Peter said:
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
Ellen:
Then Kolan is probably your best bet, and your student has to decide
whether in a text reader or screen reader interface.
Kolan is produced by Melingo, and, as I mentioned is used in most
hardware and software packages that read text now.
There are currently a few choices:
If the text that the student wants is on the web, there might be a
chance that it is on the Snunit site--Snunit has Kolan right on some of
its sites now, so it is worth checking.
Screen reader software is available through Kibbutz Gash, called Virgo,
a German product. However, many of my students and others have problems
with this software.
New interfaces are coming on the market now for simpler text readers for
LD and VI usually Kolan as the TTS engine. They are produced by Melingo
and Gash, and perhaps others.
And Gash is also working with the Almog line, which scans and reads
text; our model can also save to floppy.
I have these contacts posted on some of my AT pages--feel free to take a
look:
http://www.enabling.org/ellen/ATresources.html
http://www.enabling.org/ellen/introAT.html
E.H.Serfaty
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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> Hi
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> 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
>
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