Forum Discussion
Text-to-speech in Rise 360
It's for accessibility purposes. If you have visually impaired learners, or learners whose first language is not English, having an audio functionality is imperative. This is also why most websites now, or news articles have a "listen to this article" feature at the top. It's for accessibility purposes so that everyone can consume your content.
I completely understand and support that audio is required for learners with disabilities and visual impairments, ESL, etc.
For our audience, based on the nature type of work that they do, cannot have physical disabilities like visual impairments.
Based on student surveys and testing, almost without exception, our specific audience prefers not to use audio, as "audio slows down" their learning process. This refers to audio narrations of screen text and would likely include text-to-speech.
Our content is not available to a general audience.