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Speechify is a mobile, Chrome extension and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer-generated text to speech voice. [1] [2] [3]The app also uses optical character recognition technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio which can be played in your own voice or in that of a celebrity.
John Pounds (17 June 1766 – 1 January 1839) was a teacher and altruist born in Portsmouth, and the man most responsible for the creation of the concept of Ragged schools. [1] After Pounds' death, Thomas Guthrie (often credited with the creation of Ragged Schools) wrote his Plea for Ragged Schools and proclaimed John Pounds as the originator ...
Software that converts text to voice is readily available and can be easily used to read out Wikipedia pages on-the-fly. See screen reader . The web-based Pediaphon service uses speech synthesis to generate MP3 audio files and podcasts of Wikipedia articles in different languages.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Rugged Priest is a 2011 Kenyan biographical film directed by Bob Nyanja ...
BrowseAloud has been criticised by technologists for the need to use a mouse to select text before BrowseAloud would read it. [7] This required vision and motor skills to use, making BrowseAloud inaccessible to groups that could use other screen readers, such as JAWS. Commentators have noted that BrowseAloud is not a substitute for such tools ...
Noonan completed The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists in 1910, but the 1,600-page hand-written manuscript was rejected by the three publishing houses to which it was submitted. The rejections severely depressed Noonan, and Kathleen Noonan had to save the manuscript from being burnt by keeping it in a metal box under her bed.
Michael Thomas Schmitz [2] (born December 14, 1974) [3] is an American Catholic priest, speaker, author, and podcaster.. The Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries in the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, [4] [5] Schmitz is most notable for his social media presence, which mainly consist of his YouTube videos [6] [7] [8] and The Bible in a Year podcast, both of which are produced by the ...
Priestdaddy is a memoir by American poet Patricia Lockwood. [1] It was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times and was awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor. [2]