BrowseAloud is:
- Free to download
- Easy to use - just place your mouse-pointer on a page and Browsealoud starts reading!
Keep reading to find out more about:
- Voice control - you can control how BrowseAloud reads sites aloud
- Highlighting - BrowseAloud highlights the word and sentence it is reading aloud
- Continuous reading - BrowseAloud will keep reading a page until you tell it to stop
- Small download - BrowseAloud has a small firewall-friendly download
Voice control
You can control how BrowseAloud reads sites aloud. You can:
- Change the voice you are using
- Change the reading-speed of the chosen reading voice
- Define your own shortcuts/hotkeys to start and stop reading
- Re-define how words are pronounced
- Have the program start when the computer starts
Highlighting
BrowseAloud has a dual colour highlighting system - it highlights the section of the page being read and the particular word being read:
This means that you will always know:
- Which part of a page is being read
- Which word on a page is being read
- How much of a page remains to be read
Continuous reading
BrowseAloud will read a page until you tell it to stop. When you start using BrowseAloud, only the words under your mouse-pointer will be read aloud. But it is also easy to ask BrowseAloud to read a complete page to you
Small download
- The Browsealoud download is 14-15 MB
- The download is also specially-designed to be firewall-friendly
Saving text as an MP3
BrowseAloud allows you to save text as an MP3. The advantage of
transferring text onto a portable player is that you can then listen to it on
the move.
To save text as an MP3:
1. Select the text on the web page you want to save as an MP3.
2.
Click the MP3 button 
on the Toolbar.
The Save As dialog box is displayed, as shown below:
The Mp3 Files option is selected automatically from the Save as type drop down list.
3. Browse to the location in your directory where you want to save the MP3.
4. Enter a name for the MP3 in the File name text box.
5. Click on the Save button.
You can now access the new MP3 by browsing to the location in which you saved it. You can also transfer MP3s to a mobile audio device when required.
If you wish to MP3 a whole page, you may do this by:
1. Open the Options Panel
2. Click on the “Customise Speech” Tab
3. Select the “MP3 whole page if no selection” checkbox
Now when the MP3 button on the Toolbar is clicked and no selection is made, you will be asked if you would like to make an MP3 of the whole page. This functionality can convert text up to 13,000 characters in length.
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