looking for either a screen reader or audiobook rescource
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Hi all-gillian densmore here-
I'm not sure what the right word or phrase is i'm looking for something that can reed kindel ebooks maybe play audiobooks, possibly some school based forums as well for a variety of reasons reading text is while somewhat doable (made it so far in school-by kind of faking it)-however this is less than ideal, i'm not sure what the right phrase is to find a doo-dad to compliment my meeger reading skills that could read some text to me to better fascilate future sucess in and out of school-however I don't know what that kind of thing might be called or what rescources exist (ie where to find them etc.) so are I thought Iask the friam mailing lists brilliant collective minds if anyone knows where to find those kinds of stuffs. Any and all help apreciated! I'm on a PC with winderz (version 7). ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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There's a free Kindle reader for Windows that you can download. Can't remember where I got it, but Google will tell you.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi all-gillian densmore here- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com The World Happiness Meter YourSongCode.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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Hi Gil. A stunt I use may be of help: text-to-audio. I'm not sure what the windows version is but on the Mac "say" lets you "hear" the text you hand to it.
So I listened to your email via 1 - Copy to pasteboard.
2 - pbpaste | say # pass the pasteboard to "say" It does a good enough job, makes everyone sound like stephen hawking! I use it for literally hours of text while working out. -- Owen
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi all-gillian densmore here- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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Awsome thanks for the help the kindle thing is a great step-I'm playing around with NVDA nvda project for reading e-mail in gmail- and found two tools make reading my email pleasent again: "free natural reader"-and balaboka--those are free though I forget where I found them. There's some promising looking ones I found through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers "clickhear" and "readhear" i'll try out next. I found I was actually able to start understanding some adobe stuff using the kindle voice-to-text with some kindle books I got.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi Gil. A stunt I use may be of help: text-to-audio. I'm not sure what the windows version is but on the Mac "say" lets you "hear" the text you hand to it. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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