Text- to-speech applications are plentiful. They are showing up on web browsers like Google’s Chrome Speak and Firefox’s text-to-speech plugin. Then there is speech-to-text software such as Dragon and many others including the built-in feature in Windows 7. If you are searching for text-to-speech software that is free and does more than just give you [...]

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Google Chrome has just fronted a new extension called Chrome Speak; a text reader for web content on the Google Chrome search engine. This will read highlighted text out loud. Whether from sheer laziness, bad eyesight, or just a desire to have a text reader on your browser, it is an interestingly accurate feature. You [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Converting text to speech can be very handy at times, for instance when you have to read a document but no time at hand to actually read it. You could convert it to an audio file to listen to the document in your car, on a train or on your daily morning run. We have [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Like automated computer translations, text to speech applications are offering a solid but far from perfect result. Still, if you had to choose between not understanding or reading at all and computer aided options you’d probably pick the computer aided ones. Balabolka is a free text-to-speed software for the Windows operating system. The program makes [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are many reasons why you would want to enable a text to speech feature on a computer. You could suffer from poor (or no) vision, you might need the feature for a science experiment, or maybe you just want to have your log files read to you. No matter the reason, text to speech [...]

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Making the computer read out text aloud can be useful in several situations. The most obvious is as a aid for blind people but it can also be helpful if you cannot look at the computer screen at that moment. Speak It was a very popular Firefox add-on. It is listed to be compatible with [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Read The Words [via Digital Inspiration] is a text to speech service that is offering quite an impressive amount of options for a web application. It is not only possible to paste text that is read to you but to furthermore upload text documents in various formats, let the service read websites to you and [...]

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