Saturday, June 20, 2015

Natural Reader

Natural Reader is a great text to speech software that is especially useful for those with dyslexia.  It is a software that offers natural sounding voices.  Sometimes, the typical computer sounding voice is difficult to understand and can get annoying to listen to after a while.  With the natural sounding voices, it makes text easier to listen to.  Natural Reader can read Microsoft Word documents, websites, and even PDF files.  There is even an OCR feature that can convert printed characters into written text (like when trying to translate from a PDF).

There are different price ranges for this app.  The free app offers "Microsoft voices", which are more computer-like.  It offers the "floating bar" option, which is a tool bar that consistently shows up on your screen.  That way, you do not have to keep opening the app every time you want to access it.  When upgrading to the "Personal" software ($69.50) you receive the 2 "natural voice" options, plus an mp3 converter options.  There are two other app options, "Professional" and "Ultimate" that offer more functions.  Regardless of the one you may choose to download, Natural Reader can be extremely helpful for any struggling reader, but especially helpful for those with dyslexia.


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