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General question about Windows 7, is it possible to get Windows 7 to read text out loud?

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Yes, use the Narrator accessibility feature.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/accessibility

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  • Is there a way to get it to read emails from Outlook?
    – sep332
    Jan 30, 2013 at 21:10
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    @sep332 - The Narrator should be able to read most applications. Feb 19, 2013 at 17:13
  • OK it sort of works in the new Outlook 2013 I just got, but it doesn't work at all with Outlook 2007.
    – sep332
    Feb 19, 2013 at 20:28
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You can try Talking Clipboard for Windows 7.

Talking Clipboard is a text to speech conversion software, that can read, any type of document, whether ePub books, web pages (HTML), CHM, PDF, MS Word, RTF, RSS feeds, scanned image documents, etc. using natural sounding synthetic voices (SAPI 5 compliant) and can convert them to MP3 or WAV audio files for your portable music player.

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  • How do I get it? Is this actually some software? Looks like a blog. Oct 10, 2017 at 23:09
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i'm using Cool Reader 2, works fine with Windows 7 x86 (haven't tried with x64)

just load the text file into CR2 and hit Enter to toggle ReadAloud (TTS) on/off or F2 export to MP3.

supported formats: TXT, RTF, DOC, HTML and FB2 (even archived as RAR, ZIP, HA, ARJ or LHA)

CoolReader 2 is free and portable (doesn't require installation)

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