List of screen readers

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Screen readers are a form of assistive technology: programs to help people with visual impairments and blindness to use computers.

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[edit] Commercial software products

  • Hal from Dolphin
  • Dracula from Eurobraille
  • Enable Reader Professional Speech System from Enable Talking Software
  • Enhanced PC Talking Program from Computer Conversations
  • HT Reader from HT Visual
  • JAWS from Freedom Scientific
  • Thunder-RJ from RJ Cooper
  • LookOUT from Choice Technology
  • PCVoz Screen Reader from from Ezhermatic
  • screenreader2 from IBM
  • Simply Talker from Econonet
  • Soft Vert from TeleSensory Systems
  • Tinytalker from OMS Development
  • Window Bridge 2000 from Synthavoice
  • Window-Eyes from GW Micro
  • WinVision 97 from Arctic Tech
  • Virtual Vision from MicroPower
  • VisioVoice from AssistiveWare (Mac OS X)
  • ReadPlease from ReadPlease Corporation

[edit] Hardware Synthesizers

  • DECtalk from Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Apollo II and Gemini from Dolphin

[edit] Bundled with Braille line

  • outSpoken - ALVA (Discontinued)
  • Virgo - Baum

[edit] Free (zero cost)

[edit] Built into operating system

[edit] Freeware

  • Model T Reader (An MS-DOS screenreader from Dolphin released in the 1980s)
  • Thunder - Sensory Software.
  • EnVision - Basic multi-featured Windows accesibility tool.
  • ReadPlease - from ReadPlease Corporation has a free version

[edit] Open-source

  • BRLTTY
  • Emacspeak
  • suse-blinux
  • Linux Screen Reader

[edit] Combined Magnifiers/Screen Readers

[edit] Self-voicing web browsers

[edit] Programs that speak to help users

There are many programs, typically in Assistive Technology, that use speech to help users with print and visual impairments (e.g. dyslexia.)

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