Adobe - Acrobat - Reader - Read PDF Aloud

This theaideascompany.blotspot.com blog entry describes the Read Out Loud Text-to-Speech feature built in to Adobe's free Acrobat Reader program.

The Read Aloud feature converts text to spoken words.

You can choose to have one page read, or the whole document, and you can choose the reading order.

While a PDF is being read out loud, you can always pause or stop the reading.

Using Read Out Loud

To use the Read Out Loud function:

1. Navigate to the page that you want to read.
2. Do one of the following:
• Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read This Page Only.
• Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read To End Of Document.

To pause or stop the Read Out Loud function,
Do one of the following:

• Choose View > Read Out Loud > Pause.
• Choose View > Read Out Loud > Resume.
• Choose View > Read Out Loud > Stop.

See also:

• Checking document accessibility blog entry.
• Setting Reading preferences below.

Setting Reading preferences

Go to: Adobe - Accessibility - Overview.