SayPad, the freeware talking text editor can read you a good book or help you write one, using SAPI 5.1 Text To Speech (included). It can convert Text to Audio for a whole book in one run, splitting off chapters into well named Audio files. You can fit huge files into it like the whole Bible for instance, (In fact it has a filter you can turn on that skips over verse numbers to let you hear it like a story.)

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The vOICe software translates images from a PC camera (webcam, camera glasses) into sounds that you hear via stereo headphones, thus targeting sensory substitution applications for the blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to "see" their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like.

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blind people. It aids in modifying the colors of images and pictures so that those with specific color-blindness can easily view the images. New Pigment works only with the abnormal color sensitivity (-anomaly), not the missing of color-sensitive pigment (-anopia). How Does It Work? The Science Behind Colorblindness... New Pigment changes the color that a colorblind person cannot see (the defective color) by a small amount (up to 13 levels of change

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