If, however, you go back to the Windows desktop, or to another software application such as Microsoft Word, those areas of the computer will not be magnified.

This means, for example, that you may be reading an article in Wikipedia, in a web browser such as Internet Explorer, magnified to make the text more readable. In almost all cases the screen magnification, and or screen reading, is limited to just the webpages being viewed in the browser. Most of the popular web browsers used to access the Internet have options to magnify webpages, and in some cases, read the text on them as well. Clients are often pleasantly surprised to learn about the variety of screen magnifiers, and text-to-speech (screen reader) options available within their web browsers or operating systems. Computer users accustomed to accessing the computer without the need for magnification, often have no idea what resources are available for low vision computer users. One of the most common challenges people with visual impairment report, is reading on the computer after a change in vision. I’ll post a link here to my first attempt at the Dutch prompts/sentences when I have them ready.Options for Reading on the Internet with a Computer I’ve successfully trained a decent MozillaTTS model on these ~1000 prompts, so it seems like that’s enough data to start with (at least for English, which I’ve read is related to Dutch). I plan to follow a similar process as was used to construct the CMU Arctic prompts for English. Construct a set of “phonetically balanced” Dutch sentences for and participant to read.Clean up my voice-recorder program (mentioned above) and ensure it can record on a Mac.it sounds like the same would apply to you since you’re also on a Mac.īefore we start recording, I need to do two things: Do you know if these work on the Mac? We could replace arecord with some other Mac command-line utility if needed. I have a small Python program that uses a very basic tkinter GUI and arecord. And which operating systems does this “small program” run on? She has a Mac. One person replied to me, she asks whether she needs any specific experience for this, and what she needs to do exactly.

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