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ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE. The app is free, very easy to use, and requires NO REGISTRATION. Simply take a picture of a document that you would like to extract text from, and e-mail the image to yourself, co-workers, friends. You will all receive not only the image but a text file that contains the editable text that is extracted from the image. Currently we are supporting English documents only.

Write U& Say. Text to speech text app

PDF to Audio Offline, another app that will provide text to speech support for almost any text file. 

Balablolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

SSReader is a free, large font reader for OS X that speaks text files aloud and displays the text stanza-after-stanza, simultaneously. -- See a demonstration! Although this reader was created to assist those with visual impairments, it can be used by anyone. This program works reads any text file, including those from: Project Gutenberg

free online automatic text summarization tool. paste text into box and then determine percentage of text to keep in summary

ChromeVis is a Google Chrome extension designed to make it easier for people with vision impairments to read the content of webpages. When installed ChromeVis allows you to highlight the text on any webpage and have it enlarged and placed on an easy-to-read background. Your highlighted text appears in a pop-up box over the original page so that you can quickly go back to the original source if you want to. ChromeVis can be adjusted to meet your text size and text color preferences.

Add text note, take picture, import text message, add bookmarks to your library * Organize text note, picture, bookmarks etc into lists * Sync data with diigo.com * Mark webpages as "read later" in desktop browsers, then read it on the phone

Talking Clipboard is a text to speech conversion software, that can read, any type of document, whether ePub books, web pages (HTML), CHM, PDF, MS Word, RTF, RSS feeds, scanned image documents, etc. using natural sounding synthetic voices (SAPI 5 compliant) and can convert them to MP3 or WAV audio files for your portable music player.

Were you aware that there is an application that can AUTOMATICALLY:: 1. Scan the pages of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) texts; 2. Convert the text into digital text; and, 3. Convert all the STEM content into either LaTeX or MathML? The app is for real and its name is InftyReader: http://inftyreader.org  It is freely available for you to download and experiment with. Here are the links: 1. Fully-functional demos: http://www.inftyreader.org/?p=29  2. Videos: http://www.inftyreader.org/?p=193  3. Examples of Results: http://www.inftyreader.org/?p=61

 A comparison of Text To Speech Apps. I didn't see CoWriter in the list which is now available as an app

Android TExt to Speech apps

E-Text websites

list of free text to speech software or additions.

Free OCR to Word; scan and convert the text in the image to Word or other text bype documents

Science Writer steps students through the process of writing a report with introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections. Students draft, revise, and edit their report, using just-in-time support from pedagogical agents who offer models and information about how to write each section. They may also access content and editing checklists to help them evaluate their writing and make revisions. And finally, students can use the embedded text-to-speech tool to listen to their writing to see if it "sounds right" and to listen to any of the directions and instructional material, as well as accessing vocabulary definitions. Each student has their own Science Writer account and teach

audiobooks which sink to the text of the book. The audiobooks are read by individuals. Most of the classic audiobooks are either free or very inexpensive. The recording is quite good and it synchronizes very nicely with text. It does not highlight the words as it reads but it will automatically turn pages when you get to the end of the page.

create a portrait with your words. you upload a picutre and then either link to cites where you have text or you add your own text

Evernote Tech blog announcing the speech to text capabiity addition to the Android app

SwipeType adds text editing shortcuts to the keyboard. Simply swipe your finger on the keyboard from the space key to specific keys to select text, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, scroll to the start or end & much more!