 Have you ever thought about alternatives to text that can allow you listen to content without having to read every single word? Do you know you can convert your text files into audio files that you can listen to on the go? Absolutely With some text to speech software You can convert your text to audio and save them as sound files like mp3 or any other sound format By opening your access text in an alternative audio format This capability can enhance your reading experience Not only that it's also highly beneficial for multitasking This means you can listen to your class readings or notes while taking a walk Running or doing your daily commute You can prefer that paper you wrote or review study material and perform in your activity of your choice at the same time The public computers and out-and-library have software that can serve these purpose like because while 3000 and text self-written write gold Alternatively, there are several online software that support this text to audio file conversion future Some of this software available for free and some require subscription In this video, we'll be taking a look at a few online software you can try out Let's start with natural reader Natural reader offers basic text to speech functionality for free, but you need a subscription for conversion to audio files Both windows and mac versions of the software are available for download It allows you to copy and paste the text you want to convert Or input file formats like word or pdf and lets you save converted sound files Next is ghost reader This software works with mac operating systems and requires a subscription But there's a free trial version available for download It can generate audio from file formats like word pdf or html and support several languages apart from english Another really good software to try is balaboka This software is free and available for download on windows operating systems It works with several document file formats Can save audio to different sound file formats and support several other languages besides english You can also try out panoprater Panoprater works with several document file formats, but can only convert text to wav audio format It supports english spanish and portuguese Text to speech is a free web based text to audio converter that is pretty easy to use There's no need to download software Just paste the text into the conversion box And download the audio conversion as an mp3 or wav file Read the word is also like text to speech It's web based and the audio converter requires a subscription to use You can paste your text into the conversion box Upload a document file from your computer Or paste a link to a web page And download the audio conversion as an mp3 file It supports english, french and spanish These are only a few of the software available out there Feel free to try them out or find others and see what works best for you Thanks for watching