How about a free software that will read out the text on a notepad or PDF or through a word document? Yes, those kind of software does exists and I can find one Natural Reader as one of the such free utilities which does the work straightforward and simple to use program.
Natural Reader is a professional text to speech converter software which once downloaded onto your computer will save your time and save your eyes from computer eye strain by reading the written text into spoken words, i.e., its reads out text on a documents and instead of you reading it.
For the easiness there are plugins provided fro Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Outlook so that you can listen online news, emails, documents, e books, pdf files.
Natural Reader converts written text into an MP3 or WAV audio file and as you know MP3 files can be listen from any media, so it makes it ease to listen to an document.
This software does the following works
- Avoid eyestrain from continuous reading
- Make your proofreading effective
- Allow students to listen to class notes, text books, e books and many more.
- Prepare for speeches by hearing you work read loud
- Make your children listen to stories
- Help seniors with vision problems
How to Use Natural Reader to read documents
To make use of this software you can either provide the text on their homepage directly or else you need to download and install the software.
1. Open the software and you will see this interface with default welcome to Natural Reader.
2. To read the text click on Play button and it will read out text present in the document.
3. Then this software will highlight and read out the text sentence by sentence.
The default sound is Microsoft Sam and you can also use your own sound which you like. You can also control the speed by which the text is read here.
Under settings you find tools like Changing the font, hot keys for play/pause, stop, text to mp3, speed up, speed down and many more. There is also a paid upgrade too available for this software and if you are professional in need to if then this software is really worth to purchase.