Uncomplicated software that can read text aloud (Microsoft TTS) in a number of languages with little avatars and some rich-text formatting available.
Language Reader is a freeware text reader and education application, developed by Authorsoft for Windows. It's pretty user friendly.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Read text, document with multilingual voices enabled using Microsoft TTS engine
Language Reader takes advantage of existing speech technologies, provides a richer on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.
Supported voices are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean.
You can select text using your mouse, and hear the selected text being read by pressing a key on your keyboard.
Features of Language Reader
- Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word (doc, rtf), Microsoft Excel (xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), HTML (htm, html, shtml), Text (txt).
- Cartoon characters, Merlin, Robby, Peedy and Genie, who serve you as Assistant powered by Microsoft Agent technology.
- Download and install required Microsoft Speech, Avatar components when needed.
- Easy-to-use built-in editor to edit text to be read aloud.
- Read text (word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, document) using Microsoft Text-To-Speech.
- Rich on-screen reading experience with multilingual voices enabled.
- Supports American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese and Korean.
Compatibility and License
Language Reader is provided under a freeware license on Windows from educational software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 2.01 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Language Reader run on?
Language Reader can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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