About Textic

Textic Limited (Textic) is a privately owned computer software company that specialises in the development, marketing and selling of advanced, assistive and creative Internet and mobile technologies.

A guide to the controls available on the standard Textic Toolbar. The functional controls are standard but the visual appearance of the bar design can be changed to suit your company's identity. If you don't want the toolbar, the Toolbox controls offer full flexibility of interface.

Textic announces a new mix-and-match approach to adding vocalisation controls to your website. Don't want the full Toolbar? Then use as many or as few of the controls from the Toolbox as you like.

Talklets from Textic is a high quality Software as a Service (SaaS) text-to-speech (‘vocalisation’) system for websites. which reads out web text on demand in a clear, life-like voice.

Talklets is a sophisticated text-to-speech system for use on websites. Talklets reads text quickly and clearly in a lifelike voice. To use Talklets on your PC or Mac, we recommend the following specification hardware and software.

Textic, the company behind Talklets, has developed breakthrough technology for turning web content into speech, inspired by a determination to find a better way for people to gain easy access to the web and to be able to use the web's resources more comfortably. Part of the motivation for this was that several core members of Textic suffer from reading impairments, including dyslexia.

We have worked hard to make Talklets as accessible as possible to all users so have included a range of 'hotkeys' which allow Talklets to be controlled by the use of keyboard strokes rather than a mouse.

Right click functionality is available as a standard Talklets feature, giving access to a spoken dictionary and thesaurus as well as the option of a custom 'jargon buster' dictionary.

The standard Talklets Toolbar includes a simple screen or text zoom facility to assist with accessibility on pages with small type.

The ability to save any web text as an MP3 file allows the option to save content for later listening, or for transfer to a mobile device such as an iPod.

The Talklets system is designed to function with a variety of voice fonts including several UK/USA English voices, plus a suite of other major European languages

Flash movies can, of course, be built to talk, but not strictly in the sense of the audio content being accessible to users of assistive technologies.