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PowerTalk

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Product Description: 

PowerTalk is a free, assistive program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.

Main Features: 

  • Aids users who have difficulty speaking or have an audience that contains people with sight problems (visual impairments, low vision, or blind) or who have dyslexia.
  • Helps users access presentations when there is no speaker and they are partially sighted.
  • Creates school activities such as reading stories created by students.
  • Select a presentation and it runs in PowerPoint.
  • Speaks the text on any presentation and uses standard Windows speech.
  • Waits for text to appear and animation effects to play before speaking.
  • Will speak hidden 'alternative text' for pictures, graphics shapes, and text.
  • Lets users add instant narration to presentations without the need to record speech.
  • A useful tool for testing presentation accessibility when using a screenreader.

Primary Specifications: 

  • Runs on Windows XP, VISTA, 7 (it should also work on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000).
  • Users must have PowerPoint 2000 or later installed.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint viewer is not useable as it does not provide the functionality that PowerTalk requires.
  • The Microsoft Speech API 5.1 (MS SAPI 5.1) must be installed.

More Information: 

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