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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>for the AHG presentation I shared). <span style="color:#EE6123"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> ReaderMode.io, Immersive Reader (for Chrome and FF), Nat Reader, Pericles, Read Aloud, HelperBird…
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<p class="MsoNormal">For quick OCR and TTS, Google Lens has been improving vastly.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Feel free to explore our Getting Started Guides – short guides we produced for students on supportive technology
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">We also did a series on IDK word for which we did an overview at AHG
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<a href="https://bit.ly/idk-word">bit.ly/idk-word</a> </span>and an overview video (12 minutes) of these with a faculty focus<span style="color:#EE6123">…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Catherine M. Stager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexis Delevett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 20, 2022 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] [EXTERNAL] Re: TTS apps - your recommendations?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you do have access to ePubs I can recommend
<a href="https://yourdolphin.com/products/individuals/easyreader-app" title="https://yourdolphin.com/products/individuals/easyreader-app">
Dolphin EasyReader</a>, it's free and available for iOS & Android<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>> on behalf of Katherine Deibel <<a href="mailto:kndeibel@metageekery.org">kndeibel@metageekery.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Athen] TTS apps - your recommendations?</span> <o:p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Library Accessibility Specialist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Twitter:
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heidi Scher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 20, 2022 12:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] TTS apps - your recommendations?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">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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<p class="xmsonormal">Ran across an interesting article on the topic, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.courselounge.com%2Fbest-text-to-speech-apps%2F&data=04%7C01%7Calexis_delevett%40cuesta.edu%7C386e2bfe20ff4487576d08d9dc3d803a%7Cdd06762afacb4cd7a4a5cc0ba50bcc30%7C0%7C0%7C637782978983298700%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=TeHQ94iq10vZHR4QnpmnEPKnuf2Df4h7%2B%2FDlMe%2FBS34%3D&reserved=0">
Best Test-to-Speech Apps - Listen to Text</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">+++++++++++++++<br>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><i>she, her, hers</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></p>
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