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...
It is very important to make sure that any digital course materials used by educators and students are properly accessible to people with disabilities and special needs. There are certain questions to get answered to make the right decisions about wh...
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...
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...
Text-to-speech systems, also known as TTS, were first developed to aid the visually impaired by offering a computer-generated spoken voice that would “read” text to the user. TTS software in general is considered an assistive technology tool that can...
