On an iphone/touch/ipad, the text size is widely adjustable. Using the Kindle app for books or documents. I have used many programs, but bought Text Aloud for my brother, who is a Windows user. Extra voices for both platforms are available. On a Macintosh computer, ( I’m a very long time Mac user), this works the same way, but the ability to read the text aloud is built-in to the Mac operating system. There is a bundle special which gets you two voices for $25, a real bargain. If you get the AT&T voices with the Text Aloud, you’ll be amazed how human like they are. The first is TextAloud, and the second is Expressivo. On a Windows machine the two programs that I recommend each cost $35. I’ve set-up a hotkey to start reading whatever is selected. Most of the time I have my Mac read aloud what is on the page. This has sped up my painfully slow reading quite a bit. I read books on my cell phone, where the narrow screen with only five words on a line, helps my eye track across the short line of text without loosing my place, and I can, at the touch of a button, change the text size and or color. I have the computer to read to me using Text to Speech technology. Text to Speech For those of us who read slowly, technology can vastly improve the ability to comprehend the written word I’m living proof.
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