Text to Speech

ReadAloud is a text-to-speech app that can read aloud web pages, news, documents, e-books, or custom content. The app has a simple and intuitive interface and extracts readable content from web pages. Supports EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, and TXT file formats. Also allows for direct sharing from other apps, sentence highlighting, and customizable fonts and colors. For use with Windows 10. Includes free and paid features.

This app provides text-to-speech for ebooks or articles. Listen instead of reading articles or books online.

This Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser extension removes ads and reads articles in more than 30+ languages. It features a text-to-speech article reader, converts article URLs to audio, aggregates news from major publications, and converts them to audio.

Helperbird is an all-in-one extension that has features to make the web more accessible and productive. Provides features like dyslexia fonts, text-to-speech with natural voices, OCR, dyslexia support, dictation, immersive reader, overlays, dyslexia rulers, reader mode, and more. Includes some paid features.

Listen to webpages, PDFs, emails, Google Docs, and any other web content. Ignores annoying ads and menu text. Start anywhere and read to the end or read selected text only. Highlight sentences, words, or both as it’s reading. Includes hotkeys (extension activation, play/pause, stop, forward, and rewind). Not supported for mobile use.

Read&Write for Google Chrome provides personalized support to make documents, web pages, and common file types in Google Drive (including Google Docs, PDFs, and ePubs) more accessible. Use text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or entire documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting. Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained. With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading, and studying.

Learn the basics of VoiceOver for use with an iOS device. VO Lab is an educational iPad game designed for people who are Blind/Visually impaired to learn touch gestures and concepts of VoiceOver, Apple’s built-in screen reader for iOS devices.

This cause-and-effect game with full audio interaction offers a simple introduction to the solar system through a character called CosmoBally. The game helps students practice finger-drag skills and spatial awareness on the touch screen. Responding to touch with audio feedback, the story is presented visually and auditorily through real human voices, audio effects, and songs. Full instructions for accessibility.

Ballyland Rotor is the sequel to the  Ballyland Magic app. It is an iPad game specifically designed for children who are Blind/Visually Impaired. With a variety of stories, sounds, and songs, teaching the concept and gestures for the "Rotor" in VoiceOver, the built-in screen reader for iOS devices. Ballyland Rotor supports the concept of selecting options and settings by way of the Rotor and offers practice for different ways the Rotor function can be used.

This version of SnapType has all of the original SnapType features, such as completing any school worksheet on a tablet, speech to text, and taking a photo of the worksheet. SnapType Pro also features unlimited worksheet storage, drawing lines on a tablet, a whiteboard filter, and the ability to change worksheet backgrounds for better contrast and easier reading.