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Entries Tagged as 'Text and Speech'

GhostReader from ConvenienceWare

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

GhostReader (formerly TextParrot) reads text aloud with high quality voices and optional word-by-word highlighting. FromĀ  ConvenienceWare, a part of AssistiveWare, which makes more fully featured accessibility software and utilities for people with disabilities

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Tags: Ages 03-06 years · Ages 06-09 years · Ages 09-12 · Audio · Customizable · Keyboard · Linguistic · Little or No Reading · Reading · Teens and Adults · Text and Speech · Tools · Tools & Productivity · Universal Design · Writing

VoiceThread

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

VoiceThread is an awesome tool for creating and sharing annotated online slideshows that you have to experience for yourself. Make your own slideshows or browse what others have done.
You can interact by recording or typing comments directly in others’ slide shows and then listen or read what others have said, which creates a non-linear conversation [...]

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Tags: Active Hands-on · Ages 03-06 years · Ages 06-09 years · Ages 09-12 · Art · Audio · Best of the Catch · By Subject · Clean Screen · Customizable · Interactive · Language Arts · Linguistic · Logical · Multicultural · Multilingual · Music · Musical Rhythmic · Online Activities · Open-ended · Project-based · Reading · Reflective · Social · Social Studies · Switch Access · Teens and Adults · Text and Speech · Tools · Tools & Productivity · Touch Screen or Tablet · Visual Spatial · Writing

Starfall Reading

September 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Starfall is one of the best sites for early reading and literacy, with online stories that offer audio support as needed, a fun, enticing interface, and supportive activities and printables. Multiple levels, with numerous stories and activities at each level.
Starfall was created by the family behind Blue Mountain Cards, one of the earliest online [...]

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Tags: Active Hands-on · Ages 03-06 years · Ages 06-09 years · Animation · Audio · Best of the Catch · Clean Screen · Guided Learning · Hands-on Ideas · Illustrations · Interactive · Language Arts · Linguistic · Movies · Multicultural · Musical Rhythmic · No Ads · Online Activities · Open-ended · Parent Teacher Info · Printables · Reading · Reflective · Scoring or Feedback · Simple · Social · Social Studies · Standards-based · Stories · Text and Speech · Touch Screen or Tablet · Universal Design · Visual Spatial · Writing