Text to Speech

We have spent a good amount of time talking about text to speech in class.  It is so important because some students struggle with writing.  The way that they write shouldn't hold them back from the ideas that they have to be written into amazing pieces of work.  My daughter doesn't have good hand control and I'm not sure if she will ever write, but she can click on pictures on her iPad.

Clicker 7 is a great product that helps students with text to speech.  Not only does it write what is spoken, but it also reads it back.  It even has a word predictor.  This can even read the word predictors so the students will be able to know which is the word they are looking for to go into their sentence.  Pictures can also be inserted.  Check out this product in the video below!!  Here's the website to check it out http://www.cricksoft.com/us/products/clicker/home.aspx

Another great product is Ginger Translate Software.  THIS IS A FREE PRODUCT TO DOWNLOAD!  This product works with your Word documents.  It can read your phrases that you have selected.  It helps with grammar mistakes too!  This differs from the regular grammar in Word because it works with larger sentences.  Here's a tutorial on how to use this software.