Hi
Sorry - I'm guilty of parochialism, forgetting that the list has an
international membership.
The student is studying for a Law degree at a UK University. The student
will need to read text from the Internet as well as scanned documents.
Regards
Peter
Ellen Hoffenberg-Serfaty wrote:
> I think you need to provide a bit more information, here:
> Is the student attending law school in Israel? If so, where is she
> located?
> Does she necessarily need a screen reader? Or might she not cope better
> using easier TTS software that reads Hebrew text?
> In any case, the best TTS at present is Kolan--Kolan is used in Israel's
> screen reader system--Virgo--as well as several text reading and
> enlargement software. Kolan has replaced an earlier TTS that performed
> pretty poorly.
> There is also a new scanning/ text reading system called Almog which is
> very easy to use; it also uses Kolan TTS.
>
> If the student is located in Israel, our Center or another group can
> probably introduce her to some of this AT. If outside of the country, I
> can point you to a few vendors.
>
> So if you can provide a bit more detail, perhaps I can help,
>
> Ellen Hoffenberg-Serfaty
> Tech Coordinator
> Pre-Academic Program, Learning Center for Blind and Dyslexic
> Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus
> Jerusalem
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Peter Hill
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:58 PM
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> Subject: Screen Reader for Hebrew texts
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> Hi
>
> I recently carried out a needs assessment for a dyslexic Israeli Law
> student who intends to use Hebrew Texts for some of her course tasks.
> She'd benefit from an OCR/screen reader setup that will handle both
> Hebrew and English.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Hill
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