6 Keywords: Texthelp Read And Write Gold, Text To Speech, Screen Shot Reader, Snipping, Reading Images, Specific Learning Difficulties

"The first thing I had to do was use text-reading software over some poetry, just to slow myself down. Text-reading software is atonal, finding recordings of people reading is a much better option, but in this case it had the desired effect of making me pay attention to every word."

Here is a sample with the computer synthesised voice reading slowly which can be compared to a reading of the poem available on the Open Culture website

"I sometimes use the ‘snapshot tool’ or ‘snipping tool’ to take screenshots from files that are an image rather than text.  My text-reading package (TextHelp Gold) will make a reasonable go at 19th and 20th century documents that have good quality typeface. The snipping tool is excellent for making quick notes that have a visual quality rather than just a list. I have tried using the on-line bookmarking tool ‘delicious’ but am so in the habit of using ‘favourites’ that it remains the top dumping ground for links in totally unorganised lists on several computers."