However, please contact your Regional Centre who can talk with you about the services and support that you need. The course materials in alternative formats section of this website lists courses that have audio recordings of printed text.
Some courses have their study texts on a CD-ROM or computer disk.
This will allow texts to be read in your preferred way if you have a computer with synthetic speech, text magnification, etc. Contact your nearest OU Regional Centre to check if your course has this available. ReadOut course material ReadOut is a new service that presents study texts on CD-ROM, together with a natural speech, digital audio recording of the same material. Navigational software is also included to help you easily find your way around both the CD-ROM and the recording. Some ReadOut materials also contain textual and audio descriptions of pictures and diagrams in the study texts.