Text-to-speech is commonly used as an accessibility feature to help people who have trouble reading on-screen text.

You can easily get your Mac to read text aloud to you by enabling the feature in your computer's settings.

Google Lens can now read other languages out loud, and scan text to your computer An update adds scanning, translation and search perks to your phone camera on iOS and Android.

Reading is great, but sometimes you want or need to listen. Let your computer or phone read aloud to you with the best text-to-speech software for accessibility, enjoyment, and productivity.

You can also have Lens read highlighted text now. Just look for the "Listen" button when you've highlighted text. Lastly, Google has expanded Lens' ability to pull up search results.