Free or Open Source, easy to use support strategies for LD ...



Tools to support Study Strategies (HE/FE)

Types of Technology - Each one is just an example and all are different!

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1 Text to speech

1 Open source

1 ClipTalk



2 Portable

1 Dspeech



3 Free

1 ReadPlease 2003



4 Mobile phone

1 Vod Lite Daisy and TTS



2 Built in text to speech such as VoiceOver

5 Commercial

1 Texthelp, Claro, Dolphin, Don Johnston etc



6 Online

1 VozMe copy and paste



2 Spell checking

1 Open source

1 Aspell



2 ATbar



2 Portable

1 AbiWord with Enchant



3 Free

1 FreeSpell



4 Mobile phone

1 Speller



5 Commercial

1 Oribi VeritySpell



6 Online

1 Ghotit



2 Ginger



3 Google Toolbar



3 Graphical mapping

1 Open source

1 XMind



2 Portable

1 Freemnd



3 Free

1 Axon Lite version - complex



4 Mobile phone

1 MyMind Gstart- limited



5 Commercial

1 Inspiration, MindView, iMindmap, Mindmanager, MindGenius, ClaroIdeas, Spark Learner etc



6 Online

1 MindMeister and many others



4 Reminders

1 Open source

1 TaskCoach to do lists and reminders



2 Portable

1 Stickies portable



3 Free

1 VueMinder Calendar



2 SoundTimer for setting times



4 Mobile phone

1 ReQall to do list voice and text plus reminders - links online



5 Commercial

1 Calendars as part of the Operating System or Office Suite

6 Online

1 Remember the Milk



5 Speech Recognition

1 Open source

1 Simon Listens



2 Portable

1 Possibly CMU Sphinx in the future!



3 Free

1 e-Speaking - Using Microsoft's Speech Engine (for Vista and Windows7)



4 Mobile phone

1 Dragon Mobile apps



5 Commercial

1 Dragon NaturallySpeaking



2 Microsoft Windows speech recognition / SpeakQ

and

6 Online

1 Google voice to SMS etc



6 Scanning and OCR

1 Open source

1 Tesseract-ocr



2 Portable

1 TopOCR - still available but now SnapReader

and

3 Free

1 SimpleOCR



4 Mobile phone

1 Prizmo for iPhone with Acapela TTS

and

2 OcrNOW! Lite



5 Commercial

1 Lite versions come with the scanner

6 Online

1 Free OCR for limited amounts



7 Dictionaries

1 Open source

1 Yadabyte portable dictionary



2 Portable

1 Lingoes Translation and Speech



3 Free

1 WordWeb Dictionary and Thesaurus



4 Mobile phone

1 Dictionary!



5 Commercial

1 Concise Oxford English Dictionary with speech



6 Online

1



2 HowJSay



8 Calculators

1 Open source

1 SpeedCrunch



2 Portable

1 Converber Portable



3 Free

1 FRS Talking Calculator



4 Mobile phone

1 Fusion Calculator Lite app



5 Commercial

1 Premier Talking Calculator



6 Online

1 Online Calculators



2 Kids Talking Calculator



9 Note taking

1 Open source

1 Basket Note Pads



2 Portable

1 Evernote



3 Free Trial

1 IdeaRover



4 Mobile phone

1 Evernote



5 Commercial

1 Microsoft OneNote



6 Online

1 TopicMarks



10 References

1 Open source

1 JabRef



2 Portable

1 Zotero with Portable Firefox



3 Free

1 Zotero with Firefox



4 Mobile phone

1 Mendeley Lite



5 Commercial

1 Reference Manager



6 Online

1 CiteULike



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