Talklets: Enabling speech from a website

There is an interesting speech enabling development by Textic Ltd, the same company who produce the toolbar that allows the view of a website to be altered as demonstrated at the BDA website. Talklets can either be used as an extension to a website, or a subscription for an individual.

Talklets provides a service where a suitably enabled website will be "spoken" to the reader on their machine. No special software needs to be installed on the client machine, as long as a the machine can play a common sound file type called an MP3 then you are ready to go.

Talklets for websites
Adding Textic Talklets to your website is very easy. Talklets is provided as true 'Software as a Service', so no integration with your website code or hardware is required beyond the addition of some brief lines of script to each page to be speech enabled.

How much does it cost?
The cost of adding Talklets to your website depends on the nature of your site and its traffic levels, plus which options you choose. The aim is to provide a highly cost effective and value-adding service that will increase 'stickiness', repeat visits and, on commercial sites, impact the bottom line.

Request a trial and Talklets will respond with a cost which you have the option of taking up after a successful trial period; usually two weeks.

Special rates are available for public services, educational and charitable websites.

Talklets for individuals is offered as a subscription service allowing you to activate an easy-to-use speech control toolbar at the bottom of your web browser screen. A FREE version is available that will work on a limited range of 'Favourites' websites, allowing you to test Talklets without the need even to register.

The free to download version of Talklets will currently work on the following websites:

As well as many other sites that already have Talklets embedded in them. The above list will change from time to time. You can subscribe to Talklets at any time to allow you to bring any website to life with speech.

Subscribing to Talklets for web costs £3.99 per month for unlimited talk time to use on any website you visit. Extra languages and functions can be added from just 99p per month including Talklets Safe & Sound Text, from September 1st, 2007.

The above article is produced from extracts from the Talklets webste at www.talklets.com