Accessibility Options Text to Speech

By: Lance Winslow
Submitted: 2007-01-17 15:53:49
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Perhaps you are unaware that there are free downloads on the Internet, which will enable you to have text to speech capabilities. This will allow you to have your computer read a web page or an article online to you. All you have to do is highlight the area you wish to read and press; Read It to Me.

In fact, I did notice the other day on the Microsoft Site, that there were FREE DOWNLOADS that allow Webpages, Documents, eMails to read themselves to you. I downloaded one of them for time saving factor, but I thought to myself what an awesome tool for some who was blind. It is a cool program, You can go to a web page pick from about 8 different voices and turn it on and it reads to you.

Then you can click onto another program and it just keeps going until you turn it off. Kind of like Internet Radio Stations, this will certainly help connect the unconnected and able people who are sight challenged to see more of what the Internet has to offer in the way of information. It is just super to see all the accessibility options out there to help those who have other challenges to stay in touch with all of us. Whether you are sight challenged or not; text to speech technologies makes sense and save time. Please consider all this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

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