[senco-forum] Acceleread Accelerwrite

Martin Miles came out to Dubai to carry out some training on Acceleread
Accelewrite some years ago.  We have used it since and find it excellent.
It really helps kids to make the link between speech and print.

Philippa

On 7/24/07, Mmilesep at aol.com <Mmilesep at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 24/07/2007 09:15:30 GMT Daylight Time,
> williamgraham at blueyonder.co.uk writes:
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> Has  anyone used this? I bought the manual earlier last term but am
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> confused about it - even setting up Clicker 5 was something I
> didn't  master.
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> Any tips? Does it work?
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> Lorraine
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> Commercial interest declared.
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> Lorraine
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> All you need is a word processor which "speaks" whatever you enter as soon
> as the space bar is pressed. It should also speak the whole sentence after
> a
> full stop in entered. Clicker is one such piece of software as are
> Textease
> and WriteOutLoud. There are others. You will need to follow the software
> instructions to set up the speech facility. Clicker is fairly
> straightforward. I
> think you have to go into options and then "Speech" to put a tick in the
> "speak
> words" and "speak sentences" boxes. If you click on the grid icon on the
> right  of the top toolbar you can make the whole screen the wordprocessor.
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> Once you have set up the speech use it in the way explained in our
> Acceleread manual.
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> Does anyone know of software which will offer this type of speech facility
> which can be downloaded for free?
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> Martin
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