The new Kindle is still way out of my price range, though of course I’m still craving one. This news took a bit of the edge off of that craving, since I regularly load my MP3 player with the sounds of a computerized voice reading common-domain texts.
Amazon.com will let copyright holders opt out of having their books
read aloud on the company’s Kindle 2 book reader, in an apparent
concession to concerns raised about the device’s text-to-speech
feature.
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I have in fact gotten a Kindle. There are other, much cheaper ways to get computers to read text; all the recent Macs have free built-in text-to-speech, but you’d probably need special software to highlight each word (which I imagine would be most useful to your students). I’m sure there’s an instructional technology person on your staff who’d be able to show you what kind of tools are available for your students.
I teach children with dyslexia. the text to speech option would open up a new world for them to be independent of having books read to them. I would like more info on text to speech kindle with PC