Tag Archives: text-to-speech
Winner of Spectronics Blog comments competition
Posted in Latest News
Barbara Landsberg November 1, 2009
Barbara Landsberg November 1, 2009
As you may have been aware, Spectronics has been running a competition for anyone who posted a comment to the Spectronics Blog before October 30th 2009 to be in the draw to win a free copy of Texthelp Read&Write Gold Mobile USB version (worth $800 AUD/ $960 NZD). Congratulations to Jan Shand at Huntly College in NZ! You …
2009 Powered Up For Participation Conference
Posted in Events, Techniques & Tips, Tools & Resources, Workshops
Greg O'Connor October 21, 2009
Greg O'Connor October 21, 2009
The Powered Up For Participation Conference is being held this week in Bathurst and Dubbo, located in central western New South Wales. Powered Up For Participation Program – Bathurst Powered Up For Participation Program – Dubbo While I was unable to attend the conference in person, it has been great to have been able to deliver two workshops …
The Mac is back!
Posted in New Technologies, Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg September 30, 2009
Barbara Landsberg September 30, 2009
 Over the past two years, we have noticed a marked increase in the number of Apple Mac related enquiries coming in to Spectronics’ advisory, training and technical support teams. So it may be of interest to you to be aware of a couple of new text-to-speech programs now available for the Mac platform.
WriteOnline: Online writing support for upper primary and secondary school students
Posted in New Technologies, Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg September 25, 2009
Barbara Landsberg September 25, 2009
 WriteOnline is a new concept – offering an online writing support tool which allows students the option to access their work from school, home, anywhere! It has been developed by Crick Software as a logical progression for older students who are ready to move on from using Clicker 5 as their writing support tool.
2009 More Than Gadgets Conference – Part 1
Posted in Events, Techniques & Tips, Tools & Resources, Workshops
Greg O'Connor September 1, 2009
Greg O'Connor September 1, 2009
Hi Everyone What a great inaugural More Than Gadgets Conference last week in Perth. Practical, informative and challenging workshops and presentations were the order of the day. There was a great buzz amongst the participants as we explored the challenges presented to us when implementing assistive technologies in schools and beyond. The bar has certainly been set high …
Spectronics team en masse in Perth this week!
Posted in Events, Workshops
Barbara Landsberg August 24, 2009
Barbara Landsberg August 24, 2009
Just thought I’d post this note up in case you are in Perth or Fremantle and surrounds and were not aware that the Spectronics team is “in town” for the week. Originally it was just to be Greg O’Connor and Charlene Cullen – but Jane Farrall has now joined them too. Jane is helping out with presentations at …
Texthelp Certified Trainer Days for 2009 and 2010
Posted in Events, Workshops
Barbara Landsberg August 7, 2009
Barbara Landsberg August 7, 2009
Following on from the success of the Texthelp Australian Training Tour in May of this year, we are now offering three more full-day training sessions in Australia and New Zealand in 2009. These FREE workshops will give you the chance to participate in a full day BYO laptop hands-on session learning about the many features of the latest …
EXPO Workshop – Reading and Writing Tools
Posted in Events, Techniques & Tips, Tools & Resources, Workshops
Greg O'Connor July 6, 2009
Greg O'Connor July 6, 2009
 The workshop “Reading and Writing Tools for Students with Learning Disabilities” was presented today at the 2009 Special Education EXPO (6/7/09 – Education Development Centre, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, South Australia).
Photograph text on your mobile phone and hear it read aloud!
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, New Technologies, Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg July 6, 2009
Barbara Landsberg July 6, 2009
Another VERY cool new technology is CapturaTalk! This clever program allows your Window Mobile phone to take a photo of written text and then have it read aloud for you in a clear UK English voice! It will also read aloud text in documents on the phone – including emails and SMS messages received along with web pages visited.
