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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Jun 18, 2013 1:59PM

BrowseAloud (http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id€094) and ReadSpeaker (http://www.readspeaker.com/) are the two that have been around for some time. In addition, I just saw a demonstration yesterday of a new one, still in development, from AI Squared:

We have a new product that we felt that you may have an interest in seeing.

sitecues<https://www.sitecues.com/media/Executive_Summary.pdf>(tm) is an integrated web solution that can help you reach more users so they can see and also hear your site with ease. This turnkey assistive technology solution will make your site accessible for every type of individual including those who do not have Assistive Technology on their computers. It's a great tool for people with learning disabilities, visual difficulties, English as a second language, senior, boomers, etc.

Link goes to: https://www.sitecues.com/media/Executive_Summary.pdf

For those computer users who aren't going to learn yet another assistive technology or, even, identify has 'disabled' or as needing assistive technology, this (or other others of this genre) might well be useful -

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From: Dave Merrill [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:29 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web based screen readers

Thanks for the pointer to Cepstral, but far as I can see, they don't provide a way for a web site to offer to read pages aloud. Visitors have to purchase and install their voices.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:13 PM, McMorland, Gabriel < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

> This company is developing a variety of text to speech technologies.
> www.cepstral.com/<;http://www.cepstral.com/>;
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> Don't know. I wasn't aware that there was anything a site could do
> short of providing actual recordings that would provide this
> functionality, so when it was mentioned I wondered how it was done.
> (I'm a web programmer interested in accessibilty, but not really an
> expert on it.)
>
> It does look like BrowseAloud can do something like this. Are there
> other similar solutions?
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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:
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> > >Can someone tell ignorant me how this is typically implemented? Do
> > >they
> > have
> > >one or more recordings of the part and/or its sections pre-done? Or
> > >are
> > they
> > >suing some sort of server-side text-to-speech technology?
> > >
> > >
> > Are you referring to products like BrowseAloud?
> > http://www.browsealoud.com/page.asp?pg_id€094
> > I think there are others on the market like this too.
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