Ampache thus serves as a compromise between three common accommodations: text-to-speech software, a human reader, and audiobooks.

I would like to call attention to text-to-speech software, available free to the blind, for widely deployed text-based chat.

Today, text-to-speech software lets the blind read text on Web sites and in E-mail.

"My text-to-speech software let me read the various search sites," she said, "but they often put so many links on a page it became hard to use."

Personalized information can be included in the phone messages through the integration of text-to-speech software.

They are especially useful with speech synthesis or text-to-speech software, which reads content to users.

Electronic texts are especially useful to the blind because they can be easily fed into text-to-speech software.

People who cannot see can nevertheless read the Web using text-to-speech software.

But for people who rely on text-to-speech software, skipping over those elements is not an option.

All the services let users listen over the phone to their e-mail; the text is "spoken" by text-to-speech software.