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Fire Vox: A Screen Reading Extension for Firefox
http://firevox.clcworld.net/ Fire Vox: A Screen Reading Extension for Firefox Fire Vox is an open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox. In addition to the basic features that are expected of screen readers, such as being able to identify headings, links, images, etc. and providing navigational assistance, Fire Vox provides support for MathML and CSS speech module properties. It also works on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. |
 
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Sakrament LibReader
http://www.unesco.ru/eng/articles/2004/polina14032007135445 Sakrament company with the support of UNESCO Moscow office developed a software Sakrament LibReader to convert text to speech in educational and art texts in Belarusian, Russian and English languages. The system is to be installed on PCs to assist pupils with sight problems. Main feature of the system is the possibility to use it by blind pupils. The software provides a possibility to select any text and pronounce it by appropriate synthesis voice. Using Sakrament LibReader it is possible to convert text to speech on PC using unique speech synthesis system Sakrament TTS (text-to-speech) Engine 3.0 which includes two Russian voices, two English voices and one Belarusian voice. Software package Sakrament LibReader will support text formats RTF and TXT. |
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ReadSpeaker
http://www.readspeaker.com/ ReadSpeaker ReadSpeaker is a server-based product that speech-enables your website for the benefit of people who would like to listen as well as read. With no downloads it is available to all. The product is easy to implement and already used widely in the public sector. free trial The Mission of ReadSpeaker is to make the "miracle of the Internet" accessible for dyslexics, people with learning disabilities, low literacy level, people with English as a second language, elderly with impaired vision and others that like to listen as well as read. |
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WordTalk
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/ WordTalk WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with Microsoft Word 97 and upwards, which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary to help decide which word spelling is most appropriate. It sits neatly in your toolbar and is highly configurable, allowing you to adjust the highlight colours, the voice and the speed of the speech. For people with reading and writing difficulties, having text reinforced by hearing it read aloud can be very useful. |
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How to use the Text to Speech Feature
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164302297 You Talk - the Computer Types: How to use the Text to Speech Feature in Windows 2002 & 2003 Speech to text technology has been around for a number of years, but the technology was not advanced enough for most computer users to want to use it or try to use it. I am happy to say that is not the case anymore. Microsoft has perfected the technology to the point where the average computer user, with a little help, can now talk and watch the computer type. |
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Creating a Talking Book
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/ilife/examples/literacy.html Creating a Talking Book Summary: Pupils create a narrated story project with their own drawn pictures and a downloaded audio book. Objectives: To help pupils understand an audio book and allow their imagination to create visual images from the story. This was a group of Year 4 pupils but the idea could be adapted for younger pupils by giving them the images to sequence in the right order. While older pupils could write and perform their own audio content. Resources: A digital camera or scanner, iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie HD, Internet access. |
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Fonix iSpeak
http://www.fog-ware.com/products/ispeak.htm Fonix iSpeak Fonix iSpeak offers an unparalleled selection of the speech industry? leading voice technologies. Included in Fonix iSpeak are four award-winning voice families: Fonix SimplySpeaking, Fonix DECtalk, AT&T Natural Voices, and Lucent?Articulator. |
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VoiceMX Studio : Shareware Software
http://www.tanseon.com/products.htm VoiceMX STUDIO 4 is an advanced Text to Voice software that converts all types of Text to Voice via speech synthesis using a high quality speech engine. It can be used to text notes, documents, e-mails, e-books, web pages etc. It can convert all types of text that is typed or pasted into its input interface into high quality realistic speech output. It can also record the voice output to disk as a .wav file. Shareware software to download |
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Festival Speech Tools
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Free (for personal use), powerful and flexible speech synthesis toolkit for *nix based computers. Can be used for text-to-speech and much, much more. |
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PhoneAnything
http://www.phoneanything.com PhoneAnything provides voice access to internet content through any telephone. The PhoneAnything Voice Portal offers phone access to standard internet pages, WAP pages, streaming audio and e-mail. PhoneAnything's technology provides a unique method of delivering information to visually-impaired users and to individuals who lack conventional internet access. |
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Readspeaker
http://www.phoneticom.com/rs/en/index.html Readspeaker makes websites talk. It is easy to use and easy to implement. No backend reprogramming required and no plugins or software needed for the visitor. We host everything and deliver high quality speech 365 days a year 24 hours a day. What you see is what is said. Readspeaker can read most file formats including Word, RTF and PDF. It works on any browser with connection speeds of 33.6k and up. Readspeaker can be operational on your site within days. |
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Browsealoud ...speech enabled web sites
http://www.browsealoud.com/ Browsealoud ...speech enabled web sites Browsealoud is a subscription-based solution to speech enable website content. Browsealoud uses accessibility techniques to access and speak text from web sites. It is unique in its delivery concept. There is no requirement for any additional software installation on your website. |
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Kurzweil Educational Systems
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/ While Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. was founded in 1996, the roots of the company extend back to 1976 and the introduction of the world's first reading system, the Kurzweil Reading Machine. Today, the company is recognized as the leading developer of reading technology for people with learning difficulties and those who are blind or visually impaired. Kurzweil Educational currently offers Kurzweil 1000, Kurzweil 3000 for Windows and Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh. All products incorporate the most clear, human-like synthesized voices available coupled with a robust set of easy-to-use features for accessing, reading, managing and creating text and images. |
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Get the latest Microsoft Reader software, add-ins, and tools.
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/default.asp Microsoft Reader for Desktop and Laptop PC Download Microsoft Reader (ebooks) ?FREE ?today, with support for premium eBook content on Windows-based PCs, laptops, and Pocket PC 2002 devices! Text-to-Speech Component Read about the speech component for Microsoft Reader. See how voicing technology makes eBooks more accessible. |
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Webwide - The first genuine symbol web browser
http://www.widgit.com/products/webwise/browser.htm Webwide takes a normal web page and can display it in different ways - simplified text (including setting your own style, size etc.) or using symbols, as well as speaking the text sentence by sentence highlighting the currently spoken word (which is more that Texthelp's Browsealoud). Links can also be spoken before they are selected. |
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Emacspeak --The Complete Audio Desktop
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ EmacSpeak, Inc. Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Available free of cost on the Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Internet. Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) announces immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak 19.0 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving semantic WWW. Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. |
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Linux Screen Readers : BLINUX
http://leb.net/blinux/ Linux Screen Readers Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows blind and visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Available free of cost on the Internet, Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Internet. |
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Artic Technologies International
http://www.artictech.com/ Artic Technologies International Talking notetakers, screen access, screen enlargement, turn-key computer systems, speech synthesizers and other products for low vision and blind individuals. |
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GW Micro, Inc.
http://www.gwmicro.com/ GW Micro, Inc. - Computer hardware and software for persons who are blind, visually impaired or have learning disabilities. |
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HumanWare, Inc.
http://www.humanware.com/ HumanWare's slogan, "...the link between technology and people," describes the philosophy and mission of HumanWare, Inc. HumanWare identifies, evaluates, and provides for the needs of people who are blind, visually impaired, or learning disabled. Innovative technology enables HumanWare's customers to perform at the best of their abilities in education, work, and home environments. Products include talking laptop computers, refreshable Braille terminals, and video magnification system. |
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ALVA Access Group, Inc
http://www.aagi.com/ ALVA Access Group, Inc Braille displays & text to speech screen reading software. |
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euroBRAILLE
http://www.eurobraille.fr/ DRACULAwin and DRACULAvox original Braille and voice synthesis screen reader for different versions of Windows. A family of Braille equipment from 20 to 84 characters. |
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Dolphin Computer Access
http://www.dolphinusa.com/ Dolphin Computer Access -Integrated solutions for visually impaired computer users in magnification, speech & Braille. |
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JAWS for Windows
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp The most popular screen reader worldwide, JAWS for Windows works with your PC to provide access to today? software applications and the Internet. With its internal software speech synthesizer and the computer? sound card, information from the screen is read aloud, providing technology to access a wide variety of information, education and job related applications. JAWS also outputs to refreshable Braille displays, providing unmatched Braille support of any screen reader on the market. A training tutorial is included. |
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Alive Text to Speech
http://www.alivemedia.net/ Alive Text to Speech - Text to Speech Reader and Text to Voice files Converter, it can read Text in any application, and convert Text to MP3, WAV, OGG or VOX files! |
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Talking Technologies
http://www.talking.co.uk/ If you found this page as part of an internet search about speech input, voice recognition, voice to text, voice activation, voice command and control, dictation, screen readers, headsets, transcription, or training, it's probably what you want. Speech-To-Text, or speech recognition, is the software process that converts speech to text. Although voice recognition, or VR, is often perceived as being the same thing, true voice recognition uses pattern-matching to identify you. Text-To-Speech, or speech synthesis, is the software process that converts text to speech. Although voice synthesis is often perceived as being the same thing, true voice synthesis uses a mathematical model to generate an artificial voice. Generally, text-to-speech systems connect digitised fragments of human speech in real time. The final quality depends on the prosody rules |
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Penfriend
http://www.penfriend.ltd.uk/ For people with dyslexia and physical disabilities, including children and adults with limited literacy. Supportive writing software featuring word prediction (predictive typing), On-screen keyboards, screen-reader speech feedback, and more. |
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Texthelp
http://www.texthelp.com/default.asp Texthelp Systems Ltd. has developed software products which fall into many classes....accessibility software, dyslexia sofware, text to speech software, to name just three. Browsealoud is a website speech enabling service which makes web content accessible to anyone with reading difficulties. |
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Natural Voice Reader With Text Pad
http://www.naturalreaders.com/standard_version.htm Natural Voice Reader With Text Pad Free standard version The main difference between the standard version and profession version is that Professional version supports natural voice, but standard version doesn't support. However, you can use it to read emails, text documentations and internet news using Microsoft Voices. |
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Text-to-speech of Vietnam
http://www34.brinkster.com/t2svn Text-to-speech of Vietnam |
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How to create Talking Books
http://www.ace-centre.org.uk/html/publications/publicat.html Richard Walters' in-depth guides to making your own talking books, written especially for those with no experience of multimedia creation. The guides cover the construction of books in Microsoft's popular Powerpoint presentation software, Crick Software's Clicker, and TAG Software's HyperStudio. Download the PowerPoint guide | Download the Clicker guide | Download the HyperStudio guide | |
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Adobe® Acrobat® eBook Reader™
http://www.adobe.com/products/ebookreader/pdfs/acrebookreader22.pdf The best way to read secure, digital content The Adobe® Acrobat® eBook Reader™ 2.2 software provides a reading experience that mirrors that of the printed book, with interactive features including Adobe CoolType™ for optimized font display, connectivity to the Web, an interactive dictionary and permissions that enable the audio, printing, lending or giving of an eBook. Hear an eBook—With a unique text-to-speech feature, the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader 2.2 allows users to double-click on any word to hear its pronunciation. Also, when enabled by the publisher, consumers can listen to the entire text of an eBook—ideal for children.2 ebook | e-book | reader | text to speech | |
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Read Please
http://www.readplease.com/ The world's most popular text-to-speech software - and still free ReadPlease shatters the myth that computers must sound robotic and monotonous. Just imagine having web pages and e-mail read aloud to you. If you are finding there is just too much on-screen reading with all of this technology, then you will love using ReadPlease. screen | reader | text | speech | SEN | |
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