Does your child or student benefit from using a talking word processor (speak and highlight text), talking spell check, and talking dictionary to help support their composition and self-editing? Wordtalk is a free tool that provide these support at home:
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/
For people with reading and writing difficulties, having text reinforced by hearing it read aloud can be very useful.
WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards). 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.
Sitting neatly in your toolbar it is highly configurable, allowing you to:
- Adjust the highlight colors
- Change the voice and the speed of the speech
- Convert text to speech and save as a .wav or .mp3 file so that it can be played back on an iPod or mp3 player.
WordTalk is a free text-to-speech plugin developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards). 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.
Sitting neatly in your toolbar it is highly configurable, allowing you to:
- Adjust the highlight colors
- Change the voice and the speed of the speech
- Convert text to speech and save as a .wav or .mp3 file so that it can be played back on an iPod or mp3 player.
Another free resource to make a word processor into a talking word processor is Natural Reader - see the HIAT Quick Guides and Videos on this topic.
What other free or low cost resources have you found to provide talking word processing at home?
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