[senit] voice output writing aid

From: sally millar <sally.millar at ed.ac.uk>

yes it was the lightwriter not the explosive sounding dynamite!
however as you say expensive, is there nothing like a neo or
other cheap typing keyboard that has speech synth included?
david

--- On Thu, 3/7/08, sally millar <sally.millar at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: sally millar <sally.millar at ed.ac.uk>
> Subject: voice output writing aid
> To: davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk, senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Date: Thursday, 3 July, 2008, 2:09 PM
> Are you perhaps thinking of the DynaWrite, see
> http://www.dynavox.co.uk/  (Products > DynaWrite)
> 
> Or the very nice LightWriter, see
> http://www.toby-churchill.com/products/text-speech/keyboard-lightwriters/sl40
> 
> not cheap, not for everyone, but very very good if needed
> 
> Sally Millar
> *******
> 
> >A colleague has asked about the usefulness of the Neo
> >http://www.alphasmart.co.uk/neo/
> >for SLD school English lessons.
> >I would have thought it would only benefit the most
> able so relatively few students. However it possibly has a
> text size of about 60 point. I don't think it has
> speech output which is a shame unless anyone knows
> different ?or
> >is there a similar low cost typing tool that does have
> speech output.
> >(I recall something like a dynamite text based voca but
> don't think that was cheap)
> >thanks
> >David
> >
> >     
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