I created this to help my son – maybe you know someone that could use it

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I created this Windows based "text to speech" spelling helper application for my son. My wife and I had to take ourselves out of the weekly, frustrating spelling quiz preparations. My son now aces his spelling tests. Seriously. It's free.

Parents with kids in the lower grades will really dig this.

I created a video tutorial at the link below.

http://www.kpspellhelper.com

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Looks cool. I feel like it might be best to default to google's text-to-speech API if a connection is detected - in the example video, the windows t2s pronunciation sounded like "plum" and the user wouldn't have any other way to know it was pronounced incorrectly until they cross-check with google or spell the word incorrect. After a few mis-pronunciations they'll probably just use the google version every time anyways. Not that it's that big of a deal or anything.

This is so great and sad at the same time.

It is great because you have shared an application that could be useful to a lot of parents. It is sad because you have stolen some parent-time from children.

Only if the saved time is used for something other than parental interaction. It is unlikely that spelling lessons are optimal bonding.

Agreed. For my case, the interaction time preparing for the spelling test were never good. My son's penmanship is not great, so trying to decipher his pencil & paper practice test were tough. He and I both were frustrated - creating this application was a huge win for both of us, and he now gets an "A" on every weekly spelling test. True.

Well done. Great features. I just love simple and practical software. Also thanks for the video. I am installing it for my 5th grader.

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