Hi Jackie,
Best free screen reader at the moment is NVDA.
http://www.nvda-project.org/
TextAloud maybe useful.
http://www.nextup.com
HTH.
All the best
--
Andrew
Secrets That We Keep Audio Book by David Caldwell:-
http://www.secretsthatwekeep.com/mainindex.php?code=006
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Jackie Cairns
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:32 PM
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help required please?
Thanks Ray, I'll forward these links.
He mentioned a free screen reader too. Would Thunder be any help in the
scenario he is looking for does anyone know?
Thanks.
Jackie
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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:22 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help required please?
Jackie, first off there's
www.blindcooltech.com
There stuff's all spoken reviews.
How's about the Soundings Magazine:
www.soundings.org
There interviews are very well recorded on the whole so no problems
understanding what's being said.
Cheers,
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
Jackie Cairns
Subject: [access-uk] Help required please?
Hi List
The tutor of the online course I am doing in Sports Journalism has
sent me the request pasted below. Does anyone have any suggestions I
could pass onto him please?
The info he is looking for is below my signature.
Many thanks for any help.
Jackie
I wondered if I could pick your brains? We are developing online
shorthand training for journalists, and I have been recording
dictation passages as voice
files, which we send as email attachments. This works quite well.
But I wondered - do you know any good sites where there are audios or
podcasts etc containing passages of people speaking? It doesn't really
matter what
the passages are about, or how long - though if you new any shorthand
dictation sites this would be wonderful!
We've searched the web high and low, with limited results ofher nthan
BBC news-type podcasts - but it occured to me that there might be
facilities for the
blind that we may not have heard of?
Or - are there any good, free screen readers available to download -
so that we could send people text, which could be read to them -
though preferably
the students would be able to select the speed at so-many words per
minute.
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