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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