It came to my attention today that speech-to-text has a counterpart that can be just as useful for communication. Text-to-speech programs are a great option for someone with a visual impairment. This type of program would allow anything typically delivered in a text format to be accompanied by the spoken word (i.e., spoken emails and text messages).
Here's a tutorial on how to set up text-to-speech for your Motorola Droid or phones that run the Android OS.
Text-to-Speech Tutorial
The iPhone's SpeakIt app ($1.99) has some more advanced options, like highlighting the words as they are spoken, choices of voices, and reading from websites.
SpeakIt Tutorial
Here's a tutorial on how to set up text-to-speech for your Motorola Droid or phones that run the Android OS. Text-to-Speech Tutorial
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