But Read Aloud is pretty basic: at least in my version of MS Office, the only selections you can make are the voice (between two men and a woman–I’m partial to David!) and the reading speed. The simple solution is to use the Read Aloud function in MS Word. If you enjoy having things read to you because you get sick of reading, or if (like me) you have a major problem with proofreading your own work because you skim over the errors–but you hear those errors when the text is read to you–I highly recommend experimenting with text to speech, where the computer reads a designated piece of text to you. How is text-to-speech useful?Īfter reading the post I wrote about text-to-speech proofreading, the folks at NextUp, the makers of the TextAloud text to speech software, approached me about reviewing their tool.īrief overview for those who aren’t familiar with text-to-speech. Important disclaimer: I received a free review copy of TextAloud for the purpose of writing this review, but the links to purchase TextAloud are not affiliate links and I do not receive any commission from TextAloud.

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