Susan,

We got the grant two years ago.  Do you know how much they are charging to purchase the support agreement after the one year free grant is up? We talked about purchasing it, but didn't have enough interest.  Now, suddenly, there is interest!  

We've kept using it without the support, but we don't get updates, either.  Apparently, it can also be used at home by students if the school pays for the support.

Joanne

Joanne Finnegan
Technology Integration Specialist
Chittenden East Supervisory Union
(voice) (802) 858-1728
(fax) (802) 899-1059
 


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>>> Susan Briere <[log in to unmask]> 5/6/2008 2:58 PM >>>
BJ,
 
Premier Assistive has text to speech apps:
http://www.readingmadeez.com/home.html. They have a grant program that
awards their Accessibility Suite to schools free of charge. There are a few
text to speech apps included in the Accessibility Suite. If you look at
their page that compares bundles it lists all the apps in the suite:
http://www.readingmadeez.com/products/comparebundles.html. The grant
application is straightforward and easy to fill out:
http://www.readingmadeez.com/education/grant.html. The grant also included
additonal Cesptral Callie voices - quality was better than MS Mary.
 
Susan

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From: School Information Technology Discussion
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:14 PM
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Subject: text to speech


I am researching text to speech programs for our su.   Is there any out
there that people are using they'd like to reccomend?  Has anybody used the
following programs/pen's?


*	NaturalReader:  The free version uses microsoft voices, but they do
have some payed natural voices which are nice. 


*	http://www.naturalreaders.com/ 


*	I downloaded the Microsoft Mary and L&H voices which are much better
then the sam voice.


*	ReaderPen by WizCom:  Is anybody using this? It looks cool but is it
worth it. 


*	http://www.wizcomtech.com/Wizcom/products/product_info.asp?fid=229 



Bjorn Behrendt
Proctor School District
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