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Announcify is a free text to speech application that is available as a Chrome browser extension. With Announcify installed in your browser any time you're viewing a webpage you can simply click on the Announcify icon in your browser and have the text of the page read to you. A bonus aspect of using Announcify is that in order to make a webpage easier to read it enlarges the text of the webpage and removes all sidebar content.

Dictation.io is a good tool to add to yesterday's list of free tools for dictating notes. On Dictation.io you can simply click "start dictation" then start having your voice transcribed into a text document. No registration is required in order to use Dictation.io. More than two dozen languages are support on Dictation.io.

Pronunciation, translate text, translate speech, translate handwriting, translate documents, save translations to a phrasebook

Apps for presentation, screencasting, video making, file storage, whiteboard, PDF annotation, audio recording, notetaking, blogging, book creating, comic strips, digital storytelling, grading, midmapping, portfolios, posters, timelines, word clouds, speech to text

The popular Chrome app Read & Write for Google is now available as a free iPad app and as a free Android app.