Text-to-speech that speaks for itself

Welcome back to ReadSpeaker Education Express. This is our LinkedIn newsletter aimed at providing insights and updates on all things text to speech for the education and publishing world.

Our second edition has insights from our customers, a look at the assistive technology landscape, and the chance to register for our webinars and events.

Your cheat sheet to the assistive tech landscape

Complex. Confusing. Countless options.

Setting a level playing field for all learners is something we all strive for - but when there is a myriad of options for solutions to support that goal where do you turn?

Dear reader, we have just the blog for you!

Read our blog about the landscape of assistive tech for education to compare and contrast the available tools!

Or for a whistle stop tour on the importance of assistive technology in education, hear from ReadSpeaker co-founder, Fredrik Larsson , below.

Text to speech that speaks your language

Lesterhuis Training en Consultancy specializes in supporting organizations with the implementation and use of Moodle LMS.

Part of their service includes creating instructional videos for Moodle users, recognising that their customers engage with content in diverse ways. But narration was taking up a lot of their time. So they turned to text to speech!

"With other solutions, we consistently faced challenges finding a Dutch-speaking voice that didn’t have any unwanted English or other dialectal influences. With ReadSpeaker SpeechMaker, these issues were eliminated—it simply worked as needed, delivering clear and accurate Dutch speech." Gemma Lesterhuis , Owner of LT&C and Moodle LMS Specialist

Read the interview with Gemma.

Exciting Moodle announcement

ReadSpeaker is a longstanding Moodle collaborator and became a Moodle Certified Integration Partner in 2022, allowing learners within the Moodle LMS to select and listen to content in over 50 languages with the click of a button.

We're now bringing text-to-speech to the Moodle app, allowing users to seamlessly engage with content both in their browser and their app for a coherent learning experience.

Find out more about ReadSpeaker for Moodle.

New voices

Introducing Naghma (F) and Sarang (M), the two new Urdu voices that have joined our family of ReadSpeaker TTS voices!

These voices will make listening to text a more accessible and engaging experience, supporting a wide range of users, whether they want extra reading support in their own language, need help with their studies or are accessing content in another language and want help with understanding.

5 ways text-to-speech helps multilingual learners

You can’t teach a student who feels excluded, and many students don’t speak the dominant language. Multilingual AI voice tools are the solution.

Learn what Springfield Technical Community College are doing to improve learning outcomes

Want to learn more? We're hosting webinars in November which might be right up your street.

• Do you feel like you are supporting your multi-lingual learners enough? Discover how text-to-speech is improving comprehension, fostering inclusivity and enabling exam success - register now to join us live or access the webinar on-demand. Date and time: November 7th, 16:00 (Gulf Standard Time)
• The benefits of text to speech for multilingual learners - register now to join us live or access the webinar on-demand. Date and time:?November 12th, 13:00 (Eastern Time)

Register for our webinars and watch on-demand.

Education Events

Meeting the community face-to-face is all the inspiration we need - so make sure you visit us at our upcoming events.

• Global Moodle Moot (Mérida, Mexico) - 22-24 October
• Closing The Gap (MN, USA) - 22-24 October
• QM Quality Matters : Empowering Learners, Enabling Potential (IL, USA) - 4-6 November
• D2L Connection (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 5-6 November
• Digital Learning Centre Sp. z o.o e-Learning FUSION Conference (Poland) - 12-13 Nov
• GESS Dubai (Dubai, UAE) - 12-14 November - Stand P32 on the UK Pavilion
• AHEAD ( Association on Higher Education And Disability ) AHG Conference (CO, USA) - 13-14 November

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