Looking for a quick way to get a Braille or audio document? Don't have immediate access to Duxbury or text-to-speech software? Have no fear, Robobraille is here! I'm pretty quick on the short document conversions most of the time, folks, but this is way faster. Get your accessible file in just a few minutes. I sent a file of about 10 pages and got the MP3 back in 4 minutes. Your time will vary based on server traffic.
Completely free to non-commercial users (that's you, students!), simply send the document you want converted to sixdot@robobraille.org (for Braille) or usspeech@robobraille.org (for MP3 audio). For a more...unique... experience with audio, send it to britspeech@robobraille.org and receive a British English audio file. Other Braille language files are also supported. It's a good idea to read through the instructions, as it contains ways to tweak your files to fit you, such as the audio speed.
Currently, MS Word documents, plain text, and RTF files are supported. They anticipate supporting PDF files (woohoo!) in the near future.
This nifty service was formed by a partnership of a number of European agencies. If you like the service, send them a donation to keep it free for non-commercial users.
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