Now, anyone can read aurally anywhere on any subject at any time with an iPad, laptop or iPod Touch. available at our finger tips from any location that has WiFi. Over the years the internet has grown into a massive generator of print content with web browsers, email, database services, newspaper articles, Wikipedia, e-books, etc. As a slow and inadequate reader, I could not visually read them while I was in the library and there was no way to read them aurally there. All that has changed. I used to go to the University of Tennessee library, copy research articles to a floppy disk, take them home, upload them to my Mac, and read them aurally with my screen reader. The only print I had to read with my screen reader was from documents that I had copied to my computer or documents that I had typed myself, and I was a slow typist. The internet was not developed and there was not a good way of getting print onto the computer for reading. At that time my main source of Reading by Listening material was audio (taped) books and magazines. With this gadget and software, I could aurally read any text on the computer quickly and easily, reading and rereading anywhere on the screen and reading as fast or slow as I wanted to. I got my first computer, a 'Toaster Mac' and screen reader, outSpoken, in 1989. 10/28/16 Text-To-Speech and Screen Readers Can Make All Our Devices Aural Reading (or Reading by Listening) Devices
