[senit] Talking word processors

I too will be interested in replies. I did an email topic with 2 groups

WordTalk is easily configured with keyboard controls within MS Word
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/html/onlinedocs.html
It is simple and works perfectly. 

Though Click-Speak does not have keyboard controls for TTS in Firefox, the 
FireVox add-in does
http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/tutorial/tut1.html 

Hope this helps 

Ira David Socol
Special Education Technology Scholar
CEPSE
College of Education
Michigan State University
socolira at msu.edu
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/ 

Sally Paveley writes: 

> I too will be interested in replies.  I did an email topic with 2 groups 
> in different schools last term (they emailed each other but as I was 
> teaching both groups it was easy to make sure there was something 
> appropriate waiting in their mailboxes each week.) One of the groups had 
> several switch users. Although not ideal I used Writing Environments in 
> Writing with Symbols to enable the students to create messages which we 
> then copied and pasted into emails.  Did the same thing in reverse for 
> emails that were received.  I also created PowerPoints with the groups so 
> they could see pictures of each other.  Again I added text to the 
> PowerPoints by copying and pasting captions they created using WWS. I also 
> recorded their voices or talkers in some of the PowerPoints and recorded 
> WWS reading back their writing on others.  It all worked quite nicely but 
> more elegant solutions would have been even better. 
> 
> Sally Paveley
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Walter" 
> <richardwalter at ntlworld.com>
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:07 PM
> Subject: [senit] Talking word processors 
> 
> 
>> Hi
>> I'm trying to find out about simple speech feedback from the computer.
>> Talking word processors and text readers.
>> A simple talking email program and talking web browser. 
>> 
>> It has to have a simple interface and it must be keyboard driven and not 
>> mouse.
>> It must be capable of not read menus and toolbars just the main pages 
>> text. 
>> 
>> I have been busy looking but most things seem too complex. 
>> 
>> Richard Walter 
>> 