Ghotit Offers New Tool Free to Schools

New Dyslexic Spell checker for Applications Coming from Ghotit

I posted recently on the new text to speech addition to Ghotit, the spell checker for the dyslexic. Ofer let me know that they are excited to have a new plug-in version that should be coming out in another month or so. The plug-in allows the Ghotit tool to be on your computer and work directly with the application rather than have the online version open in a browser while you work.
He has shared that this new software will be made available to schools free of charge to put on their computers for students that have this as part of their IEP (at least that is my understanding at this point). He only asks that there be a credit and a link on the school home page somewhere to let people know about it.
If you would like to explore this option, please contact Ofer Chermesh by email at:
ofer.chermesh@gmail.com

All the best to you!
Lon




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Ghotit Adds Text to Speech to Spell Checker

I have been sharing the tool, Ghotit, which is an online spellechecker since I had the inventor and CEO, Ofer Chermish, on No Limits 2 Learning Live several months ago. This spell checker is designed to assist the dyslexic in correcting words in their written text by having the Ghotit site up on the screen in the background, and copying and pasting text in, doing the check and the right-clicking words that are red (for misspelled words) and blue (for suspected misspelled words.)

Ghotit has started offering a free addition to the already free online tool. A text to speech engine can be downloaded so that when you are on the site, you have some extra buttons that operate the text to speech. This enables you to hear the errors made through the mis-pronunciation. The new buttons are a talk button and a settings button. The settings button sets the speech voice you want to use from a pull-down menu that of choices already on your computer, the language, rate and volume.

The text to speech addition adds another aspect to this helpful tool that will specifically identify errors for the dyslexic writer. If you have issues with spelling, you might want to check it out.



All the best to you!

lon

Dyslexic Spell Checker "Ghotit" CEO Live from Israel

No Limits to Learning Live will stream live from Israel with Ofer Chermesh Tuesday, May 20, 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

The phone rang this morning and I heard a warm voice greet me. Ofer was calling on a pre-arranged call to discuss his company and online service, "Ghotit" for "Got it". I had no idea where he lives and as we began to discuss time changes, it came out that he was calling from Israel! I am always amazed at how the Internet truly makes us a global community.

We had a great visit over his early frustrations with being dyslexic and the avoidance of writing. As an adult, Ofer had to overcome these frustrations in order to succeed. He is an accomplished professional with a background in management and marketing. He believes that having a spell-checker tool specifically designed to solve the unique problems of dyslexic writers gives them the support they need to be able to be on a level playing field with others in the work-world.

We discussed future plans, his vision, mission statement and his philosophy on success vs. limitation and generally got to discuss our families, goals, how the software was designed - even the unique Hebrew meaning behind his first name (you will have to listen to find that one out!)

Please don't miss what I GUARANTEEE to be an inspiring and rewarding investment of your listening time. I will post another reminder on my blog next week and it will also be on the sidebar as an archive after the interview. There will also be promotional links, a program segment description and blog post on the Blog Talk Radio site.

Ofer extends his personal invitation to you to call in during the live stream if you have any questions or comments for him so go to the No Limits to Learning Live area and click on the program segment to call in the morning of the streamed broadcast. If you visit the blog talk radio site and enjoy the interviews, give me a star rating to help out my ranking there. I would appreciate it!

All the best to you!

Lon