Matt

 

Texthelp is probably one of the TTS resources best known to colleges in this neck of the woods Matt.

 

You could try Claro Read,   a commercial resource.  I’m sure you could get your hands on a trial or demo version to try it out with your student.

http://www.bdastore.org.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=185

 

Other free options include:

SpokenText which is free and audio formats can be created from MS Word, PDF, RSS feeds, email and WWW.  For 25 Canadian Dollars you can buy a license for SpokenText Plus which has more features.

http://www.spokentext.net/

 

I’ve attached a handout which my colleague Craig Mill compiled which highlights other free text to speech online resources.

 

 

 

Hi all,

Apologies for cross-posting.

 

I am looking to buy some text-to-speech software and wonder if anyone has any experiences, positive or negative, that they would like to share.  Out and out recommendations are also welcome.  Also, if anyone is aware of any packages that would work on the learner’s iPAQ too then even better, but this isn’t essential.

 

At present we have looked at DSpeech (which worked fine for reading text back, but the learner was not keen on the voices) and I am currently considering Read and Write Gold and GhostReader.

 

Many thanks,

 

Matt

 

Matt Harrison

Research and Technology Development Manager

Portland College

Nottingham Road

Mansfield

Notts, NG18 4TJ, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1623 499111 Ext. 118

Skype: molineux.blue

 

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