I am so excited I found a Web 2.0 tool that actually works in Spanish!!! 100% works!!! The best part that I liked about it was that I could create an avatar in almost any shape, size, or color that I wanted. I made a PowerPoint presentation then connected it to a Voicethread. I feel like I have conquered the "Technology World!" I know that tomorrow or next week there will be something else that I will be terrified to make or use.
Read the Words.com takes a written text and creates an audio file. I really enjoyed it! I pronounces things correctly and puts the stress where it should be. Now the only thing that I did not like about the program is that If you have special characters it will say what that character is. For instance if you type 1/2 cup of sugar it will say "one forward slash two" so if you want it to say 1/2 cup you must type half cup specifically. The other thing that was odd was when I typed one sentence in English and the next in Spanish it will pronounce it in the language you have chosen to use.
Other than those two little things at this point this is the best program I have found for reading text in specific languages. I know there are a couple of other programs that are better but they are expensive and mostly used by the government and United Nations. Below you can click the play button and hear what I recorded.
Here is the link to my voicethread.
http://voicethread.com/?#u1702005.b1974379.i10418242
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