Give or take a little, but approximately 10% of people in the world have some degree of “print impairment”, meaning people with visual impairments, dyslexia, or motor disabilities which can seriously affect their ability to read. This is not new. Wha...
Text-to-speech (TTS) is a very popular assistive technology and getting quite well-known in the digital publishing industry. Software that enables a computer or mobile device to read the words on the screen out loud to the user has been around in var...
An audiobook is an audio recording of a book being read aloud, while text-to-speech (c) software is an app using technology that speaks aloud digital text such as books, news articles, magazine articles and websites on a computer or mobile device. Au...
When it first appeared in educational circles as a potential teaching tool, some felt that using text-to-speech educational technology to help struggling readers was sort of cheating. More like a crutch. Fortunately, as teaching methods evolve and te...
Text-to-speech (TTS) is an assistive technology. Briefly, assistive technology (AT) is considered any device, piece of equipment or system that helps a person with a disability work around his or her challenges so he or she can learn, communicate and...
For people who make their living with words, and for businesses who want to communicate with their customers, Text-to-Speech technology is a fantastic tool. Writers, bloggers, editors and content producers are discovering that Text-to-Speech makes pr...
