Parents' Guide to

vozMe

By Erin Brereton, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 6+

Bare-bones text-to-audio conversion tool offers no extras.

Website http://vozme.com/
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What’s It About?

VozMe is a no-frills site that converts user-entered text into MP3s. You can choose a male or a female voice and listen to it or save the file to your computer. A browser bookmarklet lets you highlight text you'd like to hear on a Web page. VozMe has very little content, and the narration sounds fairly computerized, so it may not help kids understand elements such as intonation or cadence. However, ESL learners and other kids who'd benefit from simply being able to hear phrases may find the site useful.

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The site's text-to-speech function is its main selling point; vozMe doesn't provide any other information or activities. Users can key in and listen to words, phrases, and longer passages in Spanish, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, Catalan, and English. Kids learning one of those languages may find vozMe beneficial. However, they'll need to be able to type (and spell) any words they'd like to hear; there’s no translation option. Struggling readers and other kids who would benefit from entering text or highlighting Web page content and hearing it read aloud also could potentially use the site to strengthen their reading and pronunciation skills.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • What skills does it take to learn a new language? Ask your kids how it feels to hear words as opposed to simply seeing them on the page.

  • How could vozMe help your child edit reports, papers, and other items? Why is it a good idea to read over what you've written?

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