What is it

Natural Reader is text-to-speech software. It can take webpages and documents and read them aloud for you. It has very good, natural sounding voices. 

Sign Up

You will need to send us an email to us to let us know you are interested. We will then reply by either sending you a sign up code or sending you an invite to be a part of our paid account. Please sign up using your Cornell email address. 

Getting Started

After you signed up for an account:

1. Log in to the site
   • If you will be using the mobile app, or Chrome extension, download those
   • You can also just use the web app
2. Select the voice you want it to use
   • Use one of the "Plus" voices
   • You may like using different voices for different files
3. You can upload documents or text for it to read aloud, or have it read a webpage
   • It works will all major document types (Word files, PDFs, PowerPoints, EPUBs, etc.).
   • You also can have it scan images of text to read aloud (including PDFs) by selecting "Scan to text" or "OCR"
4. Further customize your settings to your preferences (reading speed, etc.) 

Additional Features

• You can take photos of text to have Natural Reader speak them aloud. 
• You can download MP3s of documents spoken aloud in your selected voice(s).
• Natural Reader's voices support more than 90 languages. You are not limited to just English.
• It will highlight text being read, and you can customize highlighting, text, and background colors, along with text sizes.
• You can annotate and take notes in your files as they are being read.

Note: Our account allows unlimited use of most features, including the "Plus" voices. Currently, the "AI" premium voices are only available for individual user accounts, not for group accounts like ours. 

More Information

• Video Guide to Natural Reader (5 min)