that converts texts to different speech formats (MP3, WAV, AU, WMA and AIFF).It also allows you to read PDF, RTF and HTML files. You can read any selected text from a Microsoft Word document, web page or Notepad by just pressing the "CTRL+T" hot key. Speak Aloud supports batch conversion and is capable of converting texts to speech stream in SWF format.
- Publisher: Guangming Software
- Home page: www.guangmingsoft.net
- Last updated: May 26th, 2020
- Publisher: TOSHIBA
- Last updated: July 2nd, 2020
Speakonia
Speakonia is a Text-To-Speech Program which is controlled through a graphical user interface (Similar to Notepad). Speakonia reads aloud any given text. The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can have your mails read to you using the 'Clipboard Reading' feature.
- Publisher: CFS-Technologies
- Home page: www.cfs-technologies.com
- Last updated: May 26th, 2020
ICE Book Reader Professional
To the many hardware-based e-book readers available, we have to add now a plethora of software reading tools that have followed an increasing demand from e-book lovers – the option to transform our laptops, smart phones, and tablets into e-book readers. ICE Book Reader Professional covers that demand while offering also something completely different – teleprompting and TTS capabilities.
- Publisher: ICE Graphics
- Last updated: August 29th, 2017
Text to Speech Maker
People with difficulties in accessing printed text will find Text to Speech Maker an extremely simple and useful tool to convert text into audio. It uses any synthetic voice installed on your system to produce audio files in WAV, MP3, or VOX format, and reads aloud any text you paste on its main window. Its batch support will let you convert as many text files as required in one single operation.
- Publisher: xrlly software
- Last updated: May 26th, 2020
Freedom Scientific JAWS
JAWS (Job Access With Speech) is a screen reader for users with low vision. JAWS provides speech and Braille output for popular computer applications on Windows. It includes two multi-lingual synthesizers: Eloquence and Vocalizer Expressive. OCR feature provides access to scanned documents.
- Publisher: Freedom Scientific, Inc.
- Home page: www.freedomscientific.com
- Last updated: June 16th, 2017
Verbose Text to Speech
Verbose is an easy and convenient text to speech converter that can read aloud or save spoken text to mp3 files. With Verbose text reading software, you can have Verbose read the current text on your screen out loud with the simple press of a button by setting up system-wide hotkeys.
- Publisher: NCH Software
- Last updated: September 29th, 2013
Kurzweil 3000
Kurzweil 3000 for Windows provides the most comprehensive suite for struggling students; including reading, writing, study skills, and test taking. Here are some of the key features that are central to helping students become independent learners: text-to-speech in seven languages, reads any digital text aloud, including the Internet, multiple reference sources.
- Publisher: Kurzweil Education
- Home page: www.kurzweiledu.com
- Last updated: March 25th, 2022
