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Remote Desktop turns a new page in accessibility with Window-Eyes
A new era has dawned with the release of the latest text-to-speech software, enabling remote access to computers with speech. Thanks to the continual enhancements of Windows Remote Desktop, bandwidth limits and speech synthesis itself, GW Micro and Freedom Scientific have now refined the capability to cause the spoken text from a remote machine to…
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Intel announces the New Intel® Reader!
Intell announces the New Intel® Reader! Read all the Intel Reader news New Intel® Reader Transforms the Printed Word Printed text into audio: quickly and easily There has never been a mobile device quite like the Intel® Reader. Such convenient access to the printed word can be life changing for people with vision or reading-related…
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A Solution for the Dreaded Website Visual Security Cappture Code
Thank you Solona! At last, a potential solution has been found to the nasty visual verification scripts that keep popping up on sites of all size. Introducing Solona: http://solona.net/ Now, when ever you find a website without the audible touring code, you can have a live volunteer read the capture code and go merrily on…
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User Groups for Text-to-Speech software – screen readers & speech synthesis
Anyone familiar with speech synthesis software, commonly known as screen readers, should know that text-to-speech is not a fail-proof technology despite all the improvements that have been made over the years. Even if most of the time content on the PC is conveyed effectively, glitches of one form or another are bound to occur. Even…