Free Text to Speech Software
I recommend that you purchase reputable text to speech software that offer many great features such as word prediction, typing echo, speaking dictionary, human voice playback, and more. But for those that are on a tight budget (which I understand), check out the links below for free text to speech software downloads. I do not sponsor these downloads or software, so check them out carefully based upon your individual needs and proceed at your own risk. Click here for less expensive text to speech software.
NaturalReader
PC or mac
$49.50 or Free version
http://www.naturalreaders.com/products.htm NaturalReader is Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod.
Power Text to Speech Reader
$29.95 , or Free version
Windows
http://www.1speechsoft.com/ Text to Speech Reader is an award-winning text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails or web pages instead of reading on screen,it uses voice synthesis to create spoken audio from text with natural voices. You can listen on your PC or save text to MP3 or wave files for listening later.
http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id=80094/ Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments.
ReadPlease
http://www.readplease.com/ Reads any text you see on your screen – all purpose text-to-speech software.
Verbose
http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/ Verbose is a free text to speech program for Windows. It will read aloud any text or save it as MP3.
HELP Read™
http://www.ldpride.net/helpread.htm Help Read is a program developed by the Hawaii Education Literacy Project (HELP) and distributed freely over the internet.