Eclectic Technology

Natural Reader is a fantastic reader for digital text, and to my surprise I have not posted about this tool. This article, from Free Resources from the Net for Every Learner provides access to a video that demonstrates the free version. 

This tool works on Mac and PC, and this version provides a floating tool bar, that allows you to read text on a website. This is a tool that I would recommend to every student (and to have installed on all computers in a school).

"WordTalk is a powerful free tool that ought to be on every computer in every school where Microsoft Word is installed on a Windows computer! This is a tool that has the potential to benefit ALL learners, especially any who struggle with reading or writing..."
A few of the benefits of Word Talk is that it will read any text in MS Word document, text is highlighted as it is read, and you can create audio files. The tool works with version of Word 97 through Word 2010 and with Windows 98 through Windows 7.