Easy Speak is a keyboard based text to speech program for people who have difficulty speaking. It includes smart word and phrase prediction to help speed up text input that can then be spoken. It uses natural sounding text-to-speech British English Acapela voices: Lucy and Graham.
To start writing the word Hello, with word prediction I start typing h. This generates a list of the 4 most likely words I use that start with h: have, his, her and him. Typing he generates her, here, help, head and hel generates help, hell, hello and helpful. Each time I choose a word its ranking increases, making it more likely to be predicted next time, so over time my list of predicted h words would be different to yours. You can choose to have words or phrases predicted and switch between them as you type.
You can easily edit the dictionary (over 5,000 words) or phrase list adding or deleting your own words as well as phrases.
If you want capitalised words you will need to add them as additional words. You can also save 4 favourite phrases that are always offered before you start typing.
Prediction can also be useful for people who have trouble spelling certain words. Word and phrase lists can be reset to default settings if needed.
You can paste text from SMS messages, emails and the internet etc. You can also change the speed and volume of the voice within the program.
This app have proven very beneficial for students with dyslexia as they are able to have predicted text which provides accurate spelling and will read the text back to them so they can check that the text they have written is correct. When the text is read back, it is also punctuated, therefore, if the student has not put punctuation into the text, they will hear its absence when the device reads their text to them.
To start writing the word Hello, with word prediction I start typing h. This generates a list of the 4 most likely words I use that start with h: have, his, her and him. Typing he generates her, here, help, head and hel generates help, hell, hello and helpful. Each time I choose a word its ranking increases, making it more likely to be predicted next time, so over time my list of predicted h words would be different to yours. You can choose to have words or phrases predicted and switch between them as you type.
You can easily edit the dictionary (over 5,000 words) or phrase list adding or deleting your own words as well as phrases.
If you want capitalised words you will need to add them as additional words. You can also save 4 favourite phrases that are always offered before you start typing.
Prediction can also be useful for people who have trouble spelling certain words. Word and phrase lists can be reset to default settings if needed.
You can paste text from SMS messages, emails and the internet etc. You can also change the speed and volume of the voice within the program.
This app have proven very beneficial for students with dyslexia as they are able to have predicted text which provides accurate spelling and will read the text back to them so they can check that the text they have written is correct. When the text is read back, it is also punctuated, therefore, if the student has not put punctuation into the text, they will hear its absence when the device reads their text to them.
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