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Extension for firefox that adds a talking toolbar

This video shows how text reader software - which is really meant as a way to accommodate for a decoding delay or disability - can also be powerful for children learning how to read.  In this video

This video shows how text reader software - which is really meant as a way to accommodate for a decoding delay or disability - can also be powerful for children learning how to read.  In this video

This video shows how text reader software - which is really meant as a way to accommodate for a decoding delay or disability - can also be powerful for children learning how to read.  In this video, the first-graders are using Clicker 5 software, which is a talking word processor.  Note how the students learn to use the text-to-speech feature independently to help them learn to read the sentence.

This free plug-in enables text in any Microsoft Word document to be read aloud. As a useful bonus, WordTalk also comes with a talking spell checker and thesaurus. The simplicity of WordTalk's toolbar makes it highly accessible, and the toolbar's functions are easy to configure for individual preferences. To further enhance accessibility, the software comes pre-programmed with keyboard commands. (--from Paul Hami's blog)