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Speechify was founded by Cliff Weitzman, a dyslexic college student at Brown University [8] [9] who built the first version of the tool himself to help him keep up with his class readings. Research has indicated that dyslexic students who utilized Speechify had better reading comprehension outcomes than students who only used traditional means ...
Cliff Weitzman is an Israeli-American [1] entrepreneur and the co-founder of Speechify Text To Speech software. [2] In 2017, Weitzman was named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 list. [3] Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate. [1] He could not read as a child. [4]
Speechify Solo was a text-to-speech software released by Speechworks in 2002. Speechify Solo featured a natural, human-sounding speaking voice that could read text-based information aloud, and personalize messages for individual users. It could be applied in the fields of hand-held computing, home entertainment, and the automotive industries. [6]
A programmable sound generator (PSG) is a sound chip that generates (or synthesizes) audio wave signals built from one or more basic waveforms, and often some kind of noise. PSGs use a relatively simple method of creating sound compared to other methods such as frequency modulation synthesis or pulse-code modulation .
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An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is a computer system that imitates human tutors and aims to provide immediate and customized instruction or feedback to learners, [1] usually without requiring intervention from a human teacher. [2]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor.
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