The Family Center on Technology and Disability

Re:Working with culturally diverse families

This message was posted by Bridget on Jul 24, 2009.

Wow! I didn't know Premier and RW Gold had those capabilities. I will have to check them out. On a similar note we've used ConvenienceWare's Ghost Reader (http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader.php) to take Spanish text and convert to an audio file using the high quality Spanish voice and then send to itunes. We do a little formating to get the right pauses and phrasing in but it sounds wonderful. It's been a way to make our Spanish literature accessible. There are a variety of other language voices you can purchase to use with Ghost Reader. Just to clarify it does not convert English text to another language but if you have text in another example, in this case Spanish, it converts your text to an audio file that you can play on a portable player or on the computer in a program like iTunes.