On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 16:27 -0400, Daniel Howard wrote: > Our special needs, Kindergarten, and first grade teachers are asking me > for the following Linux apps to use on our school wide K12LTSP systems: > > 1. A talking word processor (Windoz app: Talk out loud): speaks the > words as the students type them on the screen in the word processor > > 2. A predictive word processor (as students type words, it gives them > typical choices to complete the words) > > 3. A talking screen reader, so that younger students can take tests like > those in Accelerated Reader by having the questions read to them. > Currently, parent volunteers come in to do this, but I know that at > other Atlanta Public Schools where parent volunteers are few and far > between, a computer-spoken version of online tests would be extremely > useful. http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ Java based and uses FreeTTS speech synthesizer (on Linux). It also supports MathML! It's available on Mac, win and Linux. It has been released under the GPL license. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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