SETSIG UDL Playground

An interactive, multimedia representation of different search topics organized and summarized from the web.

Safe and simple blogs for your students.

Create Flash-like animations using community art or your own.

"ClipSpeak is a portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool with a minimal user interface that speaks text copied to the clipboard. It is compatible with all SAPI5 speech synthesizers, and can also be used to convert texts to MP3 files."

"A free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter."

Firefox add-on. "FoxVox will speak any text you highlight in a web page. FoxVox can also create audiobooks in mp3, ogg, and wav formats. You can now easily turn your blogs and articles into podcasts. FoxVox now supports speech in many different languages."

Reading with a simple interface - CLiCk, Speak is designed to be as easy to use for sighted users as possible. The interface is completely mouse driven; there's no need to remember any key combinations. Reading through a page is as simple as placing the cursor and hitting the GO button; reading a selection is as easy as highlighting the text and hitting the SPEAK button.

"Highlight the text to read aloud, and select "Start Speaking Text" from the right-click menu. If you just want to make it read out single word, you don't really need to Highlight the word, because SpeakingFox picks up the word under cursor automatically."

"DSpeech is a TTS (Text To Speech) program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user. It is specifically designed to quickly and directly provide the functions and improved practical usefulness that are requested by this kind of program. In the meantime, the invasiveness and resource consumption is minimal"

"Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys."

"PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images"

"SpokenText lets you easily convert text into speech. Record (English, French, Spanish or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically. Download your reccordings as .mp3 or .m4b (Audio Book) files (in English, French, Spanish and German) of any text content on your computer or mobile phone. Record books, articles,web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format. So that you can listen while you commute or exercise. It is also a great way to check your writing for grammar and spelling errors. "

"SSReader is a free, large font reader for OS X that speaks text files aloud and displays the text stanza-after-stanza, simultaneously. Although this reader was created to assist those with visual impairments, it can be used by anyone"

"Turn readers into listeners, and transform your blog into a high quality, ad-supporting broadcast that can vastly expand your audience reach! Automatic podcast generation "Near-human" quality text-to-speech Listen Button feature deployed in next to no time for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, BlogEngine.NET and Terapad platforms"

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages."

Free online creation tools, including an image editor, music creator, audio editor, image markup, and screen capture.

"The Assistive Technology Blog is a publication of the Virginia Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at VCU"

Animoto allows students and teachers to create short and engaging movies.  Upload pictures, video, and music and allow Animoto to mix the content.  Students can demonstrate their knowledge using this creative tool!

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