I enjoy having the ebooks read out loud. My previous solution has always been to highlight the chapters I want to read and then turn on voiceover in Adobe Reader on my Mac. The advantage is that I can select from all sorts of voices and control the pitch and speed. The disadvantage is that it sometimes takes quite a bit of time to highlight things and subtitles and page numbers often get read out as well, interrupting my reading. I just tried iBooks and although.epub files read marvellously, it doesn't read.pdf files.
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Is there any software that is available that can read ebooks out loud, preferably one that works for pdf files and lets me control pitch and speed? I would like to have books read aloud to me on my (google) tablet, especially as most of the books I'm reading are textbooks and don't have audiobook versions. There are several available, these are high end products used by totally blind and visually impaired user to operator a computer.
Is preferred by all the blind computer users I know. According to there is a version designed specifically for tablets. Be aware, the creators of PDF documents, often do so without consideration for screen readers.
Is used to create fixed format document for the a sighted reader to look at. Even if there is text for a screen reader to read it is often difficult for a screen reader to translate it in to a helpful format. If the PDF file is actually a scanned image of a printed page, Jaws will not be able to read it.
There is software called that is able to 'read' pictures of words and convert them to a text layer that JAWS, or MS word, etc can consume. Lastly if the PDF is laid out with lots of columns, boxes, images, cute little conversation bubbles, etc, it will be extremely difficult for any program to translated it into something meaningful to you. Has an option that will convert PDF to most ebook formats, there is a listing of some of the issue you may encounter. Hey, from first hand experience I can tell you that this 'most' blind users is extremely relative. Sadly, most Jaws users use it because it is cheaper than others, and more sadly, because crack for it exists.
So a lot of copies of Jaws around are illegally used. NVDA will, I hope, soon become stable and serious enough that nothing of this will be necessary. Also, reading eBook with a screen reader for enjoyment is near death experience.:D You have to scroll down line by line, or use some method like OP did, but eventually the reading will stop at the end of window or selection. – Aug 20 '15 at 0:08.
I recomend FBReader for opening the files with FBReader PDF and TTS+ Plugin. There are other applications you can use especially if you are willing to pay. These enable you to open almost any format.
I read aloud pdfs, epubs, even files from my kindle on my mobile phone. For Voice engines you can use the default from google.
Db: 5.11:format comment balloons word for mac. Spell check goes through your document from beginning to end (or just in selected parts) and selects misspelled words, grammatical errors, punctuation errors, and any number of other errors you want it to find. To locate Spell Check in Microsoft Word 2016, click on the Review tab, then click the Spelling & Grammar button on the left. You will see it on the far left. It is distinguishable by the large blue checkmark with ABC written above it, as in the picture below.
Still I fell in love with the voices from my kindle. So I use IVONA text to speech with both UK (Amy) and US (Kendra) voices. These are made by an amazon subsidiary and are the best voices I've seen by far.
And you can choose the accent. All this software is available for free in Google Play. This solution is cheap and easy to try in any Android phone/tablet.
Allows you to set pitch, reading pacing etc. Avoid reading the page number on the PDFs will be hard to do! Since this is just text on the file and it will read all the text on the pdf file.
I would recommend looking for solutions that integrate both the text and natural narration. I personally can never listen to an artificially generated voice for more than a couple of minutes. True, you will not be able to use it on your own texts, but there is an increasing number of books that have this capability (thanks to the new functionality that epub3 standard brings) On Kindle devices you can do it for some titles (see this article for a nice description: ) On Ipad and Android you can go for books from sinkronigo.com or digisyncbooks.com, still not many books available, but very promising. There is Bookish now: It is still in pampers, but it works!
Excellently on Mac! Version 1.2 is now out and it solves this problem along with most problems in out loud TTS book reading.
A lot of them are mentioned here as well. Bookish is completely free.
It includes few very good online TTS engines like Voice RSS and Google TTS. So you don't have to buy good sounding voices for Windows.
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I am sorry that this reader still cannot be classified as good, so I only partially answered your question. But it's purpose is fulfilled as it performs basic tasks of reading out loud EPUB, MOBI, PDF, doc, docx., and doing some more things. 1.2 also denumerizes lines if you wish, so page numerations can be removed. I also apologize for answering by recommending my own product. My intention is to share it with you so that we all can benefit from my passion for audiobooks and learning new languages, which was big enough to make me write a reader, because I wasn't happy with any existing before.
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If you decide to give it a try, you'll believe me when I say that THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT! Someone would stumble over it anyway and people will start to use it, once it's completely stable. That is why I don't feel very guilty when posting this.