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
Setting up Browsealoud options
You can set up BrowseAloud to work in the way that you want using the
BrowseAloud Options dialog box. To access this dialog box, double-click on the 
icon in the system
tray or right-click on this icon and select Open BrowseAloud Options
from the popup menu.
While setting up BrowseAloud options, you can:
· change the voice and control what you want read aloud
· change the way BrowseAloud reads web pages and control your keyboard settings
· change the way text is highlighted and whether or not you want to use BrowseAloud mouse pointers
·
specify how the Screen
Masking looks and works
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If you want to read some basic details about BrowseAloud, view the About tab in the BrowseAloud Options dialog box. |
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