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Text to Speech Programs

Text to Speech software is now becoming very big in the classroom. Students are able to go to free websites and copy in a document and have it read to them. Tumble books is an online library where you can download books and have them read to you. A lot more schools and teachers are using this in their classroom. Teachers with computers use this technology by downloading the books that they are going to use in class to the computer. They download them so that when the other students are reading silently that a student who has difficulty reading can go to a computer to have the book read to them. Students have been very excited by the new technology. Teachers comment that a lot of students that would normally not want to read are starting to become students that like to read. Students say that it helps them a lot and that school work is not as challenging as it used to be with the use of the text to speech software. The teachers can see this happening by the higher scores that are coming from the students who are using the text to speech software. Students are also starting to use text to speech software in order for them to proofread their assignments. The students say that they really like being able to hear the story read back to them, but that their favorite part of the program is when the program highlights the word as it is reading it. The students say that it is much easier to find mistakes this way. Teachers are even letting students go to the computers to use the text to speech programs to fix their papers before they turn them in. Both students and teachers are very happy with the text to speech programs that they can now use.

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