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Info on E-BOOKS and TEXT TO SPEECH Software

Hillsborough County Public Library. Main address to check out e-books.
You will have to create an account with name and password. A librarian may have to help you set that up at your library.
Go to Information Gateway/ then eBooks/ then NetLibrary. From there you need to enter your library card # and sign on with name and password.
http://hcplc.org/
The Internet Public Library.
http://www.ipl.org/
A guide to selected resources across all the main academic areas. The WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/ 
Librarian's Index to the Internet. (IPL2)
http://www.ipl.org/

Other E-books sites


Project Gutenberg.   http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Audio Books for Free.  http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp

Welcome to the Free Open Library   http://openlibrary.org/

A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library.  http://www.readprint.com/

Download free digital audio books  http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/

LibriVox: free audiobooks   http://librivox.org/

The Online Books Page   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Free EBOOK Library for the Microsoft Reader   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html 

 
 
Online Literature Library  http://www.literature.org/

Other Text readers to try

Free Text-to-speech - software has never sounded so good.
http://www.naturalreaders.com/

The world's most popular text-to-speech software.
When at the site, look at the selections on the left of screen for more info. You can download which comes with 30 day trial of the plus version. 11 megs.
http://readplease.com/

Another free reader. (OPEN a text file to read from your hard drive. Copy text and click on CLIP icon. Open a web page, minimize and click on WEB icon etc.)
http://helpread.com/

Verbose is a text to speech program which will read aloud any text or save it as mp3.
http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/

TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio.
http://www.nextup.com/

BookReader can import books from text files. "Read Aloud" function added.
http://www.rudenko.com/ebook.html

Info about Microsoft Reader

You should already have Microsoft Reader. Click on START, PROGRAMS (or All PROGRAMS), ACCESSORIES, ACCESSIBILTY and choose NARRATOR. Say OK to the Info box. It should now be on your Task Bar minimized. Left click on it to bring up some options.
Also
Find answers to frequently asked questions about updating Microsoft Reader.
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/default.asp


"Read Out Loud" with Adobe PDF files

The Read Out Loud (might) only work when a PDF file is opened from a saved file on the hard drive.
To read a document out loud: Open an Adobe PDF document. Navigate to the page you want to read. Do one of the following:
1 Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read This Page Only.
     (Keyboard shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+v)
2 Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read To End Of Document.
     (Keyboard shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+b)
To interrupt the Read Out Loud feature: Do one of the following:
1 Choose View > Read Out Loud > Pause.
     (Keyboard shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+c)
2 Choose View > Read Out Loud > Stop.
     (Keyboard shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+e)

For more choices on the "Read Out Loud", while viewing the PDF document, Click on EDIT, PREFERENCES, select "READING" on the left of page. Take the checkmark out of "USE DEFAULT VOICE" and you may have other voices to try in the dropdown choices. Take the checkmark out of "DEFAULT SPEECH ATTRIBUTES". YOU may see "PITCH" and WORDS PER MINUTE" to try. As above, use the keyboard shortcuts to start and stop.

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