| Aletta'sHappyReaderPage
This page comes with a character names Peedy (a MicroSoft Agent) to which I have added some of my scripting to make it a very friendly desktop helper to the neurological challenged. As a reader he speaks at a pitch and speed so far preferable to most testers with neurologically impaired hearing. Peedy uses the British language module, but those are settings which can be changed. The text balloon shows fonts at 28 points which makes reading along easier even without magnifying lenses. Peedy has the following options on his drop down menu:
Both the Microsoft speech software and the Lernhaut language modules come with help files and you'll find them user friendly. I used Bellcraft's MASH program to set the script for Peedy. Please give Peedy a try, he's been so helpful to me in keeping me reading, using clipboard for emails and shorter articles and the file reader for entire novels. Many books can be downloaded at no cost from www.gutenberg.org |
| Also for upload, mymedminder,
the MSAgent Genie with my reminder script,
or medminder2, a wizard named Merlin, just add him to your scheduler at whatever times you need reminding, and it will pop up on your computer at the designated times, or have both and alternate. All these come with voice recognition tie ins. The speech software is something I've been using as a private speech therapist, with considerable success. Once you have loaded the software from MicroSoft, just starting running through the setup process and it will ask you to read text into your microphone to learn your voice, promting you when it does not register, very therapeutic. The language models, through speech control (in your control panel) cand be used to add words and pronounciation/changes. There are many language models avaiable. If you have a specific need or want the charater to suit, let me know and I'd be happy to put it together for you, for the asking. If you have multiple characters already installed you could use this happyreader2, which is set to use the default character on your computer. Since I myself love alternatives,I happen to have Merlin all set up: happyreader3 |
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