[Athen] [EXTERNAL] Re: TTS apps - your recommendations?

[Heidi Scher]

Hello all!

As usual, you have provided me with something new to look into! I hadn't
heard of Legere Reader before and didn't realize that Moon Reader Plus was
still a good alternative.

THANKS so much, one and all!

Heidi
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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director - AT
*she, her, hers*
Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas
1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 209
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104 phone
479.575.7445 fax
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 3:59 PM Stager, Catherine <
Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu> wrote:


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> *From:* Stager, Catherine

> *Sent:* Thursday, January 20, 2022 11:43 AM

> *To:* 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' <

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> *Subject:* RE: [Athen] [EXTERNAL] Re: TTS apps - your recommendations?

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> Depending upon what they are reading, we often recommend Voice Dream and

> iBooks on iOS. On Android, it is quite variable depending upon what the

> student needs – Legere Reader and Moon Reader Plus are good options.

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> Students are frequently  using extensions too  rather than apps (see

> bit.ly/extensionsahg <https://bit.ly/usingyourtech> for the AHG

> presentation I shared).

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>  ReaderMode.io, Immersive Reader (for Chrome and FF), Nat Reader,

> Pericles, Read Aloud, HelperBird…

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> For quick OCR and TTS, Google Lens has been improving vastly.

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> Feel free to explore our Getting Started Guides – short guides we produced

> for students on supportive technology  bit.ly/usingyourtech.

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> These are free and open for educational use – if you’d like to customize

> for your students, we’d appreciate a footnote.

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> We also did a series on IDK word for which we did an overview at AHG (

> bit.ly/idk-wordAHG ) … I didn’t Know Microsoft Word could do that…

> bit.ly/idk-word and an overview video (12 minutes)  of these with a

> faculty focus…

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> bit.ly/IDK-word-faculty.

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> Best regards,

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> Cath

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> Catherine M. Stager

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> Assistive Technology Specialist

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> Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Alexis Delevett

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> If you do have access to ePubs I can recommend Dolphin EasyReader

> <https://yourdolphin.com/products/individuals/easyreader-app>, it's free

> and available for iOS & Android

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> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [Athen] TTS apps - your recommendations?

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> For iOS, Voice Dream Reader is great. Android’s version, the Legere

> Reader, is good as well. Neither is free but they are relatively low cost.

> Both tend to work better with epubs than PDFs.

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Heidi Scher

> *Sent:* Thursday, January 20, 2022 12:37 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Athen] TTS apps - your recommendations?

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> Hello all!

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> I hope you had a wonderful winter break and are well. I'm curious as to

> what apps you suggest for students who want to use TTS on their mobile

> devices - typically a phone.

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> Ran across an interesting article on the topic, Best Test-to-Speech Apps

> - Listen to Text

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> Your thoughts would greatly be appreciated!

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> Warm regards,

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> Heidi

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> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

> Associate Director - AT

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> *she, her, hers*

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> Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas

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> 1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 209

> Fayetteville, AR 72701

> 479.575.3104 phone

> 479.575.7445 fax

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