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Balabolka 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, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

"FoxVox is a simple text to voice Firefox plugin that allows you to highlight text on a web page and then have that text read back to you in a digitized voice format. T"

"iCommunicator makes effective two-way communication possible for persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or experience unique communication challenges The iCommunicator translates in real-time: * Speech to Text * Speech/Text to Video Sign-Language * Speech/Text to Computer Generated Voice"

"Voice4Me is designed as a quick and simple way to bring speech to users who have difficulty speaking. When the user clicks on a picture, the computer responds by reading the text assigned to the picture. For example, if the user clicks on a picture of a moon, the computer may respond by saying "I am tired, it is time for bed." Voice4Me allows the settings to be customized with pictures and text to meet the needs of the user. Also, there is a blank text box for the user to type a few sentences at a time for the computer to read."

"Web Reader 2.2 for iPhone uses text to speech technology along with web page content recognition to read web pages to you. You can configure web pages to be read as soon as they are loaded, read pages manually after they are loaded, or use Cut, Copy, & Paste to read only sections of text"

"If you'd like to take any block of text and have it easily transferred as spoken text to your iPhone or iPod, I found this feature is now built in to Snow Leopard as a Service. "

"f you're reviewing a document and want to suggest changing some text, you can suggest edits to the owner of the document without affecting the original text. Your suggestions won't change the original text until the document owner approves them. Once you are in "

Many students struggle to read well enough to support learning in various areas of the curriculum. Drawing on an eight-month inquiry, with 28 grade five students, this article discusses text-to-speech technology as an inclusive reading practice that allows students entry into their literacy communities, access to a variety of texts, and enhanced meaning making.

"Text Help has made a new toolbar available for free for anyone who uses Google Docs and the Chrome Browser. What is now possible is dual highlighted (two colors) text to speech in Google Docs! This is huge, an amazing benefit for our struggling readers, writers and researchers."

"Listen to PDF and Word documents, eBooks, articles, and Web pages anywhere with offline text-to-speech. Built-in integration with Dropbox, Bookshare, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg makes it easy to import read material. Sophisticated controls, silky-smooth synchronized word highlighting and autoscrolling puts you in charge of the listening experience. 60 amazing, life-like voices in 20 languages available. This app is fully accessible with VoiceOver."

"AppWriter is the first text editor for the iPad to offer users of all ages with reading and writing disabilites the necessary tools for unlocking a world of information. AppWriter is packed with incredible assistive features. All tools and features are seamlessly integrated and comprise context based word suggestions, text-to-speech and the special Dyslexie-font. "

"AppWriter is the first text editor for the iPad to offer users of all ages with reading and writing disabilites the necessary tools for unlocking a world of information. AppWriter is packed with incredible assistive features. All tools and features are seamlessly integrated and comprise context based word suggestions, text-to-speech, OCR and the special Dyslexie-font. "

"Today I am introducing you to a set of awesome tools that allow users to easily select any part of a text and hear it in the voice and accent they want. These tools can be very helpful for language teachers. Students can use them to impprove their pronunciation and develop their reading skills. All these tools are easy to use and above all free of charge. Most of these tools are extensions that you can install on your browser."

6 Online Tools for Text to Speech you would not want to miss

"Introducing Speak it! 2.0, the most advanced text to speech solution in the App Store! Speak it! has been the number one selling TTS app, and now its even better than ever. " Costs $1.99

"I received a question from a technology director this week regarding different options available for text-to-speech conversion software and web-applications. I'm posting what I know here in hopes that others will be able to chime in with more options."

Ira Socol blog post about using text to speech for beginning readers

"3 text to speech tools and 5 ways your students can use them"

Voice Dream Reader is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to any articles, blog posts, reports, papers, and books. It reads the text using the best available text-to-speech technology. The voice is clear and natural. This is the right app for you if you spend a lot of time commuting or exercising, and want to catch up on reading that you normally can't find time for.

"Where the customization comes in, is the fact, that you not only can enter you own text, then record your own voice (in any language of course) AND have individual words highlighted as it is being read! (Imagine the possibilities in the foreign language classroom…using subtitle text in one language to trick your brain into understanding the spoken word- a trick that helped me tremendously as I was learning Spanish as a teenager in Argentina.)"