Skype hired a town crier in colonial garb to read aloud tweets on the street.
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It was "completely out of character" for her mom, but Taylor asked her daughter to read aloud some of the bawdy jokes.
Ethel was tiny, had a flair for the dramatic, and every night required each of the boys to read aloud a chapter of the Bible.
James Wolfe either recited the poem or listened to it read aloud (accounts vary).
Every three years groups like the American Foundation for the Blind have to lobby Congress to protect an exception for the blind allowing for books to be read aloud.
There was also Kipling's comic verse, including an example written on a ship sailing from Adelaide to Ceylon, Sri Lanka, which is thought to have been read aloud by Kipling to those around him.
At Oxford Tolkien kept company with the Inklings a clutch of dons who gathered on Tuesday mornings at a pub to read their work aloud.
Friends posted replies that the site's app read aloud to Rucker through his headphones during workouts.
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to General George Washington's troops in New York.
As part of the CNN iReport cultural census, which examines some of the more intangible characteristics that define the American population, we asked people around the country to read a standard passage aloud so we could evaluate their regional accent.
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One even produced a copy of the children's book, "The Emperor's New Clothes", which he read aloud, to emphasise the deception and self-delusion at the company.
If you read this article aloud to yourself (first make sure nobody is watching), your speech will be forged in Broca's area (a specialised zone in the front-left part of your brain).
In the Senate the rules may appear to give him great power--Senators are required to sit completely mute and put in writing any question they have for witnesses so he can read it aloud--but in fact he has no power to decide anything.
These letters are delivered and sometimes, to the shame of their authors, also read aloud.
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Now, thanks to the Target ruling, CAPTCHAs must also offer an audio option--a distorted recording of letters and numbers read aloud that's often far easier for a computer to interpret than a distorted image.
Ida Lou assigned prose and poetry to her students, then had them read the work aloud.
But his co-defendants upstaged him, invoking their right to have the entire 87-page charging document read aloud.
"In that world I'm kidnapping women and selling them to people interested in buying them, " she read aloud from Valle's e-mail conversation.
To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans whose bodies had been identified by Thursday evening.
Plus, they often include text-to-speech technology that can read books or articles aloud -- maybe not with thrilling delivery, but still a useful option.
Fisher told me that her current boyfriend has read the complete works of Shakespeare aloud to her in bed, as well as some Dickens and Ibsen.
Bergdahl's parents, Bob and Janie, did not come to the vigil but a note from them was read aloud, explaining how overwhelmed they have been by their neighbors' support.
PC, for example, choosing to have your messages displayed on a small screen or read aloud by speech synthesiser.
Several co-contributors to Forbes are hearing from readers that their columns get read aloud at their own company meetings every Monday a.m.
Once VoiceOver is turned on in the settings of an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, the gestures to control Flipboard change and everything on a page is read out aloud.
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The names of the dead will be read aloud, and The Station Fire Memorial Foundation is to unveil its final plans to build a permanent memorial at the site.
And with Dragon TV's text-to-speech, television content and options on the screen can be read aloud.
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They told me the incredible story of how, without a single shot fired, 300 men were beaten to death with fists and clubs by their fellow soldiers, as their names were read aloud one at a time by the officer in charge.
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Finally, the results are kept secret until Oscar night, when all the nominees are invited to come and let us watch their faces as the ultimate victor's name is read aloud, live on worldwide television.
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