Most people, especially editors,bloggers,researchers who are hooked to PC, read lot of articles,news items in the web media. Reading articles in news papers,books may not strain your eyes even if you read for a long time but reading the stuff online in the medias like computer,Laptop or Kindle ebook reader for a long time may affect your eyes.
To avoid stress on eyes while reading online,many of you may suggest to take a short break after every 30 minutes and stare at any object(may be greens better) for sometime or do some stretching exerciese or just go for walk.But most of us being lazy don't follow those suggestions and continue to read if the stuff is really interesting.
So what may be the best approach to de-stress your eyes? My suggestion is don't read the stuff but listen to it wherever feasible. I mean convert the text into speech and listen to it. You can carry converted audio books in your mobile or ipods and listen whenever you travel. Vozme and spokentext are the two web based text to speech converters. Both are completely free.
Vozme is a simple online ‘text to speech’ program that lets you type-in any English or Spanish or Italian text and then play it as an audio stream. The best thing is you can dowload and save the audio stream as standard MP3 files. You can store the audio files in your mobile or iPod to listen while travelling.
 And if you are running a blog or website,you can add Vozme to your website or blog and let your readers download/listen to posts as an audio stream. Moreover, no registration is required to avail this service. [via]
spokentext is also a web-based text to speech converter that can take almost any text document (PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint, RSS feeds, emails, web pages, etc.) and convert it to audio file. This file can be shared online with others and also downloaded as an iPod book or regular MP3 file. Here you need to register to record your text unlike Vozme . Check out more features here. 
How do you avoid stress on your eyes? let us know in the comments section.
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