Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 18th July, 2017
Dragon Naturally Speaking is high quality speech recognition software for Windows and MacOS. As well as dictating to your computer, you can format text and control the computer. NaturallySpeaking installs on the computer so you don't need an internet connection for it to work. We reco...
Posted by Craig Mill on the 7th July, 2017
CALL Scotland is pleased to announce the release of a new guide; Making the most of Microsoft Word 2016 to support learners with literacy difficulties. The guide explores some of the tools in the latest version of Word 2016 that can be used to support literacy and other additional support need...
Posted by Craig Mill on the 5th July, 2017
While updating the Google Voice Typing page on the CALL website I came across a new feature (new to me), ‘Select to Speak’ on the latest Android operating system, Marshmallow. Select to Speak allows you to select text on the screen and hear it spoken aloud. It works on most of the Androi...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 4th July, 2017
Clips is a new Free iOS app for making and sharing videos with text captions, special effects, graphics and more. It was very easy to create this short captioned video. Using the camera on your iPhone or iPad, hold the red button to record live video (or use a video clip from your P...
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 28th June, 2017
The Technology Discovery Day organised by Augmentative Communication in Practise Scotland (ACiP:S) and held at CALL Scotland on Saturday 24th June 2017 was a great success. Thank you to everyone who helped organise the event and to those who came along on the day. Adults (16+) who use AAC, fro...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 20th June, 2017
The Pupil Equity Fund (worth £120 million) is directly allocated to schools to address the poverty related attainment gap. To close this identified gap, children and young people from all backgrounds need to be given more opportunities and greater support to succeed in order to achieve e...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 19th June, 2017
Over 250 people attended this year's two-day ASL and Technology Conference and Exhibition, held in Edinburgh last Wednesday and in Clydebank the following day. There were 28 companies and organisations with stands in the exhibition areas in Edinburgh, while, due to restrictions in space, there w...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 6th June, 2017
We were approached recently by Jenna Lyons, an MSc student at the University of Dundee, studying Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). She is currently running a study with colleagues aimed at learning how to design the layout of AAC devices using the exact preferences of the specific us...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 6th June, 2017
The day after last week's blog on Scanning Pens and Scanning Apps, which suggested that the Adobe Scan app for the iPad only produced "image" files, rather than "selectable" text, when it is used to scan a page with text, Adobe released a new version of the app which DOES pro...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 5th June, 2017
We have a brand new exciting line up of Professional Learning opportunities for anyone who is working with a person who has Additional Support Needs, a physical, communication or sensory support needs. You will find full details of the CALL Scotland 2017-18 Professional Learning calendar&...
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