PDF or Word to Auido

[hyb80]

Does anyone know of or use a program or iOS app to assist in exams that, in this situation. Read from a PDF or word file, lets say an exam paper, and the student can choose text and have it read it to them over audio.

 

I know adobe reader has an audio reader built in but seems flakey

[has]

we use ivona

[dhicks]

Does anyone know of or use a program or iOS app to assist in exams that, in this situation. Read from a PDF or word file, lets say an exam paper, and the student can choose text and have it read it to them over audio.

 

Whatever solution you find, check how it works - it might need network access. I was surpised to find Siri sends all its audio off to be processed, a text-to-speech application might work in a similar fashion. It would be a sortable problem (give a machine a profile that allowed access to the specific areas needed for the text-to-speech functionality but lock everything else down for exam purposes), just something to check.

[hyb80]

Whatever solution you find, check how it works - it might need network access. I was surpised to find Siri sends all its audio off to be processed, a text-to-speech application might work in a similar fashion. It would be a sortable problem (give a machine a profile that allowed access to the specific areas needed for the text-to-speech functionality but lock everything else down for exam purposes), just something to check.

 

Especially with 40+ doing it at the same time which is what they intend to do. I think some testing is required. Trialing Read and Write from TextHelp to begin with

[Andy61]

Especially with 40+ doing it at the same time which is what they intend to do. I think some testing is required. Trialing Read and Write from TextHelp to begin with

 

How have you found installing Texthelp I have been tearing my hair out trying to get it to run properly across a network. It works from a shortcut on a desktop but when I put it on a shortcut menu on the Start menu it wants to licence every time.