Hi Peeter, I agree with you. I just don't want people rushing out to
get this thing thinking they can throw their screenreaders in the trash.
On the other hand, many people just need a little help with their
reading or would like to do it in a more relaxed way and do not use
screen readers so this is good.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Verhoeven" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: [webwatch] Reader's Pal #1 in free Readin with
Text-to-Speech support
Hi David,
The ulity has full keyboard support.It is a pitty, that it has no menu
feedback.
Reader's Pal is reading software not screen reader software.
There are a llot of people using very simple magnification utilities.
With
those utilities it is difficult to read large text documents.
There are also expensive reading software programs. Most of them can
also
read aloud scanned text, but those programs are very expensive. What is
very nice, is that Reader's Pal is free and may be good enough for a lot
of
people.
Regards Peter Verhoeven
Internet : http://www.magnifiers.org (the Screen Magnifiers Homepage)
At 09:08 16-11-2001 -0500, you wrote:
>useful for us perhaps but not sufficient. for the audio part, you
still
>need a sound card. with most modern screen readers, even though they
>come bundled with speech engines, it is not necessary to use a sound
>card but a speech synthesizer which admittedly can cost a lot more than
>a
>sound card but some platforms do not support sound cards these hardware
>speech synthesizers can suffice. Still though, it is not a bad thing.
>I have a question though. Most of the programs like this that I have
>seen seem to require a mouse even to have the text read aloud or some
>non feedback keyboard way of using them does this requirement exist for
>this utility? Also, there is still the issue of starting the computer
>and launching the program. If I have it load at start up, can I have
it
>indicate to me what is going on?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Verhoeven" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>;
><[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:34 AM
>Subject: [webwatch] Reader's Pal #1 in free Readin with Text-to-Speech
>support
>
>
>Hi,
>
>What do you think of a program 169 KB in size, that reads aloud ascii,
>clipboard an HTML files to you?
>A program, that lets the users select their own background and
>foreground
>colors?
> A program, that can display the text word-by-word, multiple words by
>multiple words and screen by screen?
>A program, that let you set your reading speed?
>And important a program that is free?
>
>Readers's Pal is such a program. Reader's Pal is so small, because it
>uses
>the resources that is already on most computers (Visual Basic Runtime
5,
>Microsoft Text-to-Speech adn Internet Explorer 4 or higher).
>
>Reader's Pal runs on Windows 95 and higher.
>
>It is useful for those people who have not the money to buy an
expensive
>screen reader of screen magnifier, people who get tired eyes from
>reading
>on a computer monitor, but sometimes is also a good addition to your
>screen
>reader or magnifier.
>
>More information can be found at:
>frames : http://www.magnifiers.org
>no frames http://www.magnifiers.org/main2.html
>
>Regards Peter Verhoeven
>Internet : http://www.magnifiers.org (The Screen Magnifiers Homepage)
>
>
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