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Allan Wilson

voice notes / comments in microsoft word 2007

Posted by Allan Wilson on the 24th November, 2009

Many pupils with writing difficulties can benefit from the use of Voice Notes in Microsoft Word to record their answers to questions in a worksheet. Rather than type an answer, a pupil can speak it into a microphone and have the recording saved with the document for the teacher to review later. ...

free internet resources

Posted by Allan Wilson on the 28th October, 2009

There are some incredible resources available free on the internet these days. (We like to think we have some pretty incredible resources available on our web sites, too, e.g. WordTalk and The Scottish Voice.) Here are a couple of American sites that I have come across recently and which are defi...

using text-to-speech utilities to read web pages

Posted by Allan Wilson on the 24th July, 2009

CALL frequently receives enquiries from people seeking advice on utilities that can be used to read text from web pages. Teachers and parents may be using WordTalk to read Word documents and are now looking for something similar to read web pages. Earlier this year CALL carried out a detailed co...

the bbc\'s new accessible newsreader

Posted by Allan Wilson on the 14th May, 2009

Welcome! Welcome to the first entry in the new CALL Scotland Blog! We will be using the Blog to share information about our work, events we are organising and developments in augmentative and alternative communication, assistive technology and education.The BBC's Accessible Newsreader The BBC hav...

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