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really useful online dictionary and more with audio!

Very useful online dictionary. The audio feature could be very helpful for students

"Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere) training Web site, made possible by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services. This comprehensive site provides information and instruction on providing effective library and information services to students with disabilities. While the site's main target audience is school librarians, we believe it will be a valuable resource for public and academic librarians, general and special educators, administrators, parents, and their communities. The site contains five self-paced learning modules, jam-packed with useful information in a variety of formats (text, video, photos, graphics, audio over PowerPoint and more). You will find information to read, videos to view, games to play, learning exercises to challenge you, and quizzes to assess your learning. You can take notes along the way and save them to your profile. The site also has the option of allowing a person to register for the training as an individual or for instructors, supervisors or administrators to register their groups or classes for pre-service education or in-service learning."

options for free text to speech tools

generates a variety of background noises. This might be a great tool to share with students in your classroom. (Perhaps you can play some white noise from the site during independent work time.) The site can even generate oscillating noise and it also has a sleep timer.

If taking notes isn't quite your style, you can import conversations, interviews, lectures, or any other voice recording into free service VoiceBase, which will transcribe them and make them searchable. VoiceBase acts as your personal and public voice recording database. No matter what your recordings-phone conversations, interviews, or presentations-you can import them into VoiceBase and it will transcribe them for you. Once it's done, you can edit the transcription manually for any errors. You can then search the database (either limited to your own recordings, or including public content) for words within the transcriptions. It will highlight your search terms so you can go straight to the part of the recording or transcription that you need-perfect for condensing and extracting quotes from an interview, or for finding important points in a lecture. Right now, you get two hours of storage for free, but you can upgrade to more for a small fee. Hit the link to check it out. If you're an Evernote user, be sure to check out similar service Voice2Note for Evernote integration, too.

this might be useful for special ed students.

very simple site for text conversion to speech.