Dianne that is an interesting post. It reminded me of the discovery made by my sister in-law. She has been studying to obtain her masters degree. She is doing this on-line.
My sister in-law uses a Mac. She was mucking about with her computer when she stumbled across Text Outloud. Because of the quality of the synthesizer she is finding working on her degree much easier now that she has the synthesized speech going along with her materials when she is reading or preparing assignments. This has reduced the amount of distress she was experiencing when doing her homework a great deal. My sister in-law is neither blind nor does she have a vision impairment. Well not that she admits to any way. GW Micro and HIM just might be ahead of the curve. With more eText readers out there it will be a matter of time before players like the Kindle, the device being used by Barnes and Noble, Sony, etc. will have text to speech capabilities for the books and menus. Vic If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
