[Athen] Mac Text to speech Software

[Berger, Eileen]

My mac students LOVE ghostreader!
Eileen Berger

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Dell
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:43 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Mac Text to speech Software

The TTS option for Mac works well.  I believe that as long as you can highlight text it will read it.
http://www.csuohio.edu/offices/disability/alttext/programs/vo.html
The Speech settings can also be set under the Speech option in System preferences.
I've also heard that Ghost Reader is a good cheap program.
Jeff

On 6/12/12, Nies, Gerry <gerry.nies at email.und.edu> wrote:

> I am not a Mac user but trying to learn.

>

> I have a student with a Mac who needs text to speech for his text 

> books. He uses OpenOffice for word processing and from what I can 

> determine Voiceover does not work with OpenOffice. Nor does Mac version of Read&Write.

>

> Is there any no/low cost software out there?

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks

> Gerry Nies

> University of North Dakota

>

>

>

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