PowerTalk
Product Type:
Device modifier
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Product Description:
PowerTalk is a free, assistive program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
Main Features:
- Aids users who have difficulty speaking or have an audience that contains people with sight problems (visual impairments, low vision, or blind) or who have dyslexia.
- Helps users access presentations when there is no speaker and they are partially sighted.
- Creates school activities such as reading stories created by students.
- Select a presentation and it runs in PowerPoint.
- Speaks the text on any presentation and uses standard Windows speech.
- Waits for text to appear and animation effects to play before speaking.
- Will speak hidden 'alternative text' for pictures, graphics shapes, and text.
- Lets users add instant narration to presentations without the need to record speech.
- A useful tool for testing presentation accessibility when using a screenreader.
Primary Specifications:
- Runs on Windows XP, VISTA, 7 (it should also work on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000).
- Users must have PowerPoint 2000 or later installed.
- Microsoft PowerPoint viewer is not useable as it does not provide the functionality that PowerTalk requires.
- The Microsoft Speech API 5.1 (MS SAPI 5.1) must be installed.