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iOS Apps

Apple VoiceOver

Features: screen reader, magnification, voice preference, voice speed, braille support

Amazon Kindle for Mac

Features: screen reader using Apple VoiceOver accessibility feature, annotation and highlighting, modify font and size, dictionary, navigation

Blio

  • iOS, Windows, and Android
  • Converts Word, PDF, RTF and ePUB to Blio format for text-to-speech support

Features: text-to-speech, screen reader, magnification, annotation, highlighting, web access

Capti Narrator

  • iOS, Windows, Mac, Chrome, Android tablets (via Chrome browser), Web
  • Integration with Bookshare, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Pocket, Instapaper, Gutenberg Project
  • Text-to-speech support for Word, PDF, HTML, DAISY, ePUB

Features: text-to-speech, navigation, text highlighter, annotation, synchronized highlighting as text is read, voice preferences, voice speed, navigation

Claro Software

  • iOS
  • Text-to-speech support for PDF documents
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Features: text-to-speech, voice preference, annotation, highlighting, synchronized highlighting as text is read, navigation

Gitden Reader

  • iOS and Android
  • Text-to-speech support for ePUB

Features: text-to-speech, voice speed, synchronized highlighting as text is read, font style, highlighting, magnification

Kurzweil 3000-firefly

  • iOS, Windows, Mac, Chrome and Web
  • Text-to-speech support for Word, PDF, TXT, NIMAS, HTML, RTF, DAISY, ePUB and digital screen content
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Features: text-to-speech, voice speed, magnification, voice preferences, text size, font style, highlighting, navigation, dictionary, picture dictionary

iBook Reader

  • iOS
  • iBooks may be read with Apple VoiceOver

Features: screen reader, synchronized highlighting as text is read, voice preference, voice speed, magnification

Read2Go (Bookshare)

  • iOS
  • Text-to-speech support for DAISY
  • Access Bookshare bookstore

Features: text-to-speech, voice preference, synchronized highlighting as text is read, font size, and braille support

Read & Write for iPAD

  • iOS, Windows, Mac, Chrome, Android
  • Text-to-speech support for NIMAS, PDF, ePUB and DAISY
  • Includes tools for research, writing, studying and test taking

Features: text-to-speech, speech preferences, synchronized highlighting as text is read, dictionary, picture dictionary, web access

Voice Dream Reader

Features: text-to-speech, voice preferences, voice speed, synchronized highlighting as text is read, font style, text size, highlighting, annotate, navigate