BrowseAloud Plus

BrowseAloud Plus reads website content out loud in a high quality, human-sounding voice. Each word is highlighted as it is read aloud and the sentence is highlighted in a contrasting colour. This allows users to easily identify what text is being read aloud and navigate within and between web pages. BrowseAloud Plus is free to website visitors, there's no download and it is really easy to get.

What's New

Getting BrowseAloud Plus for your device

Toolbar Functionality of BrowseAloud Plus

What's New

A new version of BrowseAloud Plus was released on March 11, 2013. Excitingly, it now includes:

PDF Reading
Secure Site Reading
Pronunciation Control (per site and page)
Voice Control (per site and page)
17 New Voices
Improved Toolbar

PDF Reading

Using our new Online PDF Reader, BrowseAloud Plus can intuitively identify and read almost any PDF document - even if the link does not end in ".PDF" - and those that are securely hosted. This Online PDF Reader is currently in beta version so our users the opportunity to provide feedback before the development phase is complete.

Secure Site Reading

Just like our flagship product, BrowseAloud Plus now reads secure web pages. It does this whilst maintaining secure communications of confidential and personal information.

Pronunciation Control

BrowseAloud Plus now empowers website owners to make pronunciation changes on their own website. This feature will be useful when pronouncing place names, people names and acronyms.

Voice Control

With BrowseAloud Plus, website owners can set a default voice (and language) on individual pages of their site. This feature will be particularly useful for dual- and multi-lingual sites.

17 New Voices

The number of voices offered with BrowseAloud Plus has been extended from 7 to 24! End users can choose from any of the following voices, free of charge:

1. UK English Female - Emily
2. US English Female - Jill
3. Australian Accented English Female - Karen
4. Dutch Female - Claire
5. German Female - Steffi
6. Norwegian Female - Nora
7. Swedish Female - Alva
8. UK English Male - Daniel - New
9. US English Male - Tom - New
10. Irish Accented English Female - Moira - New
11. Scottish Accented English Female - Fiona - New
12. Brazilian Portuguese Female - Raquel - New
13. Finnish Male - Mikko - New
14. Flemish Female - Ellen - New
15. French Female - Virginie - New
16. French Canadian Female - Julie - New
17. Italian Female - Silvia - New
18. Mexican Spanish Female - Paulina - New
19. Polish Female - Agata - New
20. Spanish Female - Isabel - New
21. Swedish Female - Ingrid - New
22. Welsh Female - Gwyneth - New
23. Windows Default Female Voice - New
24. Windows Default Male Voice - New

Improved Toolbar

Close Button
A close button has been added to the BrowseAloud Plus toolbar allowing users to remove the toolbar from their screen at their convenience. To get the toolbar back users simply click on their BrowseAloud Plus browser button.

Movable Toolbar
When using BrowseAloud Plus from your touch screen device, users are empowered to reposition the toolbar on the screen to suit their personal preferences.

Getting BrowseAloud Plus for your device

To use BrowseAloud Plus, first add the browser button by following the instructions <here>. If you have already added BrowseAloud Plus, you do not need to add it again.

To read a web page, click on the BrowseAloud Plus browser button.

The BrowseAloud Plus Toolbar will appear:

BrowseAloud Toolbar

There are two options for reading text: 1) Hover Highlighting, and 2) Text Selection.

Toolbar Functionality of BrowseAloud Plus

BrowseAloud Plus delivers high quality speech to assist those with dyslexia, literacy difficulties, mild visual impairments and where English is a second language when browsing the web. BrowseAloud Plus features and options are accessed from an easy to use, floating toolbar. They include:

1. Hover Highlighting
2. Text Selection
3. Pause/Resume Speech
4. Stop Speech
5. Close Toolbar

1. Hover Highlighting

Hover Highlighting is turned on by default.

You can have text read aloud by positioning your mouse over text or, if you are using a touchscreen device, by tapping the text once. BrowseAloud Plus will then read through to the end of the page or until you press 'Stop'.

To turn Hover Highlighting off, press the red Hover Highlighting button.

To turn Hover Highlighting back on, press the green Hover Highlighting button.

2. Text Selection

You can also have text read aloud using Text Selection. To use this option, first ensure that Hover Highlighting it turned off by pressing the red Hover Highlighting button. The BrowseAloud Plus toolbar will now look like this:

BrowseAloud Plus Toolbar

Highlight the area of text which you would like to have read aloud then click or tap on the Play button.