1. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 Read2Me! Stefan Estrada Rémi Jean Mickaël Meyer

2. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 What is Read2Me! ? ● Text-to-speech tool, with which a computer reads text aloud ● Stand alone interface ● Converter to save the speech to an MP3 file ● Possible Firefox plug-in

3. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 Who is Read2Me! designed for ? ● Client: – Dorian Miller – LDS volunteer/CS Grad student ● Users: – People with reading disabilities – Anyone

4. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 Existing Tools ● Several tools over the web – Read Please, Natural reader, Talk-it ● Not Open Source ● FreeTTS and MS SAPI engines

5. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 Design JAVA GUI SWT MS SAPIFreeTTS Text MP3 file Sound MP3 Lame converter

6. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 GUI

7. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 Demo ● Demo time ! (hope it doesn’t crash…)

8. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 To Do ● MS SAPI Integration ● Navigation ● MP3 LAME Converter ● Installer ● Additional features – Firefox plug-in – Collect user data

9. Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, 8 2007 That’s it ! ● Thank you for your attention ● Any question ?