Hello,

 

I am wondering if anyone has worked with assistive technologies for visually impaired students? I am asking on behalf of a German faculty member who is working with a visually impaired student. She is wondering about software that does text-to-voice (and possibly voice to text too). She pointed to Kurzweil 3000 and we confirmed that it does German. But it appears it is $700 for a single license?! It seems expensive.

 

-        I just wanted to see if anyone has any experience with or ideas about such assistive technologies?

-        Also, at your institution does the language lab/language resource center provide such assistive technologies or do you have a campus unit that provides such accommodation services and technologies for students with special needs?

 

Thanks!

Sangeetha

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Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D.
Director

Foreign Language Technology Center (FLTC)
Wayne State University
385 Alex Manoogian Hall, 906 W. Warren Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
Email: sangeetha@wayne.edu

Tel: 313-577-6391; Fax: 313-577-3041

 

Immediate Past President

International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)

Where technology speaks your language

 

Co-Principal Investigator

Ethnic Layers of Detroit

Unraveling the ethnic histories of Detroit through digital storytelling

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