Voki is being relaunched now (late 2010) and is offering more tools for educators. Voki works from any and anyone can place a voki in a blog, website, or send in an email.

Voki - a free program that allows educators and students to create and share online avatars using text-to-speech technology.

ReadPlease- there is a free version and a pay version.

Spoken Text - online text-to-speech MP3 converter.

Very Cool tool worth letting your students explore.

Read The Words - Register first, upload file or choose text or website to read, a recording is generated which you can listen to online or download to an mp3 player, upload to a blog, etc.

PowerTalk - free text-to-speech for PowerPoint presentations.

allow for color choices, highlighting of words or sentences as they are read.

Orato - (scroll to the free download) PC only.

Natural Reader - another free text-to-speech software program which converts any written text to speech (Word, pdf, websites, emails).

My Study Bar - includes text to speech features, PC only.

DSpeech- scroll down for a very cool free text-to-speech AND speech-to-text tool.

Balabolka- Free text-to-speech download, can also download a portable version that runs off a USB thumb drive.can save as wav or MP3 file.

SpeakIt!-free for the Google Chrome browser.

One unique feature - it blurs the paragraphs that aren't being read so you can focus on the paragraph that you are listening to.

Announcify - a Google Chrome Extension which reads any website.

Can save an Add to Capti bookmark and then open the text on your mobile device. My son, who is dyslexic, loves this tool. It is device agnostic and worth exploring.

Speechify - Check this out - developed by a Brown University Graduate who is dyslexic.

Immersive Reader/Learning Tools by Microsoft - This is awesome since Microsoft now offers Office 365 and OneNote free to students and teachers.

(And the premium version is ALWAYS free for teachers) AND, it adds a browser add-on which allows you to listen to any text read to you, single words, paragraphs or whole pages. Show every student! They can listen to their work as part of the editing process.

One of the BEST options is the Read and Write for Google Chrome extension if your school uses Chromebooks.

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