You can invoke Siri on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer to read almost any text that's on the screen aloud.

You can get Windows to read text to you aloud using an accessibility tool called Narrator, which you can access from the Start menu.

Once upon a time, if you saw someone walking toward you talking out loud, you might have thought they were trying to talk to you, which might have taken a little bit of awkward back-and-forth to ...