{"id":2725,"date":"2013-11-14T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2013-11-14T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:06:40","slug":"another-voice-for-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/another-voice-for-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Another voice for history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To take students through the text of a historical document, I downloaded a sample UK voice called Peter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assistiveware.com\/product\/infovox-ivox\" target=\"_blank\">Infovox<\/a> (free for 30 days, then $20 for the one voice). It works through my Mac&#8217;s Universal Access system. It&#8217;s quite awkward to have it read just text, since even at high-threshold settings it wants to read aloud all the computer commands and window changes. By putting the Magna Carta into a TextEdit document and recording with Snapz Pro, I did this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8h_KBWABHDQ?rel=0\">\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8h_KBWABHDQ?rel=0<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I also tried a UK male voice at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepstral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cepstral<\/a> but I couldn&#8217;t get it to behave properly.<\/p>\n<p>This approach might be more effective with bouncing ball or highlighting, but I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To take students through the text of a historical document, I downloaded a sample UK voice called Peter from Infovox (free for 30 days, then $20 for the one voice). It works through my Mac&#8217;s Universal Access system. It&#8217;s quite awkward to have it read just text, since even at high-threshold settings it wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,15,24],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presentation","category-web-20","tag-ds106"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}