Verbose- A More Powerful Tool for Vision and Learning Disabilities

Verbose is a text to speech program which will read text or saved documents. Voice settings allows changes to speed, pitch and volume of the speech engine voice.  Converts text to voice or saves as mp3 to play later or save for a later time. There is a professional and a free version of Verbose. The professional version works with more formats, provides different voices, and will convert information from a picture as well as a text document.

• Reads any text on your computer out loud
• Convert text to mp3 and save to listen to later
• Installs and ready to read text in just minutes
• With Verbose text reading software, you can have Verbose read the current text on your screen out loud with the simple press of a button by setting up system-wide hotkeys.

Screen Reader Applications

• Save email text to mp3 to review
• PC reads long documents to you
• Use voice synthesis
• Listen to an ebook on your way to work
• Study for exams by listening to your notes
• Proofread by having your writing read back to you
• Convert doc to mp3
• Save audio for computer voice announcement systems

Text to Speech Features

• Reads text using text to speech technology
• Save speech as compressed mp3 files
• Change voice characteristics setting to change speed, pitch and volume
• Read text from Internet Explorer, Word, Outlook and other programs
• Install new speech engine reading voices
• Set mp3 and wav encoding options
• Customize hotkeys to read text from any program

There are tools to modify the recording by cropping it, this will allow you to take out areas of the recording making it easier to understand and only a recording of the information that you wanted. There are many other similar programs but this one seems to be more adapted for people with disabilities.