[Xerte] Text to speech in nicer voices

[Alistair McNaught]

If you were attracted to Xerte because of the inbuilt text to speech they knew maybe even more interested to hear that post 16 learning providers in England will very shortly have access to two free, brand new voices TechDis Jess and TechDis Jack. These are much higher quality than the inbuilt Windows voices that are normally picked up by Xerte.  By simply setting Jess or Jack to be your default windows voice, Xerte will always speak using that voice.

More details to follow at the end of the week after the launch of the voices at the national digital inclusion conference on Wednesday / Thursday.

Alistair



Alistair McNaught
Senior Advisor
JISC TechDis
C/O The Higher Education Academy Building
Innovation Way
York Science Park
YORK
YO10 5BR

07870567659
Skype: alistair_techdis
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk<http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/?utm_source=emailsig&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sitelaunchmail>
http://www.scoop.it/t/inclusive-teaching-and-learning

Interested in pragmatic inclusion- focused staff development?
See JISC TechDis ITQ for accessible IT practice<http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/pages/detail/floating_pages/ITQ_Accessible_IT_Practice> information and taster resource<http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=5>.

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