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Snoezelen Rooms: Benefits & How to Use One
Sensory or “Snoezelen” Rooms are spaces within which people can experience calming, enjoyment, targeted stimulation & therapy and communication opportunities.
The dark space, sometimes combined with glowing objects, is also a way to reach children with CVI or profound learning difficulties, as it removes visual distractions and heightens focus.
Presented by a Sensory Integration trained Occupational Therapist, you'll learn about the multiple benefits and applications of sensory rooms, as we show you examples of this beautiful technology.
For any centre or school considering installing a Snoezelen Room, this course provides valuable information about what to consider.
Details: Full day. Light Lunch included. Includes printed notes. Agenda available on request.
Relevant for: Educators, Therapists, Parents
Details: 1 day course, light lunch included.
Cost: Dependant on location, venue & number of participants
What people said...
Excellent course, well researched with relevant information.
– G.E.
Very valuable regarding the need for a Snoezelen room, and how to equip it. I loved the assessment tools included. Thanks!
– S.K.
I would like to make use of this opportunity to say thank you for the amazing course, one of the best and most informative I have attended in a long time.
– S.D.T
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Featured Products
qfrency south AfricaN voices
text-to-speech in SA languages
WINNER OF THE ICT ACHIEVERS AWARD 2016 FOR ACCESSIBILITY EXCELLENCE
The Qfrency Voices are SA’s first range of high-quality, computer synthesised voices with local accents and local languages.
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Automated speech is more flexible, saves time & money over human recordings
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Improves public understanding of instructions and information
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Increases customer satisfaction & loyalty with use of home language
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Allows use of your preferred language for assistive technologies such as speech replacement (AAC), screen-reading, spell checking & educational tools
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Wide range of other applications for research, commerce, banking and government
What is
Text-to-Speech?
Text-to-Speech (TTS) is the conversion of digital text into a computer synthesised spoken message. Originally developed to help people with a visual impairment, computers could ‘read aloud’ any text that was typed.
Synthesised speech is now widely used in technology, business, government, academic and disability applications – examples include Sat Nav systems telling you where to go; talking smartphones telling you about the weather; or low-vision software reading the contents of your screen to you. For people who cannot speak, computer generated speech can also become their way of communicating.
The uses are many and varied. Anybody using computer generated speech for any purpose, will now be able to have messages produced by this affordable software, in local South African languages, including English with a South African accent.
How does it work?
Speech synthesis is usually created by collecting a huge database of recorded speech in a certain language. Narrators would read from a variety of texts, in order to have a full and varied collection of sounds, aiming to include every possible sound from that language in the database.
Those recordings are then ‘sliced’ up into tiny sound pieces, which represent vowels, phonemes, consonants etc. and the way they vary in different contexts. A sophisticated analysis then takes place, matching those sounds to written words. Once a voice is created, it knows how to pronounce the words and sounds from that particular language, and can read text aloud in a natural sounding way.
When computers, smartphones, answering systems etc. speak to us, they are simply using a synthesised voice to read a portion of text aloud.
Languages
The SA Voices are available in male and female options for most languages, and in Standard or Premium quality.
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Afrikaans male and female
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English male and female
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Afrikaans male child
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isiXhosa male and female
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isiZulu male and female
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Sepedi male and female
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isiNdebele male
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Tshivenda male
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Sesotho female
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Setswana female
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SiSwati female
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Xitsonga female
No longer will you need to spend a lot of money and time on human recordings of hundreds of messages, or rely on speech synthesis with a foreign accent . Local really is Lekker.
Technical Information
Speech Synthesis Service
Do you need to generate audio files for integration into an IVR system, or to include in your training materials? Talk to us about the easier way of getting those sound files - no more voice artists, costly studios, standardisation issues...
Windows
Install a voice and have your documents, browser, PDF's etc. read aloud in the language of your choice. Or, use this as your voice if you have a communication impairment. Ideal for reading, dyslexia support or visual impairment.
Voices are available for Windows 7, 8 and 10 devices, for use with any SAPI 5 speech compatible software. Also compatible with Windows 8 and 10 Ease of Access ‘Narrator’ tool for screen reading capability. Multi-user licenses for schools / organisations and annual subscriptions are available too.
Android
Voices for Android are in development... watch this space!
iOS and Others
There is a Software Development Kit (SDK) and API for integrating the voices into your bespoke projects. Please contact us for further information.
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Try the Voices
The demo audio file is made available for non-commercial demonstration purposes only. Note that all synthesis requests are logged. This demo does not include the proper name pronunciation extensions.
You can test the voices by writing anything into the text box below. Select your language, enter some text in the same language, then click 'Generate Audio' to hear it pronounced by the voice of your choice. This will generate a .wav file which you can download to listen. The voices marked DNN are our latest Deep Neural Network voices.
Download a Free Trial
You can download a free 7 day trial for Windows. The voice will be installed on your device and you will then need to utilise your usual speech synthesising software to access or 'call' the voice. Examples include communication software, screen-reading software, Narrator accessibility tool, JAWS, ClaroRead, Grid 3 etc.
Compatible Software
V-Soft Exam Portal
Make your school's exams accessible to students with reading or writing difficulties.
