Text-to-Speech in Your Operating System

If you can highlight text, you can easily hear it read aloud with Speak Selection on Mac.

• Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen (Mac User Guide)

Accessibility Reader can read aloud text from other apps on your Mac. It can also help remove distractions and let you customize the font and background colors.

• Read or listen to text in apps with Accessibility Reader on Mac (Mac User Guide)

iPhones and iPads can read aloud selected text—or all the text on your screen.

• Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback (iPhone User Guide)
• Hear iPad speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback (iPad User Guide)

Accessibility Reader can read aloud text from other apps on your iPhone or iPad. It can also help remove distractions and let you customize the font and background colors.

• Read or listen to text in apps with Accessibility Reader on iPhone (iPhone User Guide)
• Read or listen to text in apps with Accessibility Reader on iPad (iPad User Guide)

Android devices can easily and quickly read aloud text on your screen using Select to Speak.

• Use Select to Speak (Google Support)

Windows doesn't include a lightweight text-to-speech feature in the same way as Mac or Android. However, Windows does come with a screen reader called Narrator, and you can use Morphic to easily read aloud selected text.