[senit] voice output writing aid

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

Hi David, John et alia,

I may be wrong but I don't think you can buy a Dana in this country anymore
- something to do with it not meeting EEC regulations. If it is still on the
Don Johnston website, things may have changed - Jamie Munro may be able to
supply the details on the current situation.

Kind Regards,

Ann McDevitt,
Independent IT and SEN Consultant

-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Liddle
Sent: 04 July 2008 08:15
To: davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk; senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senit] voice output writing aid

Hi David

How about the combination of an Alphasmart Dana, with voice card and Write
Out Loud To Go?

A combination available from Don Johnston
http://www.donjohnston.co.uk/catalog/wolworproc.htm 

However, at £399 for all the bits, it might actually work out as cheap to
get something like an Asus Eee PC laptop and choose a speech output
programme for that.

Cheers

John

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-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of david fettes
Sent: 03 July 2008 17:02
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk; sally millar
Subject: Re: [senit] voice output writing aid

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/sl4
0
> 
> 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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