Free read aloud software for windows

1. Intuitive user interface design
2. Automatic highlighting of currently read text
3. Reading to wav
4. Reading to mp3, with adjustable settings
5. Pronunciation corrections
6. Support for both SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices
7. Support for rich text formatting
8. Skipping of sentences or paragraphs while reading
9. Auto-reading the clipboard
10. Reading with control tags
11. Global hotkeys
12. Documentation provided for all features

The HELP Read application was designed to read along with you while you do the reading.
Whether youre younger or older, new to reading or have your own library, HELP Read should be able to help you read more and understand more of what you read.
Main features:
- Clipboard text will be loaded and read aloud automatically when you start the program. You may open and have files with the txt extension read aloud from inside the program.
- Internet Explorer(R) and Netscape(R) html pages (text) can be read aloud during an active internet session.
- A LIBRARY of 482 individual books, may be automatically downloaded and read aloud after the books title has been selected from the pull-down index above the reading window.
- Text may be read aloud (with menu selection) from ENGLISH or HAWAIIAN syntax.
- 5 Talking heads can be selected as reading Companions.
- Search for unlimited text.
System requirements:
- At least 4MB RAM (of course, the more, the better)
- 2 MB hard disk space
- A sound card and speakers

SmartRead is a software application that can change text to speech (TTS technology) to read out clearly while reading the text.
SmartRead is very easy to use, neednt have any speech knowledge, check the article for you, read long text, have very obvious advantages.
SmartRead used for reading aloud every kind of Chinese or English text, the electronics tool about reads software; When editing document or every kind of text, used for the speech check, increasing accurate rate.
Main features:
- Can read aloud XSF file with Chinese and English .
- Improve "volume" setting,keep same with main volume,change through Ctrl+Up/Down.
- Whether choose to read the punctuation freely .
- While read Wave file,only confirming,could realize operating relevantly .
- Realize "reading aloud from cursor" that begins to be read from any position.
- When text changed, holding functions give you tip whether to save text.
- Control the text process, it is convenient to use.

Enhancements:
- Speech Voices online download function, dont know position of voices.
- Shielding function, hide speech voices not needed temporaril, use repairing while needing.
- Repair function, can repair when engine has some problem , especially to XP users.
- Upgrade online function, can upgrade to the latest version at any time .
- Can read aloud XSR file with Chinese and English .
- Improve " volume " setting, keep same with main volume control, change through Ctrl Up/Down .
- Whether choose to read the punctuation freely .
- While read text to Wave file, after only confirming, could realize operating relevantly .
- Realize the function of " reading aloud from cursor " that begins to be read from any position.
- When the text is changed, holding functions will give you tip whether to save the text.
- Control the text process, it is convenient to use

SpeedRead was designed to be a tool for increasing your ability to read and retain information. SpeedRead can read an text file and display the words sequentially. The user can adjust rate words are displayed, the number of words displayed at a time, and the minimum number of letters to qualify a word.
A performance counter clocks the actual number of words displayed, the total time and time between word groups. Teachers or users can also later test reading comprehension by administering a quiz based on the material displayed. SpeedRead is a useful tool for improving reading comprehension tests such as the SAT, PSAT MCAT and LSAT.
SpeedRead steams words at you forcing you to pay constant attention and helps you learn to read groups of words rather than reading single words at a time. SpeedRead also has an adjustable rate of speed so that you can learn how to process streams of information at an increasing pace.
Main features:
- Reading groups of words instead of single words
- Learning to "absorb" small connector words like "and, the, but, to, etc".
- Forcing constant attention on subject matter.
- User or teacher adjustable rate of speed for word or word group presentation.

Feedn Read (FnR) is a free Java based open source newsfeed reader. It is powered by the Sun ROME syndication framework and therefore supports all current formats (RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.00, 2.00, ATOM 0.30 and 1.00). It disposes of an intuitive, fast and responsive user interface using eclipse technologies, i.e. JFace and SWT. Thus it combines the platform independent Java world on one hand with a fast native user interface on the other hand.
Features currently supported:
- Multi threaded application environment
- Multi language support (german and english attended at the moment)
- Multi tab style reading
- Tree based favorite management
- Newsfeed retrieval and update
- Newsfeed aggregation
- Scheduling for automatic newsfeed retrieval
- Easy news filtering
- Easy favorite filtering
- Archive support (recognizes already read news)
- Newsfeed caching support
- RSS enclosure support
- Podcast support
- System tray support
- System tray notifications
- Internal web browser
- OPML import
- OPML export
- Customizable interface
and many more...

Whats new in this version: http://fnr.sourceforge.net/changelog.html