Empower learners with text-to-speech technology for education and learning.
Help students stay at peer level, and improve literacy skills, comprehension, motivation, and self-esteem with assistive technology for education. Audio plays a vital role in IEP and 504 plans.
Attract and retain students by improving accessibility and supporting diverse learners, helping them complete their coursework.
Accommodate the needs of test takers and level the playing field for exams, tests, quizzes, and assessments.
Ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to successfully complete their professional training or assessment.
Support neurodiverse and multilingual incarcerated learners and juvenile offenders to improve learning results and reduce recidivism.
ReadSpeaker works with over 1,000 education institutions in 70 countries.
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“The integration of ReadSpeaker SpeechMaker was seamless. We encountered no issues, and the tool was straightforward to use. This ease of implementation has allowed us to focus on content creation rather than troubleshooting.”
Owner of LT&C and Moodle LMS Specialist
“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.”
Director of Instructional Technology, Virtual High School
“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.”
Digital Principal of the Year 2020, Pasco eSchools
Learn more about ReadSpeaker for platform integrations or ReadSpeaker TextAid for individual literacy support.
Bundle robust TTS capabilities with related learning tools to make your content interactive. Our cloud-based online tool allows users to:
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. See LMS and Platform Integrations.
Create audio files that can be used on or offline, as voiceovers, integrated into a learning management system, deployed in applications or provided on-premise
Whether for learners with digital equity issues, no Internet, or in a rural setting, or for reading complex assessments in a locked browser, SpeakUp is an easy-to-access application allowing for offline reading of documents on Windows devices.
Speech-enable all your education materials in one or more of 50 languages. Any of our 200+ lifelike voices can be perfectly matched to your learners’ dialect and accent.
A complete set of assistive technology tools for all needs in education, whether campus-wide or individually focused
Looking for a specific dialect, voice style, or institutional branding? ReadSpeaker’s digital voice design team can develop unique human voices for your needs.
Text to speech, or TTS for short, converts text into spoken voice output. Text-to-speech systems offer AI voices that “read” text to the user. When applied to an e-learning environment, TTS essentially adds an audio component to learning materials, reading aloud key points, or even entire sections of written text.
Text-to-speech engines can create downloadable MP3 files of spoken text content, or provide immediate playback through your application, browser, or learning management system (LMS). Some text-to-speech tools, like ReadSpeaker’s, have additional capabilities and can, for example, highlight on-screen each word as it is spoken or allow learners to resize text for easy viewing.
Text-to-speech tools enhance online learning environments and are the simplest and most cost-effective way to integrate audio into course offerings (versus the alternative, which is hiring a professional voice actor).
The “best” text-to-speech tool is the one that enhances your intended learning experience! However, free text-to-speech tools don’t always have the flexibility or robust features to support learning within and across platforms. Any TTS technology tool you’re considering should have the following to ensure it’s a worthwhile investment:
For learners who struggle with reading, TTS learning tools have been shown to improve reading comprehension, information retention, and decoding (the process of matching letter combinations to audible sounds). And among higher education students, it minimizes widespread reading and writing problems. These benefits build students’ confidence in their reading skills and create a more positive view of reading, setting the stage for a lifetime of learning. TTS also provides powerful educational assistance for students with vision impairments, dyslexia, and other disabilities, and helps second-language learners who are working to integrate written and spoken expressions in a new tongue.
But text-to-speech software isn’t just a powerful assistive technology for those in special education; it’s a comprehensive education technology—one that can benefit all learners. Audio support is increasingly being used by people who are studying a second language, consuming a large quantity of content, multitasking, or—as many online students are—simply looking for some relief from screen fatigue. TTS can address all of these use cases and more!
It’s surprisingly easy to implement and use text-to-speech tools. Implementations are often just plug-ins or lines of code that take a minimum of staff hours to implement and maintain. With building blocks and plug-ins, ReadSpeaker‘s own text-to-speech technology can be integrated directly into any learning management platform, including Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle, and more; most major LMS providers even offer specific integrations that simply have to be turned on. Online learners can then instantly listen to course content with just the click of a button.
ReadSpeaker can also be added to assessment platforms, allowing you to create accessible tests, quizzes, and assignments that meet accommodations requirements. Our text-to-speech plug-in can read aloud all types of assessments, even math and STEM assignments, leveling the playing field for all learners, including those with reading disabilities.
No matter how your content is presented online—web pages, LMS, e-books, or anywhere else—our text-to-speech voices are easy to integrate so your users can listen to them on any device.
This depends on the TTS tool you choose. With ReadSpeaker, your learners can access natural-sounding TTS voices wherever you provide learning material online, including: