[Athen] Free Screen Readers

[E.A. Draffan]

EmpTech has a list of free screen readers and text to speech programs but
they are under separate categories under the heading of Reading - If you
go to http://www.emptech.info/categories_list.php?M=1  there is a short
list.   Hope this helps.

Best wishes E.A.


Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab,
ECS, University of Southampton,
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://www.lexdis.org
http://www.emptech.info



> Hi Milt,

>

> Sorry that I don't have time to comment on more than one but, I do use and

> like Natural Reader and like it for several reasons:

> 1- with the full screen, the sentences being read are highlighted with

> each

> word ividivually highlight to help the reader track

> 2- you can minimze (make a small radio front that sits on your desktop,

> when

> you open a doc or website, you can highlight the target text and push the

> play button on the little radio pane and the text is read aloud.

> 3.  Brain freeze on the voice options but, needles to say, the free voices

> are okay but better if you purchase the upgrade.

>   I recently purchased a system with Window 7 and haven't played with it

> on

> this OS, yet. <smile>

>

> brief but it's a start -Nettie

>

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Milt Johnson <

> milt.johnson at aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote:

>

>> Does anyone have (1) a list of the free screen readers available and (2)

>> any experience with the free screen readers that would be willing to

>> share

>> the benefits and cautions of them?

>>

>>

>>

>> Milt Johnson

>>

>> Utah State University

>>

>> Assistive Technology Learning Center (ATLC)

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