Text-to-speech in JED
JED optionally includes text-to-speech, to read out the content of the page aloud. All you need is the text-to-speech option in your JED subscription, and a computer with speakers.
With text-to-speech, the pages in JED have a small speech-bubble icon. Clicking on the icon causes the page content to be read aloud. It also highlights the words as they are read.
Benefits
Text-to-speech makes JED more accessible for your users. It is of particular benefit for people with special needs that mean reading text is difficult for them. It also helps weaker or reluctant readers, and can give extra confidence to those for whom English is not their first language.
New and improved text-to-speech in JED, from January 2012
The way that text-to-speech is done in JED is changing in January 2012. See the help video for more.
The new text-to-speech in JED has a much more natural-sounding voice than the previous way text-to-speech was done in JED. Another benefit is that it highlights the text actually in the page, rather than showing it in a separate speech bubble.
Deployment of the new text-to-speech is very easy – nearly all browsers can use it without having to add or install anything. If your JED subscription includes text-to-speech, your computers can use it right away.
Page date 10/01/12