Colligo Corp., a digital content and assistive technology solutions company, today announced their Scan N Talk text-to-speech (TTS) technology. Scan and Talk is the most cost effective and easy-to-use solution with the highest quality voice on the market. From children to baby-boomers, Scan N Talk helps those millions who suffer from the varieties of reading hurdles, such as: blindness, visual impairments, dyslexia, scotopic syndrome and learning disabilities.
Scan N Talk reads printed documents such as books, newspapers, magazines, mail, etc. Touch one button and in approximately 20 seconds, large type is displayed on the computer screen and is read to the user you by means of the award winning Natural Voices technology from AT&T. Scan N Talk shatters the myth that a computer has to speak in monotonous dreary tones. After reading, files can be saved in text or sound or printed even on Braille embossers (optional).
"Scan N Talk and our other assistive technologies open a newfound 'information super highway' for the blind and visually impaired. For those with dyslexia, this multi-sensory approach utilizing images and sounds creates a connection to the brain, improving reading," states Doug Powles, President of Colligo Corp.
This assistive technology is appropriate for libraries and all Government agencies who are complying with Section 508, educational facilities complying with the No Child Left Behind Act, consumers with reading and vision impairments, and children who have trouble reading.
"Innovations of this nature that use readily available technology to improve access to the written word, provide knowledge, freedom and power. Without these basic rights, the ability to self advocate becomes very difficult, therefore hindering independence," said Dr. Dean Stenehjem, Superintendent of the Washington State School for the Blind.