Microsoft Office Spelling & Grammar Check
Speak is a built-in feature in various MS Office applications such as Word, Outlook, One Note and
PowerPoint that can be used to have text read aloud to the user. The user can hear single words
or blocks or sections of text. This feature requires minimum requirements for MS Office. Desktop
application requires purchase of MS Office.
Microsoft’s Tutorial on using Text to Speech: Use the Speak text-to-speech feature to read text aloud - Microsoft Support
Moodle Accessibility Block
The accessibility block provides students with text to speech for most content located in Moodle
directly (not attached files). The only item that the accessibility block does not work in, is within the
quiz tool. In addition to text to speech, the Moodle accessibility block allows users to change page and
font sizes, font colours, and add a colour overlay to assist with visual impairments. The accessibility
block also includes a dictionary and a spell checker. It requires speakers for audio. There is no cost.
Instructions on the Accessibility Block: Accessibility Block - MoodleDocs
Instructions on the ATbar, which is part of the Accessibilty Block: Instructions | ATbar
Read & Write w/ PDF Extension
Read & Write provides web and document text to speech. R&W includes text to speech (including
PDFs), speech to text, a built-in dictionary and picture dictionary, scanning, voice notes, Google docs/
slides/etc integration, math to speech, and more. It is free for teacher use or 145$ for a single licence.
Read & Write for Windows Support Guide: https://support.texthelp.com/help/readwrite-for-windows
Official Getting Started video for Read & Write: Read&Write for Windows Toolbar Video Tour (youtube.com)
Read Out Loud for Adobe Acrobat
Read Out Loud for Adobe Acrobat provides text to speech reading that is built into Adobe Acrobat Pro.
The feature uses the windows reading voice to read PDFs, once it is enabled.
Demo of Read Out Loud: Read a PDF with Adobe Reader's Read Out Loud (youtube.com)