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Re: PowerPoints and Text to Speech

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Oct 10, 2011 6:42AM

I have seen some other applications that are supposed to convert text to speech for the purpose of adapting the information for someone with a reading -related disability. However, they don't seem to have the same complexity of a screen reader when it comes to picking up information from an application. Of course, I think most of those type of applications start with the assumption that they do not need to have such semantically rich speech output so they rely on simpler mechanisms to acquire the text--mechanisms that do not always work in every situation.