I hope they have made version 3 a bit less complex to use. Semi-Desktop and Webapp versions make it. I’ve only used version 2 and the new version 3 is available. Capti Voice, Voice Dream Reader, and Natural Reader are probably your best bets out of the 10 options considered. It works on Windows 10 even though it might say Windows 7. You can use it in your mail, on a web page or in a document. This app reads aloud anything you select. You will have to hunt around the web for a download link, but it will be worth it. If you are a Windows user you might be able to find the great app called Ivona minireader. I set a “hot key” in the keyboard settings, whenever I press this key combo, any selected text is read aloud. Alex is a system voice for Macintosh, but I’ve found some unbelievably humanistic voices from ConvenienceWare AT&T Natural Voices and CereProc, but the best of the best so far is AT&T Mike. I try to get people to send me electronic documents, not paper, because Alex, the voice of my computer, can read the documents to me. It allows me to read things which would be difficult and very time consuming. I have vision, but I don’t read well, and the TTS is a tremendous benefit to me. I use the Mac speech function called text to speech (TTS) which reads, in a very humanistic voice, whatever text I select.
