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Blackboard and ReadSpeaker Partner to Enhance Accessibility of Digital Course Content

Amy Foxwell • January 23, 2018

ReadSpeaker’s leading text-to-speech technology integrated into Blackboard Ally, helping instructors worldwide create more accessible content for learners WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 2018 – Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve the accessibility of course content for their students. Currently, ReadSpeaker is Blackboard’s exclusive text-to-speech provider that is fully integrated within […]

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Webinar: Improve Civic Engagement with a Speech-Enabled Website

Amy Foxwell • December 5, 2017

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Today, the public sector is focused on improving access to information and cultivating civic engagement and transparency of demographically diverse communities. When you think about your community and how more and more critical content is being accessed by computer keyboards and mobile devices by citizens […]

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Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Support for ReadSpeaker SCAPI and PAPI

Courtney Lacomblez • November 28, 2017

ReadSpeaker now offers support for Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) for ReadSpeaker’s speechCloud API and Production API products. SSML is a standardized markup language for speech synthesis applications. It is an industry standard and recommended by W3C. With SSML, the user has more control over how the text is read by the TTS engine, specifically the prosody of the […]

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Speak TTS App Now Available for Android on Google Play

Courtney Lacomblez • October 24, 2017

ReadSpeaker is proud to introduce Speak TTS: a new app that allows you to add a new high quality Text to Speech voice for your Android device and purchase individual licenses of rSpeak voices. Available on Google Play, Speak TTS uses an embedded text-to-speech (TTS) engine which will be added as a new Android system voice. The lifelike Speak […]

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Webinar in Partnership with AMAC’s AccessText: Enhance the Learning Experience

Amy Foxwell • October 17, 2017

How ReadSpeaker Text-to-Speech Solutions Enhance the Learning Experience  Webinar: Thursday, October 26, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT In partnership with Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)’s AccessText, we invite you to attend our webinar on ReadSpeaker TextAid and how it improves the learning experience. This webinar will highlight the ease of implementing and deploying ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech functionality […]

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ReadSpeaker’s Hot Spot Presentation: Frankfurt Bookfair 2017

Courtney Lacomblez • October 16, 2017

It was great to see so many people at the Frankfurt Bookfair #FBM17 and we were pleased to see many of you at ReadSpeaker co-founder and COO Joop Heijenrath’s successful Hot Spot presentation: “How to Use Text to Speech to Improve Learning Outcomes and Business Results”. You can download the presentation (PDF) by clicking on […]

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Improve User Experience and Community Engagement

Amy Foxwell • October 12, 2017

Give your website its voice with Text to Speech  It’s not easy to provide timely, high-quality customer service and an engaging user experience. For government agencies, this has been a persistent and sometimes overwhelming challenge. Customer service problems deplete agencies’ budgets and strain personnel resources. Agency administrators everywhere feel the impact of ballooning call center […]

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Launch of ReadSpeaker webReader

Courtney Lacomblez • October 10, 2017

After months of hard work, everyone at ReadSpeaker is proud to introduce ReadSpeaker webReader: Previously ReadSpeaker Enterprise Highlighting, we chose the name “ReadSpeaker webReader” for our flagship product to better reflect what it does: speech-enable website content, or quite literally, read websites out loud using our text-to-speech technology. ReadSpeaker webReader has all the same great […]

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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Courtney Lacomblez • October 6, 2017

In addition to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October has also been named “Dyslexia Awareness Month”, a largely misunderstood learning disability that affects 1 out of 5 people. – What is dyslexia? It is characterized by difficulties learning to read. Often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities, if dyslexia is not detected early on, it can […]

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ReadSpeaker Exhibiting at Frankfurt Bookfair 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany

Courtney Lacomblez • September 15, 2017

ReadSpeaker is pleased to once again be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Bookfair from October 11 – 15, 2017. Content is increasingly interactive, and audio is a compelling part of the landscape. Providing a text-to-speech version of content is proven to improve results, for both users and for the organizations that implement it. Stop by Stand […]

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