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<div>As you can see, I didn't get to my emails at a very reasonable time so will take a look at the reference website's tomorrow. The highlighting player sounds really nice but - you are so correct when you say reasonable is relative. I work in a one-person consulting firm, me being the one-person, although my husband takes care of the billing. Also, working for school districts in the California area, I have been declared a mandatory 10% cut recipient <gee what a winner!> </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Ken Petri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petri.1@osu.edu">petri.1@osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Nettie,<br><br>Ohio State is piloting ReadSpeaker Enterprise for the next year. It is not free but their pricing seems reasonable (I know "reasonable" is a relative term). If you want to write me directly, I can put you in contact with our rep. See how the "highlighting" player works here: <a href="http://www.voice-corp.com/en/text-to-speech-services-for-speech-enabling-the-web/ReadSpeaker-Enterprise/Solutions/Expanding-Player/" target="_blank">http://www.voice-corp.com/en/text-to-speech-services-for-speech-enabling-the-web/ReadSpeaker-Enterprise/Solutions/Expanding-Player/</a><br>
<br>Set up on the VoiceCorp end is the most expensive part and then you pay by number of page views--bought in blocks, I believe. Implementing on your own pages is very simple. Users do not have to install anything.<br><br>
Once implemented on a web page, the "highlighting" version reads, highlights as it reads, and allows for an MP3 to be downloaded. The speech synthesizers they use are very high quality. The web developer can set the playback speed.<br>
<br>Our pages show it working in a variety of circumstances, explain implementation in some detail, and discuss some problems we have discovered:<br><br><a href="http://www.osu.edu/resources/accessibility/readspeaker.html" target="_blank">http://www.osu.edu/resources/accessibility/readspeaker.html</a><br>
<br>(P.S. please ignore our woefully out of date accessibility advice page---it is being revised in the next few weeks. Yes, I know, it's bad....)<br><br>RocTalk is another commercial product: <a href="http://www.roktalk.com/" target="_blank">http://www.roktalk.com/</a>. No idea on pricing.<br>
<br><br clear="all">Best regards,<br>ken<br>---<br> Ken Petri <br> Program Director<br> OSU Web Accessibility Center<br> 102D Pomerene Hall<br> 1760 Neil Avenue<br> Columbus, Ohio 43210<br> Phone: (614) 292-1760<br>
Fax: (614) 292-4190<br> mailto:<a href="mailto:petri.1@osu.edu" target="_blank">petri.1@osu.edu</a><br><br><br>
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<div class="h5">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Nettie Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nettiet@gmail.com" target="_blank">nettiet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>I am trying to find a way to have my website read aloud for my few but inquiring visitors. Is there a low cost or hopefully free program out there that can be included in a website?</div>
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<div>Nettie <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Nettie T. Fischer, ATP<br>Assistive Technology Professional<br>Nettiet, ATP Consultants<br><a href="http://www.nettietatpconsultants.com/" target="_blank">www.nettietatpconsultants.com</a><br>
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