Free Text To Speech Programs

The programs on this page are available via the internet, without charge for the initial download. BVIM has not tested most of these programs, and cannot provide technical support or promise that these programs will work for you. We would appreciate your comments on these programs. If you have problems with any of this software, please contact the makers of the software for assistance. If you know of other FREE software or Shareware, or have feedback on the programs listed below, please email the information to BVIM.

Help Read: Free Screen Reader for Windows 3.1+; 1.3 meg. download.
ReadPlease: Free Text-to-Speech Reader, for Windows 95+; 9.1 meg download.
WeMedia: Free Talking Browser, for Windows 95+; 8 meg download; requires MSIE4 or higher.
Read-E: Free one-year license. Text-to-Speech Reader, for Windows 98+; 4 meg download; requires MSIE 6.0.

HELP Read freeware
is a program developed by the Hawaii Education Literacy Project (HELP) and distributed freely over the internet.

This program uses a text-to-speech synthesizer and can read text files, web pages, e-books, and text in the windows clipboard.

System Requirements:

PC computer with Windows 3.1 or later, at least 4MB RAM, at least 2 MB hard disk space, and a sound card and speakers.

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ReadPlease 2003 Text-to-Speech Program

ReadPlease is free software for Windows that can read text copied from text in any window. The ReadPlease display allows customization of background color, font style and color, and a slider bar to control text size.

System Requirements:

PC computer with Windows 95 or later, a sound card and speakers.

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Information about ReadPlease.
Download ReadPlease 2003 (Free Version)
Free MP3 Sound Recorder.Record and save speech from ReadPlease to MP3 files playable on anycomputer.
Free MP3 Sound Recorder.Record and save speech from ReadPlease to MP3 files playable on any computer.
Download Extra Languages.Available languages include French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, and Portuguese, as well as British-pronunciation English.

WeMedia Talking Browser

WeMedia's Talking Browser, Version 1 is a talking browser that you can use to navigate through the internet. Its installed speech engine will read you the page title, the whole page, or sections of the page that you select. It also has a "link map" that allows you to quickly scroll through the links on the page as they are read to you, and a built in search engine which connects automatically to Google.com.

System Requirements:

PC computer with Windows 95 or later, a sound card and speakers, Microsoft Windows Explorer 4 or above must be installed on your machine.

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Read-e Text-to-Speech Browser

Free download in exchange for feedback from users.

Converts MSIE 6.0 to a read-aloud browser. Special features include: reads text on mouseover, reads browser controls and list of favorites, dictionary function finds synonyms and definitions of highlighted words, pop-up suppressor eliminates distracting advertising windows.

System Requirements:

PC computer with Windows 98, ME, NT (with SP6), 2000, or XP, Internet Explorer 6 (downloaded if required), TTS voice (downloaded and installed if required); a sound card and speakers.

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Available from www.Artificial-Relevance.com.