Language Reader

With the help of Language Reader you can tell the computer to read aloud anything you write in a foreign language. This is a straightforward piece of kit that offers support for American and British English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Korean, and others.

After a fast installation procedure that shouldn't impose any difficulties, you are welcomed by a common-looking window with a well-structured layout, where you can get a glimpse of all options provided by the tool.

To get started, you can inspect a panel with available languages and rapidly download the ones you're interested in. Text can be written or pasted in a dedicated box and read aloud with one click.

Language Reader offers you a male and female voice, depending on what you're most comfortable with. You can adjust the speed and volume level, examine details surrounding the text (language, voice, speed, volume, total letters), customize font settings, as well as stop the text-to-speech tool before it reaches the end of the text. There are no other notable options available here.

We haven't come across any unpleasant surprises in our tests as far as stability is concerned, thanks to the fact that Language Reader didn't hang, crash or show error messages. It needed low CPU and RAM to work normally, so it didn't hamper system performance.

On the other hand, the app hasn't been updated for a pretty long time, and it may have compatibility issues with later Windows editions. Nevertheless, it serves its purpose and facilitates approachable options for reading text written in different languages.