This month our customer Geoff called in looking for help for a client with cerebral palsy. He was looking at Dragon NaturallySpeaking software to assist in transcribing speech into the computer. Geoff's client still needed something to speak the text back to him so that he could fully function on the computer without assistance. He was using the built-in Narrator text to speech on his PC and was frustrated with its errors on many words and the inability to work with Internet Explorer.The client wanted his emails read aloud to him before sending to ensure proper spelling and grammar.
Although the major operating systems do come with text to speech functionality, the capability is usually limited and doesn't provide the robust features to allow full use of the computer. EnableMart carries a bundle that includes Dragon NaturallySpeaking and ClaroRead Plus, which includes text to speech functionality, for users who need to speak and have text spoken back to operate a computer. Claro and Dragon work together out of the box giving you the ability to type and proofread word documents and emails, have PDFs read aloud, and more. Claro features a PDF reader that converts your scanned documents to a Word document that it then reads aloud. Claro also has a range of voices to choose from instead of the robotic voices of Microsoft's text to speech software.
People with disabilities that affect motor skills no longer need a teacher or assistant to use Microsoft Office or the Internet - Dragon and Claro provide all the necessary tools to communicate with the computer.