Software+for+Digital+Text

Specialized Software:
SOLO by Don Johnston [] Start to Finish books []

Kurzweil Software [] Highlight of a local Kurzweil user [|Shelby Nurse and Kurzweil]

texthelp Read and Write Gold []

WYNN (What You Need Now) []

Additional Software:
List of resources to purchase Text to MP3 software

Mac converter text to MP3 @http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader.php

VLC Media Player http://vlc.us.com/best-media-player/vlc-media-player.php?brand=vlc.us.com&s=google&c=vlcuscom_bm2_bingadm_CS_PG_XB_WB_AT_SK&k={keywords}&pk=56-3

Dspeech software to read PDFs The free program, Dspeech (http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/) will open PDFs (with its PDF plugin) and save as MP3. It will run off of a flash/thumb drive. It will not work on locked PDFs. Once you have unzipped the PDF plugin, you must make sure that this file is inside the dspeech folder with the dspeech application. Then start up dspeech & open a PDF and the text will flow from the PDF into the Dspeech application window. NOTE: it will not convert image text from an image PDF into live text, but will extract the text from a live text PDF. Found on the QIAT listserve.

Microsoft eReader software []

Adobe Acrobat Reader []

Media Converters:
[] - Easy to use, convert WAV/MP3 files online for free without the need to download any software at all. There are a few sites that offer this service. The following site also converts a range of documents, video and picture formats - very useful!

[] - Very easy to use

[] Also can be purchased.

[] Download and install application

[] This is Windows only

[] Full version is $15.

Internet Browsers:
Click Speak (Firefox browser extension that adds text-to-speech,. students can hear web pages read aloud - Mac does not work. User built in Text to Speech under system preferences - speech) []

Accessibar (Firefox browser extension that adds visual accommodation tools and text-to-speech) []

Natural Reader (It is a free Win text-to-speech utility. When added to Adobe Reader, your computer can read PDF files aloud. When used with a web browser, the Internet "talks".) []

Built in Computer Accommodations:
==Your computer has many built in accessibility features. The computer can be customized for each individual. The links for further information are below. ==