ROKTalk is the technology that will make your website more usable by providing text-to-speech software, real-time spoken translation and other accessibility features to all of your visitors.
ROKTalk is delivered as a service by our own secure servers, meaning visitors to your website have nothing to download or install before using the assistive tools – every feature is instantly available to everyone.
Features
- Text-to-speech technology - hear the text on a website read aloud
- Spoken translation (ROKTalk Plus only) - hear the text on a website read aloud in another language
- Save text as mp3 file – take web content with you on your portable music player wherever you go
- Text zoom controls
- Word-by-word text highlighting to make the words easier to read
- Choice of text highlighting colour
- Spoken dictionary – gives an instant definition of any word
- Pronunciation correction – users can let us know of words pronounced incorrectly, and we will fix them
- Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF Document Reader – these files can be read by ROKTalk just like your website
See the Features and Benefits page for a more thorough explanation of the ROKTalk features.
ROKTalk helps web users who are:
- Blind or visually-impaired
- Dyslexic
- Illiterate, or still learning to read
- Functionally illiterate (who may have trouble using computers)
- Reading websites in a foreign language (i.e. non-English speakers)
- Unable to use a mouse
You can choose exactly how you want ROKTalk to look on your website. Our technology is customizable, so it can be designed to fit the look and feel of any site seamlessly. You can design the interface yourself, with your own colour scheme and branding, or ask our design team to produce something that will suit your website perfectly. Read more on our Deployment and Customisation page.
ROKTalk can currently speak web text that is written in English (with US and Scottish voice variants), French, German, Spanish, Polish and Dutch.
To hear just how clear our voices are, please visit our Voice Font Samples page and have a listen to the examples.