Famous Persons with Learning Disabilities Quote
"I, myself, was always recognized... as the "slow one" in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was an extraordinarily bad speller."
See the reveal of the above quote at the end of this blog entry.
ReadTheWords.com
I am always on the lookout for good online Text to Speech Technology (TTS) to assist students with reading disabilities. I located ReadTheWords.com while searching on Go2Web20Web 20.net(a great directory for interactive websites). ReadtheWords.com is a free, web-based service that allows users to generate an audio file from almost any written material. The service offers many options to input text to be read including:
- Upload MS Word
- Upload Adobe PDF
- Upload HTML File
- Write Text Content
- Cut and Paste Text
- Input Website Address
- Input RSS Feeds URL
Listening options include:
- Listen to your reading online
- Download to ipod or other mp3 player
- Broadcast as a podcast
- Post on a website or blog
The program offers 15 voices to sample and select before creating the reading. The site boasts that their readers can generate 1 hours worth of reading in less than 1 minute. There is also an option where you can receive the reading via email. You can set up a free account in less than a minute with the promise that your registration information will not be shared.
Famous Person with Learning Disabilities Revealed:
"I, myself, was always recognized... as the "slow one" in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was an extraordinarily bad speller...
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