[rebel]

Is there software for the mac that will scan a page from a book and read it back through text-to-speech? I have a friend who has worsening eyesite and she wants to buy a PC because it has such software for scanning text and turning it into voice. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[tsailing]

Your friend can get a OCR software that scans paper and convert it to text then use the text to speech software that included in Mac OS to read the text back to her.
(http://www.apple.com/macos/speech/)
My company makes OCR software and we are about to come out a Mac version. If she is interested, I can send her a beta copy of our Mac OCR software to try.

I hope this helps.

[VRL]

This was my response to the same question in the Lounge
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Some useful info here. http://www.eskimo.com/~pristine/disabilities.html

Some software that may be of use (?) can be found at: http://www.ECNet.Net/users/gnorris/place.shtml http://mac.tucows.netcon.net.au/preview/45410.html
(If this link doesn't work, just go to tucows and search for "HearIt".) http://www.stazsoftware.com/YSpeak.htm http://www.sensiva.com/index.jsp?L=1 (coming soon, they say) http://www.scansoft.com/products/

BTW, I came across much of this info when visiting this site: http://macfreebees.tripod.com/

Hope any/all of this is useful.

[jsteinborn]

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