Category: Text to Speech
Text to speech involves computer generated speech – the computer reading to you. This category is used for all text to speech applications except VoiceOver – which has its own category.
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Proloquo2Go Is A Go!
Proloquq2Go, the groundbreaking Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) program for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch is now available at the iTunes App store.
Safari Commands Cheat Sheet for MacSpeech Dictate 1.3
MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. Here’s a quick document to help you learn and remember the important commands for controlling Safari with MacSpeech Dictate version 1.2.1.
Talking iPod Shuffle
There’s a new iPod Shuffle, and like the newest iPod Nano it can read out things like song titles and playlist names. Unlike the iPod Nano, the VoiceOver feature is enabled by default and is part of their standard advertising.
Mail.app Commands Cheat Sheet for MacSpeech Dictate 1.2.1
MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. Here’s a quick document to help you learn and remember the important commands for controlling Mail.app with MacSpeech Dictate version 1.2.1.
Amazon Kindle 2 Includes Text to Speech Capability
Today Amazon introduced the Kindle 2, the newest incarnation of its ebook reading device. Included in this 2nd generation Kindle is built-in text to speech capability.
Voice4Me Basic AAC Program
Voice4Me is one of the free programs available at the SchoolFreeware website. It’s a very basic AAC program for users who have trouble speaking – users can click on a picture to speak the associated text, or type text into a box and then click on the ‘speak’ button.
Bookshare Gets A Makeover
Bookshare, the free service that offers US residents with qualifying disabilities access to more than 42,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools has gotten a makeover.
Changing Narrators With Ghostreader or Infovox iVox Voices
Did you know that you can change narrators automatically when you’re using GhostReader? It’s an undocumented feature, and only works with the voices from Infovox iVox or ConvenienceWare, but I’ve confirmed that it does work.
Olearia DAISY book reader for Leopard
Yesterday marked the first public release of Olearia – a free and open source DAISY digital talking book player for Mac OS X. Olearia is still in beta release, but is fully compatible with VoiceOver and plays DAISY 2.02 and DAISY/NISO 2005 audio or text+audio talking books. Future versions will also play text-only DAISY books and many other features are planned.
Context Sensing & Assistive Technology Study – Chicago
The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology at Northwestern University is working on a project to build and evaluate new original technologies for users with disabilities. They are currently recruiting subjects with a variety of impairments (cognitive, sensory or motor) from the Chicago area.
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