Techno Dys

Tipp 10 has been around for five years, and had over 1.4m downloads, in German. This month they launched the English version, which is Porta...

I was asked by a friend for ideas for free reading books for children. Here is a great website which lists many. Free e-books

Today somebody asked me for a recommendation of something free to use instead of Ginger Software, to help with their grammar and spelling. S...

I was recently asked for a "Manual" for Balabolka. I could not find a really comprehensive one. But I did find these: http://rsc...

That is it - No more, no less. Just a (good) long list. 70 Excellent links for dyslexia support

Even thought I tend to use the newsletter now, I will keep you informed of other things that are going on here. So here is one. It is a webi...

I will continue to feed information into this blog. But I am also starting a regular newsletter for all those interested in what is happenin...

Here is an offline converter for PDF to Word. And it is free. Free Converter

I recently had a need to find a way to convert a PDF to a Word document. Here is the online service I used. I strongly recommend it.Quick, n...

All I can say here is - check out this video! It speaks for itself. Awesome! I am not an iPhone fan, but this is just amazing, and so dysle...

The new Caldys2 project has started a blog that looks to provide information not only on its own activities, but also links to the wider wor...

Have you seen the new Google Instant Previews yet? It emulated the visual view for searching that I have been reporting over the past few y...

I am always worried when I change phones how I can retain all those old sms and email that are on the Blackberry. I can forward emails, but ...

Want to attach a Post-It note to a document. Here is how to do it, whether it is a web page, Word dot of email. Gumnotes

I have been watching the fall and fall of the cost of taking a picture of text with a phone and then having it read out. The lowest I have s...

I keep meaning to find a way to improve my writing. Here is a video that has convinced me to take a closer look at this software. Whitesmoke

The EU funded iSHeds project - Identification and Support in Higher Education of Dyslexic Students - has now launched its major resources: a...

Embed is a project that has, over the past two years, been refining a series of outcomes from a diversity of EU funded projects, whcih are n...

If you had trouble with learning a language at school, but want to communicate in a language other than English for business or pleasure, th...

I have recently compiled a list of EU projects to accompany the article "Dyslexia related resources in different language" in Jour...

It seems that Dys2 is just about ready to launch with its new set of games, following on from the original 135. These are activities to pro...

I recently created a web site that would support an article I am writing. The article is: Smythe I and Molhova M (2010) Text-to-speech softw...

I have just learned that a new Welsh language voice (commissioned by the RNIB has been launched by Ivona. (Thanks Alasdair.) I will give det...

This may be seven years old, and it may be cut and paste, but I think that this is still one friendliest pieces of text-to-speech other the...

I rather liked this little reader. It is free, and has a good voice. Ivona MiniReader

Inspired by the comment left by Lis yesterday, the next TTS to consider at is NaturalReader . This is free software which comes in two versi...

I am currently writing an article about text-to-speech, and therefore a number of the entries will be about that work. Today, I give you the...

When it comes to Text-to-Speech software, there is so much out there that it is hard to find a recommendation. But today I have one. And wha...

Here is a review of the current top ten online text to speech systems. Top 10 Text to speech

This is a wonderful little tool that gets better with every update. Pictures can be very useful, as part of coursework, or illustrating a po...