Scottish Voice
We believe there is a strong cultural and educational imperative for pupils in Scotland to be able to read and listen to Scottish curriculum resources spoken using a Scottish synthetic voice.
The Scottish Government has funded CALL Scotland to provide a Scotland-wide schools licence for ‘Heather’ – a high quality Scottish computer voice from CereProc in Edinburgh. Heather can be downloaded from this web site and is also available on CD from CALL Scotland. Heather is free to Scottish schools and support services and pupils can also install the voice on home computers.
Once installed on your computer, you can use Heather with most ‘text-to-speech’ programs to read: electronic books; PDF files (such as SQA exam papers); worksheets and other documents in Microsoft Word. You can also create audio files using the voice.
The Scottish voice can also be used on talking internet browsers to help pupils read materials made available on and through Glow.
For more information and to download the program, visit The Scottish Voice mini site.