Richard Byrne shares two speech to text tools and three text to speech tools that are browser based in this post.
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Natural Reader is a fantastic reader for digital text, and to my surprise I have not posted about this tool. This article, from Free Resources from the Net for Every Learner provides access to a video that demonstrates the free version. This tool works on Mac and PC, and this version provides a floating tool bar, that allows you to read text on a website. This is a tool that I would recommend to every student (and to have installed on all computers in a school). 
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Check out this selection of 10 free text to speech tools. All the tools are free, and some are browser specific. One that is not mentioned that you may also want to check out Natural Reader at
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Speak Selection has been an accessibility feature since iOS 5. With the release of iOS 6 you may choose to have each word highlighted as it is spoken. For more information click through to this article for screen shots of what you need to do.
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"WordTalk is a powerful free tool that ought to be on every computer in every school where Microsoft Word is installed on a Windows computer! This is a tool that has the potential to benefit ALL learners, especially any who struggle with reading or writing..."
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If you are using Chrome and looking for a speech to text app Bryne suggests that you check out the Dictanote Speech Recognizer app, a free app and also Dictation.io.
For text to speech he suggests three app.
Speak It is for use with Chrome and will read most web pages. Announcify works with Chrome and also comes for the Android. Select and Speak work with Chrome and will read any text on a web page. Bryne explains each of the tools in his post.
If you have students whom struggle with reading text to speech tools provide a way for them to work more independently online. For students whom may struggle with the writing process but whom speak cleary a speech to text tool may make an enormous difference in their ability to keep up with work.