You say hello I say Text To Speech

Text to speech is a powerful way for students with reading deficits to overcome reading barriers. Often times students with disabilities  may feel overwhelmed with the amount of reading required on a project (Especially in the computer lab)  I think that text to speech is a great way to overcome this barrier. With text to speech programs students can copy large amounts of text and listen to it as an Mp3. Students can pause rewind or stop text. The following text to speech programs can be beneficial in the classroom.

vozme.com -  Standard text to speech program. Students can copy and paste large amounts of text  and have the program read the text to them.

http://www.yakitome.com/ -  I think that this might be one of the most powerful ways to use text to speech for students with disabilities. Yakittome  is a free site where students can turn text to speech and then convert the file to the mp3. Students could then download the mp3 to a hand held device and be able to listen or play the information when they get home or to go over classroom notes or handouts. One can embed a link into their page, blog, wiki, or site with the speech to text already provided. The only drawback is that this is a free service and it often takes a long time for the mp3 to download (The times I tried it I had to wait upwards of 3-4 minutes to wait for the program to download.)

spokentext.com -  Spoken text offers many of the same services as vozme and yakittome  but it comes with a firefox extention that makes navigation much easeir.