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  2. Speechify - Wikipedia

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    Speechify is a mobile, Chrome extension and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer-generated text to speech voice. [1] [2] [3]The app also uses optical character recognition technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio which can be played in your own voice or in that of a celebrity.

  3. Speech synthesis - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. Artificial production of human speech Automatic announcement A synthetic voice announcing an arriving train in Sweden. Problems playing this file? See media help. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech ...

  4. Screen reader - Wikipedia

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    An example of someone using a screen reader showing documents that are inaccessible, readable and accessible. A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) [1] that renders text and image content as speech or braille output.

  5. Vocoder - Wikipedia

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    The development of a vocoder was started in 1928 by Bell Labs engineer Homer Dudley, [5] who was granted patents for it on March 21, 1939, [6] and Nov 16, 1937. [7]To demonstrate the speech synthesis ability of its decoder section, the voder (voice operating demonstrator) [8] was introduced to the public at the AT&T building at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair. [9]

  6. Lector - Wikipedia

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    The title lector may be applied to lecturers and readers at some universities. There is also the title lector jubilate, which is an equivalent of Doctor of Divinity.. In the teaching of modern languages at universities in the United Kingdom, a native speaker who assists with language skills would be called a lector, and if a female she may be called a lectrice.

  7. Switch access - Wikipedia

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    Switch access is the use of one or more switches to operate computers and other devices and is primarily used by people with severe physical or cognitive impairment. A switch is an assistive technology device that replaces the need to use a computer keyboard or a mouse.

  8. Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs) - Wikipedia

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    Starling eventually deduces from Lecter's riddles that Gumb knew his first victim, Frederica Bimmel, and goes to Bimmel's hometown of Belvedere, Ohio to gather information. By this time, Crawford has already found out the killer's true identity and gone with a SWAT team to his house to arrest him, but they find that it is only a business address.

  9. Esteban Navarro - Wikipedia

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    In 2008 the novel The Bering Reactor won a prize in the Katharsis short story contest. [13]In April 2011 he was awarded at the La Balsa de Piedra contest, organized by the José Saramago Foundation, [14] for his novel El Buen Padre. [15]