Read e-books and other digital texts with your ears

Tortalk is easy to use and automatically converts text on your screen into speech. The program is primarily developed for anyone with a reading impairment, but parallel reading with your eyes ad ears is helpful to most, and also useful when reading in a language other than your native. It is also helpful when you wish to vary modes of reading.

As a student at SH you can download Tortalk free of charge on your own computer and phone. It is available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, and recently also for chromebooks. You can choose for yourself the languages and voices you want, voices are available in 20 different languages.

After you finish your studies, you can keep the program on your computer but do not have access to new updates.

If your are a student at the Red Cross University or SMI, unfortunately you can't get the software on your own computer or phone, but you are welcome to use is while visiting the library. The software is installed on all computers in the library, as well as in the computer rooms on campus.

On the page Text to speech you will find the information you need to get started.

If you are a staff member, please read more on Medarbetarwebben.