Read out Loud .PDF files with Adobe Reader

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You don’t need an Amazon Kindle 2 to have a mechanical box read documents out loud. Although its main function is to display PDF files, the free Adobe Reader software has a Read Aloud feature that can audibly recite the contents (in a decent, but not unmistakable computerized voice) of many PDF files.

To hear it for yourself, open a PDF file, go to the View menu and activate the feature from the Read Out Loud submenu; controls for how much to read and when to stop are here, too. While copy-protected e-books may not be compatible with Read Out Loud, it’s fine for works in the public domain, like books in PDF form from Project Gutenberg, academic papers and other PDF files.

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