Cross-Cultural Study into the use of Text to Speech with Electronic Files to aid access to Textbooks
E.A. Draffan, Mike Wald, Mamoru Iwabuchi, Maiko Takahashi, Kenryu Nakamura · IOS Press eBooks · 2011
Objective. At present, pupils, teachers and parents struggle with the lack of textbooks and supporting materials in accessible formats that can be used by pupils with visual or print impairment including specific reading difficulties such as dyslexia. Independent projects in Japan and the UK were conceived to assess whether the provision of textbooks and teaching materials as electronic files, along with technologies to convert and ‘read’ them could provide a new and sustainable model and enhance the skills of the users.