How ReadSpeaker’s new speech-enabling product extends the reach of your online content
1. How ReadSpeaker’s new speech-
enabling product extends the reach
of your online content
December 4, 2012
#talkingwebsite
2. Agenda
1. The benefits of adding online text to speech to
extend the reach of your online content
2. The main features of this new release,
including enhanced accessibility and easier
customization
3. How the more user-friendly design and added
functionality benefits your users
4. Q&As
3. Who benefits from adding speech
•
to online text content?
Illiteracy
Dyslexia
Low vision
Seniors
Foreign-born
Learners
Multitaskers
Mobile users
4. Illiteracy
US: 41 million (13%)
Germany: 7.7 million (9.5%)
France: 3.1 million (5%)
Netherlands: 1.5 million (9%)
Sweden: 950,000 (10%)
793 million adults
5. Illiteracy focus in the US
30 million US adults have below basic understanding of the
English language. A further 11 million cannot read or write in English.
6. Dyslexia
US: ~ 47 million (15 %)
Germany: 4 million (5%)
Italy: 2 million (3%)
The Netherlands: 850,000 (5%)
Sweden: 400,000 (4%)
7. Foreign-born
US: 39.9 million (12.7%)
Germany: 7.3 million (9%)
France: 7.2 million (11%)
Italy: 4.8 million (7.9%)
Netherlands: 3.4 million
(20.5%)
Sweden: 1.4 million
(14.7%)
8. Low vision
World: 246 million
US: 21.5 million (18+)
Europe: 25.5 million
India: 54.5 million
China: 67.3 million
World Health Organization: Some 65% of people with visual impairment are
over age 50, an age group that represents 20% of the global population. As
the world’s population ages, the number of people with age-related visual
impairment is expected to increase.
9. Aging populations
Europe: proportion of 65+ will double
between 2010 and 2050
Germany: 15 million (current)
France: 11 million (current)
Italy: 12.5 million (current)
Sweden: 1.7 million (current)
Americas: By 2020, 200 million older
adults, nearly twice the figure of 2006
US: 41.4 million 65+, 71 million
projected in 2030
10. Older adults and Internet usage
US: 53% of Americans aged 65+ use the
Internet or email
Germany: 33% (65+)
France: 26.7% (50+)
12. Mobile users with access to the
Internet
Of the 88% of US adults owning a cell
phone, 50%+ use their mobile to go
online
Europe
Germany: 26 million
France: 22.3 million
Italy: 17 million
Netherlands: 8.6 million
Sweden: 3.5 million
19. Benefits of adding speech to
•
online text content
Bimodal presentation improves
reading comprehension,
information recall, and learning/
memory enhancement.
20. Benefits of adding speech to
•
online text content
Instant new distribution channel
for your content.
21. Benefits of adding speech to
online text content
Immediate
conversion of your
existing written
content into high-
quality speech.
22. Our Solution
Listen
to any online text
that matters to you
anytime
and
anywhere
24. Why a new version?
Web is moving away from Flash and to
HTML5
More dynamic content
Improved usability
Better accessibility
Modern design
25. Better customization
Easier to customize
Customers can create
their own skins
Customize pre-made skin
templates
Better blending with the
visual identity of the
website
26. Easier customization
The ReadSpeaker Enterprise
Highlighting audio player is built
with standard web technologies
(HTML5, CSS, Javascript).
Therefore, it is very simple to create
a customized version of the player
(to match your organization’s visual
identity, for example).
28. Customization of skins
Our skin color guide provides
different options to easily
change the color appearance of
the player
29. Easier implementation
Code is simpler and easier to understand
Implementation time decreases
Improved delivery of updates via Cloud
30. Easy step-by-step implementation
“Implementing ReadSpeaker was quite easy. We wish all software implementations
were that easy.”
Mike Caldwell, Director of Program Development, Idaho Digital Learning, USA
“Our technicians have said that it did not take a lot of effort to add it.”
Oliver Gliß, Webmaster Media & Communications Dept., VfL Wolfsburg, Germany
“Once we got the code, it was a matter of a few hours of work to get it up and
running.”
Michael Piscopo, Director, Visitmalta, Malta
“Implementation was very easy. The turnaround was fast, efficient, and your
personnel was amazing in this country and in Europe.”
Teresa M. Lee, Webmaster, City of Prattville, Alabama, USA
“Since ReadSpeaker is a web-based software, our implication was limited to the initial
implementation of ReadSpeaker’s HTML-based code in our CMS. Once the
ReadSpeaker code was implemented – and the support we got from the ReadSpeaker
team was A-class, our part of the job was done.”
Michael Clevestig, Manager Online Marketing, SITA, Switzerland
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31. Uses latest web standards
HTML5/CSS
No Flash needed in
modern browsers
Works better in more
devices (such as iOS and
newer Android devices
that don’t have Flash)
32. Enhanced accessibility
Fully keyboard-controllable player
Text-based Listen button
Improved zoom support
Easier to download audio
World: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/8_september_international_literacy_day_793_million_adults_can_neither_read_nor_write/ US: http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp Prose literacy: the knowledge and skills needed to perform prose tasks (ieto search, use and comprehend continuous texts. Examples include editorials, news stories, brochures and instructional materials.
http://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/commissioner/remarks2005/12_15_2005.asp Below basic indicates the lowest levels of performance such as signing a form or adding the amounts on a banking deposit slip. Basic means a person can perform simple tasks such as comparing the ticket price of two sporting events or understanding a pamphlet that describes how a person is selected for jury duty.
http://www.interdys.org/ewebeditpro5/upload/DyslexiaBasicsREVMay2012.pdf Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability. Dyslexia refers to a cluster of symptoms, which result in people having difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffanddayna/4263850948/ World: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/ http://www.who.int/blindness/GLOBALDATAFINALforweb.pdf US : http://www.afb.org/section.aspx?SectionID=15&TopicID=413&DocumentID=4900 EU : http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/11/en/844.pdf Low vision definition WHO: moderate and severe visual impairment
WHO : http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2012/en/index.html http://esa.un.org/wpp/population-pyramids/population-pyramids.htm US: http://www.epa.gov/aging/ France: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/tef/tef2012/T12F032/T12F032.pdf
US : http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Older-adults-and-internet-use.aspx