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Guides for playing by ear.

Game text to speech, small-text fixes and accessibility tips for PC games, from the people who make Corvo Reader.

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October 28, 20268 min read

How to Turn On Text to Speech in RPGs

Where to find text to speech in an RPG's settings, which RPGs have it built in, the mods for Pathfinder, Pillars and CK3, and how to add it to the rest.

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October 4, 20267 min read

Which PC Games Have Text to Speech Built In (and How to Add It to the Rest)

Text to speech in games is growing: Stellaris, Civilization VII, Pentiment and Forza Motorsport have it built in. What each one reads, and how to add it to the rest.

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October 4, 20266 min read

How to Narrate Tooltips in Games: CK3, EU5, BG3, Stellaris

A step-by-step guide to narrate tooltips in games: hear CK3, EU5, BG3 and Stellaris tooltips read aloud, nested tooltips included, with one hotkey and no mods.

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October 4, 20267 min read

Screen Reader for Games: What Works on Windows (and What Doesn't)

A screen reader for games on Windows: what Narrator, NVDA, built-in game narration, accessibility mods and OCR readers like Corvo Reader can and can't do, and who each is for.

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October 4, 20266 min read

AI Game Text to Speech vs Windows Voices vs Mods

AI game text to speech, Windows voices and mods compared: where each voice comes from, how the text reaches it, what each costs, and which to pick for your games.

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October 4, 20267 min read

Game Accessibility on Windows: A Checklist for Text-Heavy Games

A practical game accessibility checklist for Windows: UI scale, fonts, borderless mode, Magnifier, colour filters, captions and text to speech for text-heavy games.

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April 6, 20263 min read

Game Text Too Small? Here Is How to Hear It Read Aloud

Small game text is one of the most common accessibility complaints in PC gaming. Here is how to fix it by having any game text read aloud without mods.

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April 6, 20264 min read

Game Text to Speech - How to Add It to Any PC Game on Windows

Most PC games have no built-in way to read text aloud. Here is how to add game text to speech to any PC game on Windows without mods or technical setup.

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April 6, 20264 min read

The Best Game Text to Speech Tools for PC in 2026

A comparison of every tool available for reading game text aloud on PC in 2026 - from Windows Narrator to game mods to dedicated overlay apps.

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April 6, 20263 min read

Text to Speech for Baldur's Gate 3 - Read Any Game Text Aloud

BG3 voices its dialogue, but tooltips, item descriptions, books and the journal go unread, and there is no built-in text to speech on PC. Here is how to add it.

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March 30, 20266 min read

Is There an App That Reads Game Text Aloud? (Yes, and it works)

Speechify and Windows Narrator fall apart in games. Here is what actually works for reading any PC game text aloud in a natural voice, with no mods.

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