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From: LSnider
Date: Sat, Apr 02 2011 11:27AM
Subject: Re: BrowseAloud-Thanks
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I won't clog the list anymore :) Thanks to everyone for a great discussion
on this one, appreciate it!
Cheers
Lisa
From: LSnider
Date: Sat, Apr 02 2011 11:33AM
Subject: Re: BrowseAloud
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Hi John and Patrick,
That is very interesting information, thanks for sharing it.
Cheers
Lisa
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:35 AM, John E Brandt < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Patrick's response below mirror my sentiments exactly. The BA people were
> here in Maine a few years ago lobbying hard for the State Gov IT Dept to put
> it on all their websites. I was not impressed.
>
> John E. Brandt
>
>
From: E.A. Draffan
Date: Sat, Apr 02 2011 11:48AM
Subject: Re: BrowseAloud
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I am coming in late to this discussion but we have made a cross browser toolbar that offers very basic TTS (Festival Scottish voice at the moment) for those with dyslexia (LD and other difficulties). It has several supporting features including the chance to change the size of text, colours, text type, spell check, dictionary etc. It does not have high quality voices or text highlighting as the voice reads aloud. However, it is free and open source - we want to develop it further but please feel free to try it. It is also linked to the Fix the Web service. http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ToolBar/download or http://www.fixtheweb.net/toolbar
There is also a Moodle version http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&;rid=2510
Best wishes E.A.
Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab,
ECS, University of Southampton,
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info