Many thanks for all the feedback. I'm dealing with a visually-impaired
student who needs screen magnification and text-to-speech including
homophone checking. Providing TextHelp just to do the last bit seemed a
little sledgehammer vs chestnut so I'm looking at cheaper options. Someone
mentioned Kursweil 3000 as possible a do-it-all solution, though I haven't
had a chance to check that yet..
I spoke to a nice person at CALL about Wordtalk the other day - was that you
Paul N? If so thanks for your help
MikeP
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Subject: Re: Anyone tried 'Wordtalk'?
I recommend it to students who cannot easily get to University to use our
text to speech systems here. This means that students can then scan in
their work (using the University scanners and OCR) when they are at
University and then listen to text the text at home. I also suggest
combining this with the www.pdftoword.com so that students can listen back
to their journal articles.
Alastair Veal
Assistive Technology
Brunel University
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WordTalk doesn't have homophone checking - it has a talking spellchecker and
thesaurus. Seems to be stable unless you try it with Word 2003 on Vista when
we've heard of problems.
It gets downloaded from our site about 900 times a month so seems to be
working.
Paul
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Subject: Anyone tried 'Wordtalk'?
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Quick-Guide/
It's freeware and it seems to do most of the things that Texthelp does.
Can't see any mention of homophone checking however...
The other thing I suppose is - how stable is it?
Mikep
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