Text to Speech for Education

Empower learners and teachers with text-to-speech accessibility technology for education and learning.

Student Engagement Accessibility and Accommodations Compliance Literacy Support Improved Results

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K12

Help students stay at peer level, and improve literacy, comprehension, motivation, and self-esteem with assistive technology for education. Audio plays a vital role in IEP and 504 plans. Read more.

Higher Education

Attract and retain students by improving accessibility and supporting diverse learners, helping them complete their course. Read more.

Assessments

Accommodate the needs of test takers and level the playing field for exams, tests, quizzes, and assessments. Read more.

Corporate Learning

Ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to successfully complete their professional training. Read more.

A Full Suite of Reading, Writing, and Studying Tools

Seamless and customizable integration

in all Learning Management Systems & learning environments.

ReadSpeaker works with over 1,000 education institutions in 70 countries.

Voted ‘Most Accurate TTS Voices’ by Voice Information Associates.

20+ years of experience, excellent customer service, and safe, locally stored data.

Instantly create an audio version of courses, textbooks, assessments, STEM content, research, training materials, personal documents, and more, allowing learners to listen while following along with the highlighted text.

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“ReadSpeaker’s tool allows Union County College to provide content to a diverse body of learners. It helps engage auditory learners and provides a successful pathway toward graduation.”
– Beth Ritter-Guth, Director of Instructional Design and American Honors

“Ensuring that our courses are multimedia rich and suitable for all learners is something that is central to our mission. ReadSpeaker was a natural fit. The Listen button gives all of our students an audio option… Within seconds, we enabled it on a course level and within all lessons, so VHS students can have all course web pages and documents read to them with one click of a button. Since implementing the technology, we’ve been encouraged by how popular it’s been.”
– Storie Walsh, Director of Instructional Technology, Virtual High SchoolSee how VHS integrated ReadSpeaker text to speech

“We knew this tool worked; we knew that it was reliable, and we knew that it was a single tool that could meet the needs of a variety of learners.”– JoAnne Glenn Digital Principal of the Year 2020, Pasco eSchoolsSee how Pasco uses text to speech

Quickly and easily integrate audio across all platforms and content with just one text-to-speech partner.

Speech-enable all coursework on the LMS

Laptop open with text to speech reading a web page.

webReader docReader

Provide personal reading, writing, and studying tools to individuals

TextAid

Create audio files of text content

speechMaker

Offline reading with speakUp

“Oh my! Can I say that I love speakUp! Wow, what a tool. I am very impressed.”

Whether for learners with digital equity issues, no Internet, or in a rural setting, or for reading complex assessments in a lockdown browser, SpeakUp is an easy-to-access application allowing for offline reading of documents on Windows devices.

A complete set of assistive technology tools for all needs in education, campus-wide or individually focused

See how students and teachers are using text to speech:

Multiple reading and translation languagesListen to text in a wide variety of languages.Research toolsLook up words or text on Wikipedia or perform a web search directly in the interface.Personalized settingsPersonalize voice and text settings such as reading speed, text color, line spacing, and more.And more …See all the things you can do.

With the readily-available Listen button, usage is better than with other audio solutions.

Let ReadSpeaker VoiceLab create a voice as unique as your learning environment

Looking for a specific dialect, voice style, or institutional branding? ReadSpeaker’s digital voice design team can develop a unique voice for your needs.

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FAQs about Text to Speech in Education

Accessibility in education focuses on providing equitable and inclusive education learning for all. It is about presenting material in a way that any learner can access it, removing any barriers that may limit the user’s ability to consume content.

Accessibility isn’t just concerned with physical impairments, but also addresses the large population of those with learning disabilities. Whether it be using education technology or designing courses using universal design for learning (UDL) concepts, accessibility is about being inclusive and providing the best education for all students.

Often used in special education and for students and children with learning disabilities, accessibility technology services level the playing field for ALL students by using technology to eliminate the mechanics of acquiring knowledge so that the content and the meaning of the content can be focused on and assimilated.

Accessibility technology has many benefits such as giving struggling students autonomy, improving learning results, encouraging reluctant readers, improving self esteem and motivation, levelling the playing field, as well as supporting teachers as they educate a diverse population of learners.

Making content accessible for students entails firstly designing courses properly to ensure they are accessible from the outset. This may include tagging, using alt texts, providing simple text formats or closed captioning videos.

Secondly it’s about providing education technology tools that enable those with physical impairments, or learning disabilities to access the content, such as text to speech, screen readers, and speech synthesis tools.

Not to be confused with speech to text, speech synthesis for education, or text to speech (TTS), converts text into spoken voice output. Speech synthesis is a key component of assistive technologies that offer a computer-generated spoken voice to ‘read’ text to the student.

Speech synthesis is surprisingly easy to provide to students. There are free assistive technology tools on most devices. However, for it to really help students,it is important to find a high quality paid for service.

Not only as technology in the classroom, these services can be used by individuals or by entire organizations by integrating speech synthesis in the Learning Management System.

^*Terms of Service - This demo is for evaluation purposes only; commercial use is strictly forbidden. No static audio files may be produced, downloaded, or distributed. The background music in the voice demo is not included with the purchased product.