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Leveled reading uses various assessment tools to determine how well your child reads, and then matches them to books that are challenging enough for them to make progress. Books are categorized into levels of difficulty, which is how a perfect match, based on ability, can be made.

There are several leveled reading systems utilized in schools across the country. Three of the most common leveled reading methods include Guided Reading Level (GRL), Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) and Lexile Measures.
Guided Reading Level (GRL)
At the beginning of the school year, your child will sit one-on-one with their teacher and read from a benchmark book (one considered standard for the grade). Kids may also be asked to answer questions about the text or retell the story. Their teacher may use a Reading Record to calculate any oral reading mistakes and to help determine a suitable guided reading level and books for your child. Under GRL, books run from A to Z, with A being easiest.

Throughout the year, your child's teacher will gradually move your child step by step into more difficult text, providing guided instruction along the way. At home, you can support the reading in the classroom by providing books at the appropriate level for your child to read independently.

Here are great books for different Guided Reading Levels:

A-C: Bob Books Set 1: Beginning Readers

D-E: A Diaper David Board Books Collection

F-K: Fly Guy Pack (Books 1-14)

L-M: Branches Missy's Super Duper Royal Deluxe Pack (Books 1-4)

M-O: Branches Kung Pow Chicken Pack (Books 1-4)

P-S: Dog Man: The Supa Epic Collection (Books 1-6)

P-U: American Girl Series Starter Bundle (Pack of 5)

V-W: Harry Potter Illustrated Collection (Pack of 4)

Read more about guided reading levels here.
Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
Similar to GRL, at the beginning of the school year your child will read a benchmark book to the teacher and then retell the story. The teacher then scores your child on a range of skills, such as accuracy of reading, comprehension, and fluency. This system starts with level A, for the easiest books, and then switches to numeric levels, running from 1 to 80.
Lexile® Measures
Your child may receive a Lexile measure in one of two ways: by taking a school-administered Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) assessment, specifically designed to generate a Lexile measure of reading ability, or by taking a standardized leveled reading test that converts the results to a Lexile measure. Lexile also evaluates books for difficulty, with levels ranging from 200L to 1700L+ for advanced readers.
FAQs:

How can I find the "just right" books for my child?
Ask your child's teacher what level they're at, and request a list of appropriate books. However, when reading at home, educators say that children should read a level or twobelow the one they read at in school, when they are receiving instruction from the teacher.

How can I help my child become a better reader?
Continue to read to them every day and expose them to the language of books. Have them read to you. If they make a mistake, simply tell them the correct word and let them move on. This increases enjoyment and fluency. To increase comprehension, talk about the story after you've read it.

What level should my child be reading at in each grade?
There is a range of levels within each grade. Your child's teacher can address your child's current level and the goals they are working on with your child. To see how levels generally correspond to each grade, review the chart below. With good instruction, your child will steadily become a better reader, even if they are one or two levels behind peers.
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What it is

An audio recording of a book being read aloud

A technology that speaks aloud digital text, such as books, news articles, magazine articles and websites, on a computer or mobile device

Type of reading voice

Human voice

Computer-generated voice

How the voice sounds

Audiobooks are usually read aloud by actors. Because a person reads the text, audiobook readings tend to include things like:

Changes in tone and emotion.

Pauses in the reading at natural places, like at the end of sentences.

There are many different TTS voices. As technology improves, the voices sound more and more natural. But since TTS is a digital voice and not a human voice, the reading may have:

Words pronounced wrong.

Pauses in places that don’t make sense.

Words read in a tone or with an emotion that doesn’t make sense.

Technology format

Typically a digital file. Audiobooks are often formatted as MP3 files that can be played on a computer or mobile phone.

Software or program. Many electronic devices come with TTS built in. TTS is also available in a wide range of apps and programs.

How it’s used with visual text

Kids listen to the book read aloud. They may have a printed copy of the book and turn the pages to follow along. Or they may follow the words on a screen.

Kids listen to the text spoken aloud as they follow the words on a screen.

Highlighting words

Most audiobooks don’t highlight words as they’re read aloud.

However, some newer versions of audiobooks sync the audio recording to digital text. In that case kids can hear words read and see them highlighted on a screen.

Many TTS tools highlight words as they are spoken.

Moving around in the text

You can jump around to different parts of an audiobook. But it can be hard to find a specific passage or sentence, since you have to rewind or fast forward to locate it.

Some newer audiobooks sync with digital text. In that case, you can scroll or use Control/Command+F to search for chapters, page numbers and even words.

With TTS, it’s easy to find a specific part of a book. You can search the table of contents or look for particular words using Control/Command+F. TTS then reads the text that’s found.

What to know about cost

An audiobook is a recording of just one specific book. You can buy an audiobook for every book your child wants to read. Or you can use a service and pay a yearly fee for as many audiobooks as your child chooses to read.

Costs vary:

Audiobooks can be free or inexpensive. You might find them at your local library.

Newer types of audiobooks that sync to digital text cost more but can still be reasonably priced.

TTS software can be used for any digital text. Once you have it, you can use it for multiple book and for other uses, such as reading email.

Costs vary:

TTS software may be free if it’s built into a mobile phone, tablet or other device.

TTS programs can range in price. Many come with more natural-sounding voices and features like a built-in dictionary or the option to speed up or slow down the reading speed.

Where to find it

Some places to look for audiobooks:

Learning Ally

$49/quarterly for four audiobooks; $119/year for unlimited audiobooks

Must have a documented print disability to be eligible for membership

75,000+ audiobooks available

Learning Ally is a nonprofit organization

Commercial Services

Audible.com: $14.95/month for one audiobook, from a selection of 100,000+ titles

Kindle: $9.99/month for unlimited access to 3,000+ audiobooks

Amazon Immersion: Prices vary; allows some audiobooks to sync to digital text

Apps for Purchase

For example, Shakespeare in Bits ($14.99)

Explore more audiobook apps in Tech Finder

Some places to look for TTS resources:

Bookshare

Free for U.S. students with a documented print disability

$50/year plus one-time $25 setup fee for other users with a documented print disability

660,000+ digital TTS books

A project of Benetech, a nonprofit organization and Understood founding partner

Commercial Services

Kindle: $9.99/month for unlimited access to 4 million digital books; requires an app or built-in feature for TTS

Built-in TTS

Mobile devices using iOS or Android have free TTS features

Apps for Purchase

For example: Voice Dream Reader ($9.99)

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High Noon Books was founded in 1981 by John Arena, a pioneer in special education who was an educator and remedial therapist. Like its parent company, Academic Therapy Publications, that he started in 1965, High Noon served to fill a need to bring much desired materials to special populations.

High Noon Books cares about the needs of the struggling reader. We enjoy attending conferences and hearing from teachers about the various High Noon series they have used for years. It inspires us to continue to be true to the people that we serve: individuals who are beginning to read English, are reading below reading level, or just need motivating topics to inspire them to read more.

High Noon Books offers a wide variety of opportunities for you, the teacher, to decide what are the most appropriate books for your struggling students and English Language Learners. We encourage you to explore our site and take a look at the story samples we provide for many of our phonics-based, hi-lo, and high-interest titles.

High Noon Books provides a means to expose and reinforce the most common words in English to at-risk, ELL, struggling readers, and special-ed populations, for the purpose of getting students reading on grade level.

Most English sentences can be formed from just 300 to 1000 English words. By increasing exposure to the most common words (also known as high-frequency words) in English, students increase their chances of learning them, and also their ability to read (decode) and comprehend more complex sentences.

It is very important that students develop good reading skills by the time they reach middle school, when the reading material and subject matter gradually increase in complexity.

High Noon Books can serve as a bridge between beginning reading material (picture books and stories with only a few words per page) and standard text (as in a magazine, schoolbook, or trade book).

We offer a broad range of high-interest subjects and formats:

* phonics-based chapter books
* high interest / low reading level (hi-lo) books
* short stories that have a low Lexile rating
* graphic novels and picture books
* e-books and hear-and-read audio books

About High Interest / Low Reading Level, or "Hi-Lo" Books

High interest / low reading level books are characterized by the difference between the interest level (most often the age or grade of the reader) and the grade level or reading level in which the story text is written. Many teachers also use Lexile scores to match text with a student's reading level. Lexiles are calculated by measuring sentence length and vocabulary usage.

Hi-Lo books look like a typical book, that is, they are designed to contain illustrations and content that appeals to a struggling reader's age and maturity level. However, they are written at a reading level that is lower than the student's grade level. A lower reading level provides an opportunity for the student to read words he or she is familiar with, while introducing a few new words and terms. In this way the student can read more fluently and therefore increase comprehension. By getting familiar with the most common 300 to 1000 words used in the majority of everyday language, a student should also be able to move on to reading more complex sentences.

We at High Noon Books know that books for struggling readers need to be much more than short sentences and low Lexile scores. Controlled vocabulary, subtle repetition of vocabulary, predictable text and illustrations that truly support the story are all important factors to consider when selecting the proper reading materials for your students.

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High Noon Books was founded in 1981 by John Arena, a pioneer in special education who was an educator and remedial therapist. Like its parent company, Academic Therapy Publications, that he started in 1965, High Noon served to fill a need to bring much desired materials to special populations.

High Noon Books cares about the needs of the struggling reader. We enjoy attending conferences and hearing from teachers about the various High Noon series they have used for years. It inspires us to continue to be true to the people that we serve: individuals who are beginning to read English, are reading below reading level, or just need motivating topics to inspire them to read more.

High Noon Books offers a wide variety of opportunities for you, the teacher, to decide what are the most appropriate books for your struggling students and English Language Learners. We encourage you to explore our site and take a look at the story samples we provide for many of our phonics-based, hi-lo, and high-interest titles.

High Noon Books provides a means to expose and reinforce the most common words in English to at-risk, ELL, struggling readers, and special-ed populations, for the purpose of getting students reading on grade level.

Most English sentences can be formed from just 300 to 1000 English words. By increasing exposure to the most common words (also known as high-frequency words) in English, students increase their chances of learning them, and also their ability to read (decode) and comprehend more complex sentences.

It is very important that students develop good reading skills by the time they reach middle school, when the reading material and subject matter gradually increase in complexity.

High Noon Books can serve as a bridge between beginning reading material (picture books and stories with only a few words per page) and standard text (as in a magazine, schoolbook, or trade book).

We offer a broad range of high-interest subjects and formats:

* phonics-based chapter books
* high interest / low reading level (hi-lo) books
* short stories that have a low Lexile rating
* graphic novels and picture books
* e-books and hear-and-read audio books

About High Interest / Low Reading Level, or "Hi-Lo" Books

High interest / low reading level books are characterized by the difference between the interest level (most often the age or grade of the reader) and the grade level or reading level in which the story text is written. Many teachers also use Lexile scores to match text with a student's reading level. Lexiles are calculated by measuring sentence length and vocabulary usage.

Hi-Lo books look like a typical book, that is, they are designed to contain illustrations and content that appeals to a struggling reader's age and maturity level. However, they are written at a reading level that is lower than the student's grade level. A lower reading level provides an opportunity for the student to read words he or she is familiar with, while introducing a few new words and terms. In this way the student can read more fluently and therefore increase comprehension. By getting familiar with the most common 300 to 1000 words used in the majority of everyday language, a student should also be able to move on to reading more complex sentences.

We at High Noon Books know that books for struggling readers need to be much more than short sentences and low Lexile scores. Controlled vocabulary, subtle repetition of vocabulary, predictable text and illustrations that truly support the story are all important factors to consider when selecting the proper reading materials for your students.

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LightSail (sometimes called Rosen-LightSail) is an e-reading literacy platform that helps teachers support their students' independent reading. Students can use LightSail to check out texts from their schools' digital library and read the books directly on their devices. The library of 6,000 texts can be expanded in a couple of ways. First, teachers can purchase books from a store. Second, teachers can upload their own texts in a variety of formats (including ePub, Google Docs, and PDF) and create their own books and assignments with the Content Builder tool. As students progress through a book, questions appear to gauge their comprehension, from simple multiple-choice Cloze-style questions to longer narrative responses. As students complete these assessments, they earn badges and also earn a Lexile measure, an evaluation of their current reading level based on their answers to the reading comprehension questions and the difficulty of the particular book. The Lexile measure is updated in real time with each assessment. Students always have access to their own data on the student home screen, which displays their per-page reading progress, their earned badges from completed tasks, and their Lexile score. Teachers can also view students' data in real time and post to a class-wide leaderboard to celebrate student successes and milestones.

As students select texts, other recommended reads appear on the home screen. These books might include a green lightning bolt indicating a Power Text: This lets students know that a book will give them a bit of a challenge and help them develop their skills. Students can also browse the library, sorting books by language, Lexile level, and fiction or nonfiction. Teachers can sort similarly and assign specific students or groups of students appropriate texts for their current level. Students can make notes as they read, and their teachers can view students' annotations (which show the relevant highlighted text) and then respond to notes, allowing students to engage in dialogue with their teacher as they read. A student's portfolio captures the text and annotations, so students might use their short-form notes for writing longer essays later. Teachers can annotate text, too, and those annotations can extend to all classes or academic areas. Usefully annotations -- called Thoughts -- can be written or spoken.

Using LightSail is a district- or school-wide endeavor, requiring schools to license texts and manage a digital library, and it's unlikely that teachers could elect to adopt LightSail for their classroom without the support of their school or district.
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I recently came across an article titled Don't Use Text To Speech Software For eLearning. In it, the author argues that using Text To Speech for eLearning can present information, but doesn't actually help students learn. He claims that only a good teacher or trained voice talent can successfully teach.

Working in the Text To Speech industry myself, I've spent a lot of time looking into why Text To Speech is used for eLearning purposes, and how it affects a student's learning experience.

First off, the why can be answered with one word, accessibility. Much like how eLearning makes education more accessible to students outside of the classroom, Text To Speech makes the content within an eLearning course more accessible to students by reading it out loud. This is especially beneficial to students with visual or learning disabilities.

Text To Speech is also an economical and time-saving solution when compared to hiring a voice talent. It is cheap and very easy to implement. Because of these reasons, we have seen many eLearning providers turn to Text To Speech to enunciate their courses.

The original article touches on all of these points and doesn't dispute them. However, the author goes on to say that learning does not easily take place with Text To Speech and compares it to a dry, mono-toned lecturer that is unable to engage with the listener. In short, he claims that Text To Speech doesn't positively benefit a student's learning experience.

First, as I mentioned earlier, I've looked a lot into how Text To Speech affects a students learning experience. Over the past decade a lot of research has been done on this topic. Overwhelmingly, the results show that Text To Speech is indeed beneficial to students and helps them learn. I'll highlight a few of these studies below.

Second, I disagree that Text To Speech is dry and can't engage with the listener. The technology has advanced greatly over the past few years and sounds incredibly realistic (if you choose a high-quality Text To Speech provider that is). A natural sounding Text To Speech voice can easily bring life to any text.

I'll touch on this later as well, but first, let's get to the research.

What Research Says About The Effectiveness Of Text To Speech

To start, a study published in the Journal of Special Education Technology wanted to see if Text To Speech improved literacy abilities. Students who had literacy difficulties were broken up into groups with one of the groups given assistive software (Text To Speech) to help them read. The students in assistive software group saw an improvement in reading comprehension, spelling error detection, and understanding word meanings. The rest of the students in the control groups saw no significant improvement in any of these areas.

Another study, which you can read in its entirety here, also tested the effects of Text To Speech on struggling high school readers. The results found that the participants using Text To Speech software with their reading materials had significantly improved their reading skills.

In these cases, being able to hear the text, as opposed to just reading it, significantly helped the students improve their reading comprehension. Even though it wasn't a real human reading out the text to them, they were still able to learn better thanks to the Text To Speech software.

Two more studies published in the Journal of Special Education Technology tested the effectiveness of Text To Speech for students with special needs.

The first one examined the effects of a Text To Speech screen reader on students who had learning disabilities ranging from traumatic brain injuries, autism, cognitive disabilities, and emotional disabilities. The results showed that the students using the Text To Speech reader had improved their performance in school. The researchers concluded Text To Speech positively affected the student's learning experience by helping them understand concepts better and keeping them motivated.

The other study involved giving students with moderate learning disabilities a reading in Microsoft Reader to go through while at home. Students who were provided with Text To Speech tools were better able to independently understand the information. This study showed that Text To Speech can help students with learning disabilities learn and study on their own.

Now, I'm not saying that the same results wouldn't have been achieved in each of these cases if a pre-recorded voice talent had read the text aloud. However, these studies did prove that Text To Speech technology on its own successfully helped the students learn. In each of these studies, as well as several others I've read, Text To Speech improved the student's learning experiences.

I have no doubt in saying that using Text To Speech for eLearning is beneficial to students. The claim that Text To Speech only presents information without actually teaching doesn't hold up against the research.

Text To Speech Voices Can Be Engaging

The other point I wanted to make was that Text To Speech technology has advanced enough that it can be very engaging, as opposed to dry and boring. Text To Speech might be known for the robotic sounding voices of the 90s, but times have certainly changed. High-quality voices can have a surprisingly human-like sound to them. Here's a short exert from a lesson about Benjamin Franklin. You can listen to it be read aloud by NeoSpeech's Julie voice here.

"Ben Franklin, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was also a scientist, philanthropist, statesman, civic leader, and diplomat. He is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States."

As you can hear for yourself, a modern, high-quality Text To Speech voice can sound very realistic, and a big part of that is because Julie's Text To Speech engine analyzes every piece of text it receives to understand the meaning and context of the text. Once the engine has applied meaning to each word and sentence, it inserts proper inflection, tone, and timing throughout the speech.

A side note on that point, notice that I said a high-quality Text To Speech voice can do those things. If you want your eLearning Text To Speech voice to be as engaging as possible, make sure you don't skimp out on quality.

The research shows that Text To Speech technology in eLearning is beneficial to students. The voices can be engaging which helps the students learn. Plus, a Text To Speech engine can instantly convert any length of text into speech, as opposed to a voice talent who has to be scheduled to perform a recording and is often much costlier than a Text To Speech solution.

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Aldiko provides an extensive set of features for both casual and power users:

• Customize your reading experience with multiple fonts and themes
• Full support for dark mode throughout the app
• Highlight any text in EPUB, add your annotations and easily export them to plain text documents
• Organize your bookshelf to your liking with categories and collections

We love open-source and standards at De Marque and Aldiko 4 is built on top of open-source software that we directly contribute to:

• Read EPUB files via a Readium Mobile based reading experience
• Explore catalogs using OPDS
• Full support for Readium LCP based on EPUB, PDF and audiobooks

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AnyBook™ is a magical reading pen enabling words and pictures to talk using your vocal recordings with any book ... that's right, ANY BOOK! Use it with: comic books, coloring books, number and language books, chapter books, newspapers and more.

Empower children from the earliest ages with an engaging, enhanced reading experience. Encourage behaviors that make kids enthusiastic readers.

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AnyBook™ Anywhere (DPR-5100) holds audio up to 200 hours of recording time + 420 reusable stickers with pre-recorded sounds made with a special glue that doesn't harm your books + a headphone jack for private listening + backup & share capabilities via AnyBook™ Case. It's the answer to recording from anywhere on Earth ... so long as you have an internet connection ... and growing a virtual library with other DRP-5100 users for FREE! AnyBook™ Case gives the freedom to record, save, and share a story, lesson or message without needing the pen. (The pen only need belong to the little one reading.) The recordings are downloaded into the pen from AnyBook™ Case. Now, a family member serving overseas can read that bedtime story and cast away fears of monsters in the closet and Grandma can leap tall buildings and save cities with her superhero voices.

AnyBook™ Personal (DRP-4100) holds audio up to 30 hours of recording time + 520 reusable stickers with pre-recorded sounds made with a special glue that doesn't harm your books + a headphone jack for private listening.

AnyBook™ Keepsake (DRP-3100) holds audio up to 15 hours of recording time + over 200 unique stickers (decorative, white and clear) with pre-recorded sounds made with a special glue that doesn't harm your keepsakes. Place the stickers anywhere you desire - photo frames, cookbooks, awards, mementos, scrapbooks!

Franklin® is known for its educational language products. AnyBook™ is a line-up of reading enhancement products that allow your child to hear YOU or a loved one read any book for an intimate learning experience even when you are not there. It is for parents passionate about the importance of reading in the education of their children.

AnyBook™ Anywhere (DRP-5100) is the newest model in the AnyBook™ series and is the first to be paired with the much anticipated AnyBook™ Case. Record and share from anywhere in the world so long as you have an internet connection. From books to lessons, store your recordings in your own virtual library as backup. Forever will your stories be safe and heard for playback any time. You'll be able to share your collection, too, with friends, family, educators and more. Anyone with AnyBook™ Case can participate. It's as easy as plug and play!

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is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to . The on-screen text can be saved as an audio file. The program can read the clipboard content, extract text from documents, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka supports text file formats: AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.

The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously (at the same way, as lyrics for songs).

Download Balabolka

Size: MB

Version: Changelog

Licence: Freeware

Operating System:

Portable Balabolka does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive. Portable Version: Download ( MB)

A computer must have at least one voice installed.

The utility contains no graphical user interface and works only from the command line. Command Line Utility: Download ( KB)

The application handles various command line parameters to be able to read text aloud or save as an audio file.

Text Extract Utility: Download ( MB)
The program allows to extract text from the various types of files. The extracted text can be combined into one file or/and split into few files. The utility works from the command line, without displaying any user interface.

* Balabolka is a Russian word, it can be translated as " chatterer".

The program allows to use skins for customizing your window appearance.

Download Skin Pack (6.7 MB, 107 skins)

Balabolka can use the Microsoft Speech API 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform text-to-speech engines.

All voices for SAPI 4 became obsolete; they are not recommended for installing anymore.
Use the fresh versions of speech engines.

RHVoice - free and open source speech synthesizer (it supports English, Esperanto, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Portuguese, Russian, Tatar and Ukrainian):

UkrVox - free Ukrainian voice created by Yaroslav Kozak (Lviv, Ukraine):

Ekho - free TTS engine (it supports Cantonese, Mandarin and Zhaoan Hakka):

Hear2Read - free voices for Indic languages (Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu):

To get better voice quality, you can purchase commercial TTS engines.
High Quality Commercial Voices:

Microsoft Speech Platform

The Microsoft Speech Platform allows developers to build and deploy Text-to-Speech applications. The Microsoft Speech Platform consists of a Runtime, and Runtime Languages (engines for speech recognition and text-to-speech). There are separate Runtime Languages for speech recognition and speech synthesis. The version of the Runtime Languages must match the version of the Speech Platform that you installed.

Use the following steps to install the Microsoft Speech Platform (version 11.0):

1. Download and install the Speech Platform Runtime
(the file 'x86_SpeechPlatformRuntime\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi').

2. Download and install Runtime Languages for use with the Speech Platform
(file names starting with 'MSSpeech_TTS_').

The Microsoft Speech Platform provides support for 26 languages for speech synthesis. XML tags can be used both for SAPI 5 and the Speech Platform.

Balabolka can use Hunspell ( hunspell.github.io). Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Mozilla Firefox.

Spell checker dictionaries for Windows:

Balabolka can use language modules from Microsoft Office 97/2000 for spell checking. If Microsoft Office is not installed on your computer, or you use the other version of Microsoft Office, you can download spell checking components from my web-site:

Balabolka allows to use the spell checking built in operating system. The Spell Checking API is available beginning with the Windows 8.

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Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

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Audiobooks

An audiobook is a recording of a text read aloud, either word for word or abridged. They are a convenient alternative to traditional books and an important media for the visually impaired. Audiobooks have come a long way since the 1930s when the first full length recordings appeared for people with disabilities. They were made available to the general public in the 1950s, but it wasn't until the 1970s with the release of cassette tapes that popularity began to rise, especially among commuters while driving. Today, we no longer use bulky recording formats to listen to audiobooks. New digital devices with space for thousands of files allow you to carry a library around, and download or stream audio directly online. Popular audio formats like mp3 files play on the majority of digital devices. Platforms such as Google Books and Amazon, provide access to huge libraries of books, while smaller non-profit organizations, such as Librivox, allow public domain access to free audiobooks read by volunteers.

eBooks

An eBook (or Electronic Book) is a version of a printed book in digital format. They are cheaper and quicker to publish and therefore provide a more convenient way to circulate literature. During the 1970s the Internet provided a huge step forward for sharing digital texts and making them available on screen and ready to download. By the end of the 1990s, publishers started to provide digital versions alongside their printed counterparts. EBooks are typically read using an e-reader, such as the popular Kindle, although most digital devices can read EPUBs, the most common format used today. Some devices even allow you to listen to the spoken word and read at the same time. There are plenty of free eBooks available in the public domain, from sites such as Gutenberg and although not likely to replace printed books in the near future, eBooks and audiobooks are changing the way we consume literature. Digitalbook.io aims to facilitate this by bringing together the best digital books from all the top online sources.

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Read Any Way You Like

Listen To Texts

Listen to anything you want to read with a fluent, natural sounding voice of your choice, and follow along to improve spelling and word recognition.

Customize Your Voices

Select your favorite voice and set your comfortable speech rate for each language to make it easier to understand the texts read to you.

Change How Text Looks

Personalize the text to make it easier read by customizing size, font, color, line spacing, and a number of other parameters.

Use Capti On Any Webpage

Listen To and Read Selected Text

Use Capti Chrome extension to select and listen to the content of any web page read out loud by natural sounding voices and follow along as needed.

Save Web Articles to Capti

Save the selected passage or the entire web page to the Capti playlist. Capti will strip out links and ads and save the main article content.

Supports Google Docs, Office 365, PDF

Use Capti Chrome extension to access Google and Office 365 Documents online; Canvas, Blackboard, and other LMSs; PDFs opened in the browser, etc.

Minimize Capti Window

Hide the window with the text and just listen to the content of the website.

Save Anything to Capti

Import Any Document

Import documents and images in any popular format, as well as web articles into the Capti Playlists to aggregate and organize the reading materials.

Import From the Cloud

Import documents from Google Drive, OneDrive, Office 365, iCloud Drive, Dropbox. Capti understands Google and Office 365 document formats.

Import From Your LMS

Import files from Canvas or BlackBoard. Support for more Learning Management Systems is comming soon.

Import From Book Libraries

Import books from Bookshare (500K+ titles) - a free library for students with print disabilities, or from Project Gutenberg (50K+ titles) - a free library of classical books.

Import Photos

Take a photo of text with your phone or import a scanned document to turn it into machine readable text with the best optical character recognition (OCR).

Import in Rich Text or Original Layout

Import documents in Rich Text format to personalize the way the text looks or import in the Original Layout format to view them exactly as the author intended. Enables "Write on Documents" feature.

Write, Annotate, and Highlight

Highlights, Bookmarks, and Comments

Enhance text by highlighting passages, bookmarking important locations, and adding notes. Share your annotations or export them to a separate document.

Write on Documents

Write answers or make a side note on an original-layout documents. Export your writing, as well as print or email document to share.

Build Vocabulary

Translation to 100+ languages

Use contextual translation for individual words and passages. Capti translates to over 100 languages with over 25 offering text-to-speech support.

English dictionary definitions

Look up the meaning of unknown words in context to get the most accurate definition, or provide custom definitions you like.

Word Challenge Game

Play the Word Challenge game to build vocabulary, increase reading comprehension, and practice context clues.

Personalized Word Lists

Build your own word list with definitions or translations and use it as a study guide. Share your word lists or export them into a separate document.

Lookup Words on Any Webpage

Use Capti Chrome extension to look up translations and definitions without leaving the web page you are viewing.

Assign Reading to Students

Share Your Content with Students

Share any content as playlists of tracks. A playlist can contain files of any type, web articles, books, and more.

Share Your Notes with Students

Any notes (comments, highlights, bookmarks, and more) that you take in a shared playlist will be visible to anyone with access.

Send Students a Link to Playlist

Make it easy for your students to find their assigned reading by sending them a link to a specific page in playlist.

Review Notes Taken by Students

You can review all notes taken by your students in playlists you shared with them.

Track Student Progress

Monitor student engagement with Capti analytics.

Access from Anywhere

Offline Support

Use Capti online or install it to use it offline, e.g., when there is no Internet or for exam accommodations.

Cross-Device Sync

Use Capti on any of your devices - your content will synchronize so you can conveniently switch among your devices.

Supported Browsers

Use Capti with with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Supported Operating Systems

Use Capti on Chromebooks, Windows, Mac, and iOS. (Android online only)

Usability and Accessibility

Screen-Reader Accessibility

Use Capti with Jaws, NVDA, and VoiceOver - Capti is built from the ground up with screen-reader compatibility in mind,

Advanced Text Navigation

Navigate text by pages, headings, paragraphs, sentences, words, time, keywords, bookmarks, etc.

Feature Access Control

OCR

Disable use of Optical Character Recognition for all students or all users

Personal Purchases

Disable in-app purchases for all students or all users

Translation Lookup

Disable translation of text or individual words for all users

Definition Lookup

Disable definition of words for all users

Passwords

Disable password changing for all students

Easy Account Administration

Single Sign-On

Sign in to Capti with Google, Clever, or Facebook. Log in through Canvas or Blackboard using LTI integration.

Automatic Rostering

Import the roster of students, teachers, and classes from Clever, any Student Information System (SIS), or using LTI integration. Great for large accounts.

Manual Rostering

Import the roster of students, teachers, and classes from Google Classroom or a .CSV file. Manually manage everything. Great for small accounts.

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Read text aloud. PDF reading books speak text to voice, read it out loud

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Use Capti Voice to read books online and speak text. Read any book from Bookshare and Gutenberg with free text to speech. Read out loud PDF, DAISY, EPUB, DOC.

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Free extension with a few Premium features, see below.

Speak any text on a website by selecting it, point with the mouse to hear text and links and captions, or click Play to hear sentences read out with highlighting to let you keep track of where you are.

Read Google Docs documents back to you so you can proof your work and fix any errors.

Speak accessible PDFs opened in Google Chrome with highlighting by clicking the Play button.

Hear letters, words or sentences spoken back as you type. Simply type in to web pages and hear what you type as you type it. For letters, hear the letter names or sounds spoken back to you, whichever helps you understand better.

Turn on a coloured overlay so pages are tinted to the colour you find easiest to read - no more glaring black on white text.

Change the speed of the spoken voice, slower for comprehension, faster for efficiency.

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If you want to know whether a specific book is within a student's Lexile range, you can use our ocated on our Quick Search feature l Lexile® Find a Book tool. All you need is a book's author, title or ISBN number to find the Lexile text measure of that book.

You can also use Find a Book to search for books based on text features. You can search for books based on Lexile codes, which provide information on the book's intended usage, or find books that are easy to decode or have a lot of patterning to help beginning readers.

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High Noon Books was founded in 1981 by John Arena, a pioneer in special education who was an educator and remedial therapist. Like its parent company, Academic Therapy Publications, that he started in 1965, High Noon served to fill a need to bring much desired materials to special populations.

High Noon Books cares about the needs of the struggling reader. We enjoy attending conferences and hearing from teachers about the various High Noon series they have used for years. It inspires us to continue to be true to the people that we serve: individuals who are beginning to read English, are reading below reading level, or just need motivating topics to inspire them to read more.

High Noon Books offers a wide variety of opportunities for you, the teacher, to decide what are the most appropriate books for your struggling students and English Language Learners. We encourage you to explore our site and take a look at the story samples we provide for many of our phonics-based, hi-lo, and high-interest titles.

High Noon Books provides a means to expose and reinforce the most common words in English to at-risk, ELL, struggling readers, and special-ed populations, for the purpose of getting students reading on grade level.

Most English sentences can be formed from just 300 to 1000 English words. By increasing exposure to the most common words (also known as high-frequency words) in English, students increase their chances of learning them, and also their ability to read (decode) and comprehend more complex sentences.

It is very important that students develop good reading skills by the time they reach middle school, when the reading material and subject matter gradually increase in complexity.

High Noon Books can serve as a bridge between beginning reading material (picture books and stories with only a few words per page) and standard text (as in a magazine, schoolbook, or trade book).

We offer a broad range of high-interest subjects and formats:

* phonics-based chapter books
* high interest / low reading level (hi-lo) books
* short stories that have a low Lexile rating
* graphic novels and picture books
* e-books and hear-and-read audio books

About High Interest / Low Reading Level, or "Hi-Lo" Books

High interest / low reading level books are characterized by the difference between the interest level (most often the age or grade of the reader) and the grade level or reading level in which the story text is written. Many teachers also use Lexile scores to match text with a student's reading level. Lexiles are calculated by measuring sentence length and vocabulary usage.

Hi-Lo books look like a typical book, that is, they are designed to contain illustrations and content that appeals to a struggling reader's age and maturity level. However, they are written at a reading level that is lower than the student's grade level. A lower reading level provides an opportunity for the student to read words he or she is familiar with, while introducing a few new words and terms. In this way the student can read more fluently and therefore increase comprehension. By getting familiar with the most common 300 to 1000 words used in the majority of everyday language, a student should also be able to move on to reading more complex sentences.

We at High Noon Books know that books for struggling readers need to be much more than short sentences and low Lexile scores. Controlled vocabulary, subtle repetition of vocabulary, predictable text and illustrations that truly support the story are all important factors to consider when selecting the proper reading materials for your students.

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Because we believe everyone can learn, and every student has the right to reach their full potential. As the nation's #1 solution for special education, we're the first-and only-comprehensive solution serving at the epicenter of successful teams, and now we're excited to offer proven intervention for general education. For 25 years, it's been our mission to work side by side with special educators, transforming not only the classroom, but also the lives of teachers and administrators, service providers and paraprofessionals, families and caregivers, and all the students we proudly serve.
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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. More

Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog. You can browse by subjects, authors or lists members have created. If you love books, why not help build a library?

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It's an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it.

Why use Snappy Words visual dictionary?

Easy to use dictionary and thesaurus.

Learn how words associate in a visually interactive display.

Get ideas to help write content for your blog, article, thesis or simply play with words!

No registration required.

No limit on number of searches. Look up as many words as you need anytime.

No software installation needed. All you need is an internet connection and a browser (Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and others).

It's free and fun!

How do I use it?

Type words in the search box and click Go or simply hit Enter. Once the words branch off the main query, you can double click a node to find other related words. To explore the features:

1. Place the mouse cursor over a word to view the meaning.

2. Double click a node from the branch to view other related words.

3. Scroll the mouse wheel over words to zoom in or out. This helps you see more
associations or view words and meanings more clearly.

4. Click and drag a word or branch to move it around and explore other branches.

What dictionary does Snappy Words use?

The Snappy Words interface queries the WordNet lexical database developed by Princeton University and made available for students and language researchers. This dictionary groups synonyms into synsets through lexical relations between terms. These meanings and semantic relationships are revealed graphically by the interactive web technology made available by Snappy Words.

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PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.

You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.

Speech is provided by the synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows 7, Vista and XP, and other voices are available. PowerTalk uses PowerPoint supplied with Microsoft Office to show the presentation.

PowerTalk was created in response to an open letter calling for help from a person with Asphasia. This appeared in Ability magazine, 'Campaigning for Accessible IT' published by John Lamb Media for the British Computer Society Disability Group in association with AbilityNet.

The OATSoft website is home to PowerTalk and many other Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS) projects.

Aids you if you have difficulty speaking or you have an audience that contains people with sight problems (visual impairments, low vision or blind) or who have dyslexia;

Helps you access presentations when there is no speaker and you are partially sighted;

Creates engaging school activities such as reading stories created by students;

Simple to use as you just select a presentation and it runs in PowerPoint as usual;

Speaks the text on any presentation and uses standard Windows speech;

Waits for text to appear and animation effects to play before speaking;

Will speak hidden 'alternative text' for pictures, graphics shapes and text;

Lets you add instant narration to presentations without the need to record speech;

Is a useful tool for testing presentation accessibility when using a screen reader;

Is mature with 1000s of downloads and several reviews from people who have found it useful;

Free (gratis - as in 'free beer'). No purchase, registration or adverts, you just download and run it;

Free (libre - as in 'free speech'). The Open Source Licence guarantees you the freedom to make copies and to alter its behaviour;

Is listed on DMOZ and on Google web directories;

Anyone can contribute to the project and developers will find it is a SourceForge project;

Is an example of Open Source Assistive Technology Software, or OATS. Find out more on the Fullmeasure.co.uk home page.

Is a featured project in the OATSoft Open Source Assistive Technology Software project which brings the benefits of Open Source software to Assistive Technology users;

PowerTalk requires that you have PowerPoint 2000 (or later) and the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) 5.1 (part of Windows XP). This is explained below.
Click on this icon to download the PowerTalk 1.2.14 [3.4 MB] installation program. Once downloaded, Open/Run the installer and after the installation is complete you can open the demo presentation to test PowerTalk works correctly. PowerTalk Portable [3.8 MB) is also available and runs without any installation making it ideal for running off a USB stick or in enterprise situations.
You can install 2 additional free voices (Mike and Mary) with the SAPI Text To Speech (TTS) components [12MB]. TheUsing PowerTalk section below describes how to use PowerTalk on existing presentations.
Previous versions of all files can be found at the SourceForge PowerTalk Project Files Page.

Being an open source product, the source code [810 KB] is freely available for those who wish to see or use it. Please see the licence section below for terms.

Requirements, what you must have to run PowerTalk.

PowerTalk runs on Windows XP, VISTA, 7 (it should also work on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000).

You must have PowerPoint 2000 or later installed. Unfortunately the Microsoft PowerPoint viewer is not useable as it does not provide the basic functionality that PowerTalk requires.

The Microsoft Speech API 5.1 (MS SAPI 5.1) must be installed and if you have Windows XP or later you will already have it. (For earlier versions of Windows you can download and install the SAPI Text To Speech (TTS) components [12MB]) This download can also be used with Windows XP and will then add 2 voices (Mike and Mary) to the single voice that is supplied with XP (Sam). To check if you have SAPI installed, look for a voice in Control Panel's Speech Settings (Start -> Control Panel -> Speech -> Text To Speech). Please note that the PowerTalk cannot use the earlier SAPI 4, although it is apparently possible to have both SAPI 4 & 5 installed on the same machine.

Basic sound capabilities are required. Most PCs with a sound card or 'on board' AC'97 sound will need only the addition of a simple powered speaker(s). Older PCs, or those that can only produce simple 'beeps' trough an internal speaker, may require additional sound hardware. You can test your PC's sound capabilities with the 'Preview Voice' facility in the Control Panel's Speech settings.

Opening Presentations.
NB! - some people are experiencing errors when opening a presentation from the PowerTalk file dialog. Please right click in explorer and select 'Narrate with PowerTalk'.
There are a number of ways to get PowerTalk to narrate a PowerPoint Presentation (.ppt / .pptx file) or Slide Show (.pps / .ppsx file):
Note: ppt and pps files are identical except for the ppt/pps part of the filename, the difference being what happens when they are opened. A .ppt file may be be saved in PowerPoint as a .pps file or else a .ppt file can be simply renamed as a .pps.

1. Open a Slide Show. See below for details.

2. Right click on a Presentation or Slide Show and select 'Narrate with PowerTalk'.

3. Drag a Slide Show file onto a PowerPoint program shortcut.

4. Browse to a Presentation or Slide Show using the dialog that appears when launching PowerTalk from the Start menu. The initial folder used may be specified using the shortcut 'Start in' property or adding the folder name as a parameter.

5. Create a specific shortcut. Specify PowerTalk.exe as the target and the presentation file as a parameter(e.g. "C:\Program Files\PowerTalk\PowerTalk.exe" "MyShow.ppt").

By default PowerTalk will narrate Slide Shows when they are opened outside of PowerPoint (e.g. by double-clicking or right click and 'narrate' in Windows Explorer). Slide Show files may still be shown without narration by opening within PowerPoint or right-clicking on them and selecting 'show'. During installation there is an option to disable this feature and another option to enable it for Presentations. This behaviour may be changed at a later time by using the PowerTalk settings option in the startmenu (or as follows: open Windows Explorer (Windows key + E), select 'Tools' -> 'Folder Options' -> 'File Types', type 'PPS', select 'Advanced', select 'show' from the list (or 'open' for .ppt files) and then select 'Set Default').

Controlling Speech.

Text can be entered on a slide in either a single text box or split into multiple boxes and these are handled slighty differently.

The text in any single box is spoken continuously from top to bottom. Individual boxs are spoken in the order they are added to the slide. There appears to be no way to alter this and the way to force a different order is to create a new slide and copy the text boxes in the required order (hint: click on the box border and copy).

Animated text is spoken in the order that the animations play, waiting for each to complete before speaking the next. However if a number of animations are used within a single text box, PowerTalk waits for the first animation only and then speaks all the remaining text. You may want to break the text into separate boxes and animate each.

It is possible to specify the text spoken for images (and indeed any object including text) by entering Alternative Web Text for the image. This is done as follows: right click on the image, select 'format object' ('size and shape' in Office 2007), select the Web tab and enter the alternative text to be spoken (there may already be some alt text when images are cut and paste from web pages). If you enter a space then nothing is spoken at all.

It is also possible to have text spoken that is not visible on the slide, for example to provide narration in addition to the slide content. One way is to add some text to a slide that is one or more spaces, which is then not visible, and set the Alternative Web Text to be the text to be spoken. If you have slide notes that you would like read then these can be copied to the Alternative text. Other ways to make text invisible are to drag it off the slide or set the text colour to be same as the background (and make it behind other text) and then you do not need to set the Alternative text. It can be hard to reselect invisible text later in order to change it unless you pick a consistent placement (e.g top left of slide). One way is to drag a selection rectangle over the area where it is known to be.

Speech Options.

The voice used and the speed of narration can be changed with the settings in the 'Speech Settings' section of Control Panel (on the 'Text To Speech' tab). There is a PowerTalk startmenu item that opens these settings.

Windows XP comes with as single voice 'Sam'. The 'SAPI TTS components' download available in the Downloads section will add 'Mike' and 'Mary'. A range of additional SAPI 5.1 voices are available and examples include AT&T Natural Voices, Nuance RealSpeak, Neospeech and IBM ViaVoice

The first time that PowerTalk is run you may notice a small delay as it analyses your PowerPoint and Speech API installations.

PowerTalk is very simple to install and run if your machine meets the requirements. A couple of common problems are:

If when you run PowerTalk you get an error message box saying 'Call was rejected by callee' then make sure you close all PowerPoint windows before starting PowerTalk.

If you are are using Windows XP and getting pop-up errors indicating problems with SAPI please ensure that you have SAPI 5.1 and not SAPI 5.0.

If you have another problems or would like discuss PowerTalk with others you can post or email the PowerTalk group.

This software is Open Source Software, that is, non-proprietary and is issued under the GPL 2.0 licence. You are free to copy or modify it as you like as long as you do not use it as part of any proprietary software. If you make any changes we would be very interested to know about them so that we can include them into the main release.

The person for whom PowerTalk was created for submitted a review to Ability magazine. A subsequent article on PowerTalk and OATS also appeared.
There is a concise product summary available at the TechDis Accessibility Database.
Geetesh Bajaj has written a review and tutorial on his 'treasure trove' PowerPoint site ' Indezine'.

Several improvements have been made since it's inital release and details can be found in the Project News. This information is also available as the RSS feed (See introducing XML/RSS Feeds).

As PowerTalk is OpenSource Software you are encouraged to contribute your ideas or to help develop it. If you find PowerTalk useful you might also like to donate funds towards developing it and other OATS projects. There are a few ideas for enhancements and bug fixes that you might like to work on. PowerTalk is a SourceForge project.

If you find PowerTalk useful then please do concider donating to Full Measure's work. The Donate page makes it easy to contribute using a credit card or Pay Pal account.

PowerTalk does a good job of making any presentation more accessible by automatically speaking the text. It can narrate animated text as it appears and will also speak PowerPoint's 'Web Alternative Text' intended for Web Browser use. Thus apart from being an accessibility tool in its right PowerTalk can be used to test how a presentation will sound with a other tools such as screen readers.

There are many techniques and tools for creating truly accessible presentations. A good place to start research is Glenna Shaw's excellent and thorough article The Incredible, Accessible Presentation. The RNIB also have a page the explains some of the basics of presenting with PowerPoint.

Writing Text to Improve Synthetic Speech provides simple guidelines that can be applied when authoring text in order to maximize the quality of sythetic speech output.

Although the the speakers delivery is more important than the text on the slides there are general guides to writing clear English that will help make your message clear. MENCAP have a guide to Making your web site accessible for people with a learning disability that has much good advice on content creation. Writing Global English from Audience Dialog provides background and How to write Global English gives specific guidelines for writing to include people whose first language is not English. I think the principles should also apply when writing for those with learning difficulties and will help improve readability in general. Both dyslexic.com and Plain English Campaign have some great resources.

For some light relief you could read Edward Tufte's article on how PowerPoint corrupts. It is also available 'remixed' as a presentation. The opposite view is presented by 5 others.

PowerTalk was originally conceived as a solution to a specific need and also to demonstarate the power of Open Source software for Assitive Technology solutions. Open Source offers many advantages to users and these may be especially important to users of Assistive Technology. Some of the advantages are; low cost, reliability, fast access to changes or fixes and availability. 'Open Source' is also called 'Free', FOSS and FLOSS software.

The code was donated to the Speechmakers project. Speechmakers aims to provide flexible and low-cost solutions to enable people to communicate more easily with others. It uses the latest technology and research to provide solutions to individual needs. The flexibility and power of modern Computers is harnessed by using high quality and innovative software created by a team of developers, students and volunteers. Software is released under an Open Source licence, meaning that it is low cost and that changes can be made easily, for example if you would like new features or find bugs that need to be fixed.

PowerTalk will be a featured project in the OATS Open Source Assistive Technology Software project. OATS will make the great benefits of Open Source software readily available to Assistive Technology users.

PowerTalk clearly demonstrates how a small amount of custom scripting code can transform todays highly customisable applications to meet a user's specific requirements. I am keen to develop this idea into a service providing a repository of such programs and templates meeting specific needs. A key part could be an an active community of users providing requirments, ideas and discussion. If you are interested or have any ideas please contact me.

The Python program language was used to create PowerTalk. Python is a powerful, high-level, flexible and extensible language that is Open Source. It is a clean and easy to develop in and is fun! A large active community exists who have developed a massive range of high-quality library modules covering most conceivable programming tasks.

Ross Gravel for the original request and Ability Magazine for publishing it
Simon Judge for the Speechmakers Project concept, help, ideas, much support and bandwidth
Glenna Shaw for the 'get powertalk' graphic
Guido van Rossum and many, many others for Python
Mark Hammond for the Python Windows extensions and help with COM event problems
Gordon McMillan for the Python installer
Jordan Russell for the unrivalled Inno Setup
Bill Gates and Microsoft for Windows, PowerPoint and SAPI
Richard Stallman for the Free Software concept, GNU and all that has followed
DMOZ and Google for research tools
Jason Clifford for UKFSN for 'Free Software' friendly ISP and hosting services
Chilkat Software for 'ZIP 2 Secure EXE' used to create SAPI TTS installer
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Sentence length is indirectly related to sentence type, and is a good indicator of flow. Flow can be altered by adding, removing, lengthening, shortening, combining, or splitting sentences. Long sentences will be indicated by a red line on the graph. Sentences that flow poorly with their surroundings will be orange, and the source of the problem can often be found in a nearby sentence.

Word length is a minor contributor to overall flow, but even minor variations are signs of good rhythm.

This tab shows repeated words and phrases plus a wealth of other statistics.

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This is a measure of how frequently the passive voice is used. Consider revising your document if it scores over 100.

Prepositional Phrase Index

This is a measure of how frequently prepositional phrases are used. Consider revising your document if it scores over 100.

Automated Readability Index

This is an estimate of the minimum grade level required to understand the text. For more comfortable reading and better comprehension, aim three to five grade levels below the target audience's expected level of education. Popular novels aimed at American adults tend to be written in the 7th to 9th grade range, which mirrors the reading capability of the average American adult.
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Sentence length is a major contributor to the level of education required to read a body of text.

Sentence length standard deviation

This is a measure of the amount of variation in the length of a text's sentences. In texts that have broad appeal, this tends to fall between 50 and 90% of the average sentence length. You can increase this number by making long sentences longer, and short ones shorter.

Sentence deviation to length ratio

This is a measure of the sentence variety, and a major contributor to flow. Most novels score between 0.5 and 0.9, and popular ones often score near the high end of the range. You can increase this number by making long sentences longer, and short ones shorter.

Resubmit to see configuration changes take effect.

I know what I'm doing. Disable these hints.

Use this preset when you're only interested in the stats tab. Critique and Flow will be hidden.

This preset checks for common indicators of deception, either by lying or omission, and is based on the findings of this study. Areas with high concentrations of these indicators should be viewed with skepticism. Note that the presence or absence of these indicators does not guarantee that a statement is true or false, and that the study was done on spoken communications, so it might be more applicable to interviews and speeches. As always, use your brain.

A word used twice in a row may be a typo.

This will check for the internet's most frequently confused words and notify you if it looks like you misused one. It is experimental and probably the least reliable feature. Consult a dictionary when necessary.

Sentences starting with the same word

A word should not be used to start more than one sentence in a single paragraph.

It is considered poor style to place coordinating conjunctions at either end of a sentence. Placing a subordinating conjunction at the end of a sentence is against the rules.

Many people believe that prepositions don't belong at the end of a sentence, though Grammar Girl disagrees.
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A transitive verb is preceded by an auxilliary verb such as "be" or "get." It is the standard in scientific writing, but is frowned on in most other genres.

Example:

It is said that one day, passive voice will bring weakness to your prose.

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Words like "very" and "really" make sentences wordier and weaken your message. These can be deleted in almost all cases without affecting the meaning of the sentence.

Abstract words lack specificity and overusing them can make even simple concepts difficult to understand. There are times when abstract words are desirable or even necessary; it would be difficult to write about math or programming without mentioning variables or functions, but you should use more specific terms whenever possible.

Wordy and redundant phrases

These phrases make your writing more difficult to understand. In most cases, they can be replaced with one or two words, or even deleted.

These antiquated, arcane words and phrases will make your writing look like a contract.

Double negatives are almost always poor style.

They aren't bad in small quantities, but consider revising your document if more than 5.5% of its words are adverbs. Adverbs ending in "-ly" are considered the worst offenders.

They aren't bad in small quantities. A few of the words on this list can also function as other parts of speech. You have been warned.

In formal writing, the use of contractions is considered a fault.

Slang can add character to fiction, but should be avoided in formal writing

Example:

The boxer decked his opponent.

Profanity should not be used in formal writing outside of direct quotations.

These over-used, informal phrases should be avoided like the plague under most circumstances.

Example:

The critic's scathing review hit the nail on the head.

Similes and metaphors should be used sparingly. This option will detect most common types of similes.

Some people think that these substitutes for "said" are weak or obnoxious, especially if overused.

Using any form of "be" before an adjective weakens the description. Try rewriting the sentence without the unnecessary verb. This will give it a more lively feel, which improves the flow of the surrounding paragraph.

Example:

Bad:

Her dress was long, and it touched the floor.

Good:

Her long dress touched the floor.

Avoid using gender-specific pronouns in formal writing when the subject's gender is unknown.

Like abstract words, weasel words and phrases lack specificity. At best, they convey uncertainty. At worst, they can be used to "weasel out" of telling the truth in a straightforward manner. When checking a document that is speculative by nature, you might want to disable this detector.

According to this study, high concentrations of third person pronouns may indicate deception.

These words and phrases often show the author's bias.

Uncommon words will increase the document's reading difficulty.

An independent clause is a group of words that contains a noun and a verb, and could stand alone as a sentence. Every sentence has at least one, and any additional ones must begin with a comma or semicolon. If this app detects an overabundance of complex sentences, it probably means that they are missing punctuation.

Example:

Hot peppers burn my mouth, but I eat them anyway.
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A dependent clause is a group of three or more words that contains a noun and a verb, but can't form a sentence. They will usually be preceded by a subordinating word.

Example:

Since burritos taste good, I like to eat them.
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A sentence must have at least one noun and one verb. Anything that does not is a fragment, and if it occurs outside of dialog, it should probably be rewritten.

A complex sentence has one independent clause, and one or more dependent clauses. If this app detects an overabundance of complex sentences, it probably means you are missing punctuation. See the independent clause section for help with this.
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Compound-complex sentences

A compound-complex sentence has more than one independent clause, and one or more dependent clauses.
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Long sentences tend to be more difficult to read, making them good candidates for trimming or splitting. Alternatively, parallelism may be used to improve their readability, though this will not decrease the ARI score.

Add or subtract prepositional phrases and adjectives to modify your work's flow by changing sentence lengths.

Use the settings tab to tailor the stats and critique to your needs.

Flow is an important factor in reader engagement. Be sure to check it at the end of your polishing process.

Play the word association game in the tools tab when you have writer's block.

Need a writing prompt? Plug a word or phrase into the associator, and try to write a story using as many of the associated words as possible.

The critique tab highlights more than mistakes. Click highlighted text to get more information, and decide for yourself what the best course of action is.

When editing a large document, check it in smaller chunks to get fast responses.

Novelists and journalists might want to critique dialog separately or not at all. You can change how dialog is handled in the settings tab.

When you're only interested in one or two stylistic features, use the Blank Slate preset to turn everything else off.

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What is ATbar?

ATbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help users customise the way they view and interact with web pages. The concept behind ATbar is simple: One toolbar to provide all of the functionality you would usually achieve through the use of different settings or products.

ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, increase and decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use coloured overlays, readability and a dictionary to aid reading. Spell check forms and try word prediction when writing. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers.
ATbar can increase the accessibility of a website and offer a personalised user experience.
It is designed for those who may not have their assistive technologies to hand and need a quick way of accessing text on the screen with magnification and/or text to speech etc. It can help those with low vision, dyslexia and other reading difficulties, as well as those who may wish to just reduce the glare of black text on bright white backgrounds. It is not designed for regular screen reader users who need their assistive technology to access the computer as well as their browser.
There are three versions of the ATbar:

The download version stays available when you move between web pages and is made up of the standard functions.

The lite version acts in a similar way to a bookmark or favorite and has to selected each time you visit a new web page - it also has the standard functions.

The marketplace version allows you to build your own ATbar, by choosing the plug-ins to suit your needs then save the custom made bar as a bookmark.

Other software is available on a USB flash drive with an accessible menu system as a Portable Accessibility Toolkit and there is a desktop version of the ATbar on the download page.

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It's been a fabulous journey that has involved thousands of loyal users, a fantastic educational technology community, and great supporters. I thank everyone who has helped in any way to make Vocabulist better.

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61 free voices in iOS 12.

100+ premiums voices available through in-app purchase.

Offline: does not require Internet connection.

Synchronized Highlighting

Seeing the words smoothly synchronized with speech improves comprehension and knowledge retention. Auto-scrolling and full-screen, distraction-free view helps the reader focus.

Content

Read Anything

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EPUB (DRM Free)

DAISY Audio

DAISY Text

Plain Text

Web Page

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Load from Anywhere

Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive

Paper document using Voice Dream Scanner

iOS File Browser

Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote

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Any website

Local files on your device

Universally Accessible

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Reading Modes

Sleeper timer. Repeats. Word-by-word and sentence by sentence reading. Speed reading.

Audio Controls

Change voice, speed, pitch, pause duration. Custom pronunciation dictionary. Skip margin text and citations.

Visual Controls

Change font, font size, colors, line and character spacing, and margins.

Library Management

Organize documents and books in folders. Search, filter and sort. Reading list.

OCR

Scan documents or books using camera. OCR scanned PDF files. (Requires Voice Dream Scanner.)

Annotation

Set bookmark. Highlight text and add notes. Export notes.

Safari Extension

Save online articles and files directly from Safari.

iCloud Sync

Synchronize and backup your documents across all your devices.

Watch Support

Free companion Apple Watch app can play your reading list offline while not connected to iPhone.

See Detailed Feature List

Reviews

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“Voice Dream Reader is hailed by many as the best mobile text-to-speech (TTS) app. It has potential uses by those with physical and learning challenges as well as those without. Any student, for example, who struggles with comprehension and retention of written information could benefit.”

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2021 Apple Design Award

Apple

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Apple App Store

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Apple App Store

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Apple App Store

“App of the Week”

eSchool News

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AppleVis Community

Golden Apple

AppleVis

Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award

National Federation of the Blind

“Great on Apple Watch”

Apple App Store

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Featuring more than two million language nodes, this fascinating tool offers a truly interactive, engaging reference for word lovers of all ages and interests.

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Features & Benefits

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For Admins

For Teachers

For Students

Read Any Way You Like

Listen To Texts

Listen to anything you want to read with a fluent, natural sounding voice of your choice, and follow along to improve spelling and word recognition.

Customize Your Voices

Select your favorite voice and set your comfortable speech rate for each language to make it easier to understand the texts read to you.

Change How Text Looks

Personalize the text to make it easier read by customizing size, font, color, line spacing, and a number of other parameters.

Use Capti On Any Webpage

Listen To and Read Selected Text

Use Capti Chrome extension to select and listen to the content of any web page read out loud by natural sounding voices and follow along as needed.

Save Web Articles to Capti

Save the selected passage or the entire web page to the Capti playlist. Capti will strip out links and ads and save the main article content.

Supports Google Docs, Office 365, PDF

Use Capti Chrome extension to access Google and Office 365 Documents online; Canvas, Blackboard, and other LMSs; PDFs opened in the browser, etc.

Minimize Capti Window

Hide the window with the text and just listen to the content of the website.

Save Anything to Capti

Import Any Document

Import documents and images in any popular format, as well as web articles into the Capti Playlists to aggregate and organize the reading materials.

Import From the Cloud

Import documents from Google Drive, OneDrive, Office 365, iCloud Drive, Dropbox. Capti understands Google and Office 365 document formats.

Import From Your LMS

Import files from Canvas or BlackBoard. Support for more Learning Management Systems is comming soon.

Import From Book Libraries

Import books from Bookshare (500K+ titles) - a free library for students with print disabilities, or from Project Gutenberg (50K+ titles) - a free library of classical books.

Import Photos

Take a photo of text with your phone or import a scanned document to turn it into machine readable text with the best optical character recognition (OCR).

Import in Rich Text or Original Layout

Import documents in Rich Text format to personalize the way the text looks or import in the Original Layout format to view them exactly as the author intended. Enables "Write on Documents" feature.

Write, Annotate, and Highlight

Highlights, Bookmarks, and Comments

Enhance text by highlighting passages, bookmarking important locations, and adding notes. Share your annotations or export them to a separate document.

Write on Documents

Write answers or make a side note on an original-layout documents. Export your writing, as well as print or email document to share.

Build Vocabulary

Translation to 100+ languages

Use contextual translation for individual words and passages. Capti translates to over 100 languages with over 25 offering text-to-speech support.

English dictionary definitions

Look up the meaning of unknown words in context to get the most accurate definition, or provide custom definitions you like.

Word Challenge Game

Play the Word Challenge game to build vocabulary, increase reading comprehension, and practice context clues.

Personalized Word Lists

Build your own word list with definitions or translations and use it as a study guide. Share your word lists or export them into a separate document.

Lookup Words on Any Webpage

Use Capti Chrome extension to look up translations and definitions without leaving the web page you are viewing.

Assign Reading to Students

Share Your Content with Students

Share any content as playlists of tracks. A playlist can contain files of any type, web articles, books, and more.

Share Your Notes with Students

Any notes (comments, highlights, bookmarks, and more) that you take in a shared playlist will be visible to anyone with access.

Send Students a Link to Playlist

Make it easy for your students to find their assigned reading by sending them a link to a specific page in playlist.

Review Notes Taken by Students

You can review all notes taken by your students in playlists you shared with them.

Track Student Progress

Monitor student engagement with Capti analytics.

Access from Anywhere

Offline Support

Use Capti online or install it to use it offline, e.g., when there is no Internet or for exam accommodations.

Cross-Device Sync

Use Capti on any of your devices - your content will synchronize so you can conveniently switch among your devices.

Supported Browsers

Use Capti with with Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Supported Operating Systems

Use Capti on Chromebooks, Windows, Mac, and iOS. (Android online only)

Usability and Accessibility

Screen-Reader Accessibility

Use Capti with Jaws, NVDA, and VoiceOver - Capti is built from the ground up with screen-reader compatibility in mind,

Advanced Text Navigation

Navigate text by pages, headings, paragraphs, sentences, words, time, keywords, bookmarks, etc.

Feature Access Control

OCR

Disable use of Optical Character Recognition for all students or all users

Personal Purchases

Disable in-app purchases for all students or all users

Translation Lookup

Disable translation of text or individual words for all users

Definition Lookup

Disable definition of words for all users

Passwords

Disable password changing for all students

Easy Account Administration

Single Sign-On

Sign in to Capti with Google, Clever, or Facebook. Log in through Canvas or Blackboard using LTI integration.

Automatic Rostering

Import the roster of students, teachers, and classes from Clever, any Student Information System (SIS), or using LTI integration. Great for large accounts.

Manual Rostering

Import the roster of students, teachers, and classes from Google Classroom or a .CSV file. Manually manage everything. Great for small accounts.

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Read text aloud. PDF reading books speak text to voice, read it out loud

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Use Capti Voice to read books online and speak text. Read any book from Bookshare and Gutenberg with free text to speech. Read out loud PDF, DAISY, EPUB, DOC.