Immersive Reader which is these days embedded in everything that Microsoft does it seems is a quiet miracle. I have some niggles (Line Focus - next and previous buttons shouldn’t move), and the web version is heaps better than on desktop.. But still - Its fab - reading coach is particularly awesome.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/use-immersive-reader-in-word-a857949f-c91e-4c97-977c-a4efcaf9b3c1#PickTab=Web

Am I the stupid one? So you rename one of the most popular apps out there. A vast majority of its users who don’t read tech press know nothing about this. Like most. They go to look at their app. It’s literally gone. No twitter app. Oh but now there’s this dodgy X (1 letter) app. What the actually ?

The new voice creation tool in iOS and live speech (in-built tts app from any screen) in iOS. My voice is definitely.. clunky .. but bear in mind I recorded this at like 2am in a AirBnB and didn’t want to wake the neighbours. 15 mins recording.

https://willwa.de/2023/07/15/the-new-voice.html

Need an AAC/AT textbook but nowhere near a library or have money? This is awesome from Internet Archive. Loan a textbook for free for an hour at a time. archive.org/details/i… (and my personal fav : archive.org/details/a…)

https://archive.org/details/inlibrary?query=aac https://archive.org/details/alternativecompu00anso/page/n307/mode/2up

Just released a new build of our RelayKeys stack. RelayKeys allow us to turn any Windows AAC device into a Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse (and to come.. Games controller). You plug a small dongle into the AAC device - pair it with any Bluetooth device - a phone, tablet, SmartTV, for example - and then can send k... willwa.de https://willwa.de/2023/07/11/just-released-a.html

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