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
System requirements
In
order to run Browsealoud, your PC must have the following system requirements:
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Operating System |
Windows XP |
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Windows |
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Windows 7 |
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Processor |
Pentium 4 1.8GHz Processor |
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(Recommended Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Processor or greater) |
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Memory |
512 MB RAM on Windows XP (1GB RAM recommended) |
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1GB RAM on Windows Vista and above (2GB recommended) |
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Disk space |
15MB free disk space |
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Other |
Sound card |
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Speakers or headphones |
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Web Browser |
Internet Explorer 9 (recommended), 8, 7 |
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Firefox 7 (recommended), 6, 5 |
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PDF |
Adobe Reader 10 (Adobe X), 9 |
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