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Tortalk – text to speech

All students and employees at KTH have access to Tortalk text to speech. Tortalk is installed in all student computer labs. You can download it to your private computer or smartphone from KTH Software Download.

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Read with your ears – Tortalk

There is a lot of material available through the library that can be useful for students, for example a large amount of articles and e-books from our databases. They can be read out to you by a speech synthesizer, Tortalk. To read articles protected from copying, use the ocr-button in Tortalk. It opens a window that can convert all text within the window frame into speech. Works with text formats (copy protected PDF files and e-books can be read). All students and employees at KTH have access to Tortalk text to speech. Tortalk is installed in all student computer labs. You can download it to your private computer or smartphone from KTH Software Download, TorTalk .

If you have a Mac computer and want to add more voices and/or languages, you need to visit the Tortalk website.

Tortalk's website

Introduction to Tortalk

This introduction video will help you get started with Tortalk.