Saturday, March 22, 2008

ReadTheWords.com - Text-To-Speech


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...


...and have remained so until this day."---Agatha Christie










Play online games based on Agatha Christie novels at Casual Game Guides:


And Then There Were None

Death on the Nile

Peril at End House








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