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Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.

SpokenText converts any text into clear natural sounding speech. Free account lets you paste in text or convert a webpage and either store it online for 7 days or export in several different formats including mp3 and ipod. Works great!

Text to speech site that accepts typed text, uploaded Word and .pdf files and creates an audio with a talking avatar. You can then download as mp3, podcast, email. Free account is limited to 30 second recordings but special teacher package is available.

This text to speech app is getting excellent reviews for it's features and ability to extract .pdf content.

great super bowl ad to use in Kurzweil workshops talks about how he invented ocr and text-to-speech

Ray Kurzweil has designed a free screenreader with text-to-speech, tracking, highlighting, note-taking and lots of books for free or purchase. I am investigating whether it's possible to convert .pdfs and .doc files into the format it uses. PRCVI is investigating this reader as an alternative for students who don't have Kurzweil.

The new offerings for school districts that subscribe [I think all BC has subscribed] include lots of tools for teaching to diversity. This site should be useful to many of us. Slow readers? Need text-to-speech? Readers Theatre? Lots more!