Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. 

1. Using Natural Reader and
Photostory 3 to Improve Reading
By: A. Najib Tuanany

2. What is Natural Reader?
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It is a professional text to speech
program that converts any
written text into spoken words.
You can access it online on
https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/

3. How to use it?

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Select
+ Open Document

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Choose
the file
Click Open

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Ater finish
uploading,
click this

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You can
choose the
speaker
You can select
the speed

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Finally download
/record it manual

9. What is Photostory 3?
Microsoft's Photo Story is a free
Windows program that lets you
create audiovisual presentations
out of your photos and images.
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You can quickly crop, rotate, and
edit your pictures;
personalize them with captions and
titles;
and add sound effects, narration,
and background music.

10. How can it be used in
language learning?
Especially reading
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Teaching English is not
easy because it
requires motivation and
creativity in order to
make a good condition
and achievement of
English learning and
teaching goal.
when the students read
a text, they cannot
comprehend the text
because the text is very
long. For that reason,
the students need and
interesting techniques
to improve their reading
comprehension.
Students in junior high
school still find
difficulties in reading.
For example,

12. Some ideas for using Photo Story
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Create visual mini-lessons
Create fun ways to teach objectives
Create short story or novel synopses
Create a movie to introduce yourself to the class
Create a movie about describing thing or place

13. How to use it?

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Select begin a new
story

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Import pictures

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You can record your
narration
You can
change the
way the
pictures
transition

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You can select or
create music for
background

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Finally, export it as a
movie file

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An example of Descriptive Text Using audio from
Natural Reader and photostory 3

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Compared to
this text.
Which one is more interesting.
Reading this text or the photosory version?

21. Thanks!
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