Let your ears do the work
How to Make Your Computer Read Text Out Loud
These days, computer-generated voices are pretty awesome! Ever since Apple’s Siri came along with the iPhone 4S, we’ve been treated to natural-sounding speech synthesis. That’s all well and good when you’re working with one of the many digital assistants at your fingertips, but what if you just want your computer to read you some text?
It turns out that there are many options that can make your computer a lot more talkative than you’re used to. We’ll be looking at both native and third-party solutions to convert on-screen text into spoken word, most of which are already at your fingertips! Let’s get your computer to read you some text out loud.
Windows 10 has a built-in application known as Narrator, which functions as both a screen reader and a text-to-speech (TTS) tool. Narrator is a general-purpose application that can work with most apps that contain selectable text.