Announcing a Scottish computer voice free for education!




We’re chuffed to announce that the esteemed Scottish Government have given us some dosh to distribute ‘Heather’, a high quality Scottsh accent computer voice, to Scottish primary and secondary schools. Heather is a new synthetic voice from CereProc ltd in Edinburgh.

Basically, the plot is to test and refine the voice using a range of text-to-speech programs on both Mac and PC (e.g. WordTalk, Clicker 5, Browsealoud/PDFaloud/Read and Write Gold, GhostReader etc) and also VOCAs (voice output communication aids) and then distribute it FREE OF CHARGE to all Scottish primary and secondary schools.

The idea is that you’ll be able to have your Scottish exams (and anything else) read out in a really good Scottish voice, from about March 2008. Watch this space….

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One Response to “Announcing a Scottish computer voice free for education!”

  1.   ojkdunn Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 10:41 am

    jing crivens help ma boab Horace Broon will be ferr tickled

    Seriously though I think that this is reat as some “English” voices cause some difficulties.

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