Text-to-speech

What is Text-To-Speech? (TTS)

• Text-to-Speech (TTS) is technology that reads digital text aloud, usually with computer generated voices. Typically there are options to customize voices and reading speed.

How is TTS beneficial to students?

• For students with reading, attention or processing challenges, TTS can eliminate barriers of the printed page and allow students to see and hear text at the same time, creating a multisensory experience.

What tools offer TTS in FCPS?

• Read & Write Extension
• Equatio
• Capstone
• Epic Interactive
• Several other FCPS media center services

Resources:

• What is Text-to-Speech? By Understood.org
• Using TTS in Read&Write Extension

Text-to-Speech in Action