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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You need to turn this graphic novel into text-only, aka, a Word file. No pictures. The student can then listen to the files while viewing the hard copy of the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list <</span><a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Question about speech to text program to read graphic novels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I am working on a graph novel for a student that needs it to be read to them. I am using Kurzweil. Unfortunately Kurzweil is not a fan of this kind of format for books and I am forced to do
all the editing manually in Kurzweil to make sure its reads it correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I was wondering if there is any other program out there (perferble free) that reads graphic novels better than Kurzweil? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Or is there another format I should be uploading into Kurzweil that would read it better? At the moment I am using PDF files to upload to Kurzweil. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thank you for your time and help. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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