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December 20, 2005

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN--The following four paragraphs are excerpts from a story in Monday's Grand Rapids Press

Famous electronic actors such as C3PO of "Star Wars", HAL of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and most of the Stepford wives make talking machines seem commonplace.

Despite flaws in realism and pronunciation, text-to-speech software is still very helpful to many people. It's great for people with vision or reading disabilities, those who can't easily read monitor screens and would rather listen to words read to them.

Or, are you sick of staring at your computer? Do you want to lay on the couch, eyes closed, as your computer reads you the latest news from the Internet? Can do. Just don't expect to be sung gently to sleep, as computer-synthesized voices are the exact opposite of "soothing."

Use free text-to-speech reader software to give your computer something to read: An e-book, a Web site or any text on your computer will work fine.

Entire article:
"Let your computer read to you" (Grand Rapids Press)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/1220c.htm

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