
Capture a photograph or short video (15-30 seconds) of yourself reading to the child.


This year we will Celebrate the Read to ME Challenge with a series of recorded videos by students and adults. The Read to ME Challenge is a month-long public awareness campaign to promote childhood literacy in Maine held annually during February. Read our guide: How to convert text-to-speech with Balabolka. With all these features to make life easier when reading text on a screen isn't an option, Balabolka is best free text-to-speech software around. For lengthy documents, you can create bookmarks to make it easy to jump back to a specific location and there are excellent tools on hand to help you to customize the pronunciation of words to your liking. In addition to reading words aloud, this free text-to-speech software can also save narrations as audio files in a range of formats including MP3 and WAV. Whichever route you choose, you can adjust the speech, pitch and volume of playback to create a custom voice. In terms of output, you can use SAPI 4 complete with eight different voices to choose from, SAPI 5 with two, or the Microsoft Speech Platform. There are a couple of ways to use Balabolka's free text-to-speech software: you can either copy and paste text into the program, or you can open a number of supported file formats (including DOC, PDF, and HTML) in the program directly.


+Excellent file format support +Lots of voices to choose from +Can create audio files +Bookmarking tools
