RayReader

RayReader is a tiny and portable application that acts like a text prompter. It lets you open a text document from the computer and view its lines just like checking out a photo gallery in a slideshow presentation. Several adjustment options are put at your disposal to take control over the autoplay speed and other aspects.

Since it's wrapped in a portable package, you can drop the app directory in any part of the disk and simply click the executable to launch RayReader. There is also the option to save it to a pen drive to be able to directly run it on any PC with minimum effort. It doesn't modify Windows registry settings.

At startup, you are greeted by a common-looking window with a black screen that tells you to open a text document to find out all commands. It's possible to open a text document from the disk using a file browser or load the Clipboard contents instead.

The presentation starts playing automatically. You can pause and resume playback, jump to a specific position within the slideshow, specify a new set of control parameters, advance to the next sentence, as well as increase or decrease the autoplay speed or sentence complexity threshold (i.e. show less or more words per sentence). The status bar reveals the current experience and position. There are no other notable options available here.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the utility didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. It used low CPU and RAM, so it didn't hog system resources. On the other hand, it comes loaded with limited features. Nevertheless, you can test it for yourself, since it's free.