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Spoken and other sound output

Modern technology uses speech and other sounds to convey a great deal of information. These accommodations make that information available to those who cannot hear.
Wordtalk toolbar in a long horizontal strip with a series of letters and symbols.

A free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with versions of Microsoft Word from Word 97 up to Word 2016. It speaks the text of the document and highlights it as it speaks.

A purple eye graphic with a white circle around it.

Window-Eyes is screen reader software for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, and is compatible with Braille displays.

Small device in the shape of a flash drive with a lid, accompanying in-ear headphones, and usb cable.

A portable and simple screenreader that is tailored for blind persons and LD/early readers that may be new to using a computer.

Llegir text input box with menu options below.

A program that allows users to read any text from any place by pressing only one key or with only one click. It also allows users to read the written letters, words, or phrases. It can be useful for people with reading difficulties as well as people with cerebral palsy and / or visual impairment.

Text input window with menu buttons labeled from left to right "clear," "read this for me," and an email icon button above a qwerty keyboard.

A text-to-speech app for compatible iOS, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices.

A window where the user can select the voice they want for text to speech.

A text to speech application, which sits in the taskbar. It can be configured to automatically read whatever is copied to the clipboard, or the clipboard can be read by pressing a hotkey combination. 

Speak It! on an iphone with a text field and voice options.

An app for converting written words into spoken words. Copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it! and have the text spoken. Users can create the same quality audio files of the text-to-speech which can then be emailed. 

WordRead software box, which is black with a blue "wave" graphic.

Text-to-speech and screen reader software.

Laptop with smaller window with magnification of text.

MagniLink iMax provides magnification, contour enhancement, and pointer settings as well as screenreading with high-quality speech output.

Dark blue ship steering wheel with two sound waves on the upper right and Snap&Read written across the bottom.

Reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from websites, images, photographs, PDFs, web-based tests, and other media.