Text-to-speech

Text-to-speech is available as a free accessibility feature in many mainstream devices

• Apple smartphones and tablets (iOS)
• Android smartphones and tablets (operating system varies, so depends on version)
• Windows computers
• Apple computers

Text-to-speech is available as an app or extension that can be installed.

Some are free:

• Read & Write for Google Chrome (only the text-to-speech feature is free)
• Natural Reader
• Capti (free and paid versions)
• ClaroRead extension (free with premium features)
• Speechify (multiple devices)

Some are paid:

• Read & Write for Windows or Mac
• Snap & Read Universal
• Premiere Literacy Solution
• TextAloud 4

Tools that work with Bookshare.org digital text (membership required)

• https://www.bookshare.org/cms/member-preferred-tools
• Dolphin Easy Reader app (free for iOS or Android)
• Voice Dream Reader app (paid, iOS only)
• Read2Go app (paid, iOS only) - works with older iOS devices