Text to Speech Software and Accessibility for Academics

There will be 3 types of software/ products discussed here.
1. Text to speech engines, platforms, and programs that actually do the reading of text out loud to you.
2. The voice downloads, packages, programs, and add-ons that improve base text-to-speech programs that typically come with the most basic "Voice" (often Microsoft Sam or David).
3. Optical character recognition (OCR) programs that turn pictures of text into readable documents. Many, but not all, pdf's and other files are technically just "pictures" of words. Sometimes they also have Digital rights management (DRM) or copyright blocks on the text so it is not readable and cannot have its text ripped easily. 

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