My brother is 48 years old, 90% deaf, and never learnt even the basics of 
reading and writing. He can lip read to a degree. He has started night 
classes and is doing reasonably well, however, he doesn't get on with the 
dictionary. He finds it difficult to pronounce the words and has had an idea 
which he thinks would help. He calls it a talking dictionary which would be 
online or in the form of a DVD. A pair of lips or a face would be on the 
screen, you type in the word or phrase and the lips would speak them. We 
googled and came up with lots of talking dictionaries but not with the 
graphics. Does anyone know of one on the internet or in the shops which 
would facilitate.

Tia

Tom

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:13:40 +0000, Bazjaq wrote:

> My brother is 48 years old, 90% deaf, and never learnt even the basics of 
> reading and writing. He can lip read to a degree. He has started night 
> classes and is doing reasonably well, however, he doesn't get on with the 
> dictionary. He finds it difficult to pronounce the words and has had an idea 
> which he thinks would help. He calls it a talking dictionary which would be 
> online or in the form of a DVD. A pair of lips or a face would be on the 
> screen, you type in the word or phrase and the lips would speak them. We 
> googled and came up with lots of talking dictionaries but not with the 
> graphics. Does anyone know of one on the internet or in the shops which 
> would facilitate.
> 
> Tia
> 
> Tom

I doubt there is anything like that around. The costs of producing it
would  be to high for the limited market. Can you not pronounce the words
for him until he gets a grasp of how they are pronounced? Maybe do it on 
a video and transfer it to CD.