Malmö Academy of Music

Read with your ears! Everyone can get free access to the text-to-speech synthesizer TorTalk
TorTalk is a text-to-speech program, which works on both PC and Mac, and also on tablets using Windows.

With TorTalk you can:

Listen to digital text in various formats (word, pdf, html, text...)
Listen to all e-books and articles in full text
Determine the reading speed yourself
Choose from 20 languages ​​and 60 voices

If you have a reading disability, you have the right to have the course literature adapted. It is most common that you receive it as a talking book.

Download talking books in Legimus (in Swedish)
The Authority for Accessible Media (MTM, formerly TPB) has over 100,000 talking books in its catalogue, Legimus.

• There are both whole books and compendium material. At your library, you can get a password to be able to download talking books.
• Download when you want and where you want.
• You can listen on your computer or mobile.
• You can get help and support from your library.

For more information on Talking books click here.

Borrow printed course literature
You have the right to an extended loan period for the course literature. The loan period will automatically be four weeks, including reloans. Contact a librarian if you want an extended loan period.

Order new readings of course literature

•  Your library can order a reading done by MTM or at Lund University.
• In order to have literature loaded, you must have an account for your downloads. This is arranged by the library.
• It takes about 8 weeks to load a book. Therefore, you must contact your library as soon as you know the literature for the next course. Always take the course bibliography with you.

• Download Easyreader

To be able to read talking books on the computer, you need a reading program. EasyReader is a reading program for PC and MAC. Lund University has a campus license for EasyReader. You can download the program and install it on your own computer. EasyReader is installed on student computers around the university as well as on library user computers.

EasyReader contains a built-in speech synthesis. You can read texts in Word and .txt format. If you have pdf files you want to listen to, you can resave them in the appropriate format.