Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 17th April, 2015
Speech recognition has been around for many years, and many people have tried it without much success. It could be made to work, but often involved a lot of training, time and effort. Today though, computers are much more powerful, speech recognition software is much more accurate and reliable, and ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2015
Development Officer - Assistive Technology & Additional Support Needs
As a result of recent and upcoming staff changes, we are looking for a person to come and join the CALL team. This post is full-time and fixed-term until 31st March 2017 - although we hope and expect that funding will ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 30th March, 2015
Thanks to Isabell Irvine from Inverclyde for contributing Large Print books in both Word and PDF. The Word files are provided in case staff need to edit them to change the font or font size for example.
George's Marvellous Medicine - LP14 Word
George's Marvellous Medic...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 27th March, 2015
PDFescape is a new browser-based PDF editor with the facility to insert form fields (answer boxes). The free service lets you upload a PDF, do simple editing, add form fields, and then download back to your computer. The PDF can then be accessed by learners on computer using for example Ad...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th March, 2015
We are excited to announce that Bright Red Publishing are the latest Scottish textbook publisher to agree to provide digital copies of their books for the Books for All Database. Bright Red publish Study and Revision Guides for Intermediate, National 5 and Highers and also SQA Past Papers. Over the ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 3rd March, 2015
Just before Christmas Mary Matson from Edinburgh and Lothians VTSS transcription team kindly gave us over 15,000 files to add to the database.
Rebecca Gow here in CALL, with help from James, a student, have gone through this treasure trove and sorted and edited the files into complete books. Some...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 25th February, 2015
We are pleased to report that we have received funding to work with CereProc to develop and license a Scottish Gaelic computer voice for the Scottish public sector. CereProc are a world-class text-to-speech company based in Edinburgh and the Gaelic voice development is funded by The S...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 4th February, 2015
On 31 October the Scottish Government published Guidance on “Planning improvements for disabled pupils’ access to education” which "describes the requirements the Act places on education authorities and schools to work to improve the education of disabled learners and to help ...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 13th January, 2015
Following the incident where a TeeJay book was found available on the internet (see the 7 January blog post), we have modified the wording of the Books for All Database records and we hope that it is clearer and encourages staff to read and understand the terms and conditions.
Tom Strang at TeeJa...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 9th January, 2015
You may have found that the TeeJay maths PDFs are not on the Books for All database any more. We have temporarily removed them because just before Christmas one of the files appeared on Wikispaces, freely downloadable, and this is not permitted under the agreement we have with TeeJay.
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