If you specifically want to listen to websites - such as blogs, news, wiki - you should get our free extension for Chrome. In addition, it highlights the text currently being read - so you can follow with your eyes. Also useful for simply copying text from pdf to anywhere. It's almost as convincing as having someone sit next to you and reading out loud.Īlthough the voice in the freeware version is pretty monotonous, TextAloud is a nice option for anyone who wants text read out loud. TTSReader extracts the text from pdf files, and reads it out loud. You can choose from several different accents with this feature, including UK English, Indian English and Spanish. The full version of TextAloud has quite a bit more to offer since it makes use of AT&T's Natural Voice technology. TextAloud does have options to let you change the tone and speed of the speaking voice, but this doesn't really have much effect on improving the overall sound of the speech.

Unfortunately, TextAloud's default speech sounds somewhat monotonous which can get dull really quickly. TextAloud keeps file sizes at a minimum, making it possible to save entire novels as a audio files of less than 1 megabytes apiece.

Effectively this means you can transform any web page, email or text document into a podcast to download to your MP3 player and listen to at your leisure. The beauty of TextAloud is that it not only reads out anything you copy and paste into the voice window, but also allows you to save the resulting speech as an audio file. TextAloud is a text to speech tool that will read all this text aloud for you, so you don't have to.

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