 Texas Speech came into my life probably my last year in college, right coming out when I started to move away from tape recorders and tapes. I had volunteers in college that actually would tape my textbooks and they would sit hours and hours of putting text books and content on tapes. And back then we used something called a four track tape recorder so you could put more information onto these tapes and then I'm able to listen through it and then get the information and the content. Texas Speech came along and it was somewhere in the early 90s when I transitioned out of college that I started using it in my work environment. There's lots of different versions of assistive technology, pretty much doing the same thing but some different features with them. So I'm able to highlight text and have it read back to me. I can choose different voices for the text depending on if I want a gender specific voice. Do different languages also and a lot of these Texas Speech they just ensure that not only am I looking actually at the content I'm also hearing it. So I'm double checking myself so I'm not relying on it just on myself. Today I use Texas Speech in a variety of methods. On the job when I get in I need to actually read an article or a white paper or I will actually open up the Texas Speech and then highlight it and then we'll read it back to me. Sometimes I have it hover on my desktop so if I'm using my mouse and I'm hovering through specific icons it will read it back to me just to make sure I'm actually hearing what I'm seeing. And then from a home standpoint from kind of a social aspect of it reading the news making sure that I stay on top of current events. If there's not a video or something tied to it I used to love watching TV then I want to be able to pull up the New York Times or whatever post I may be looking at. Highlight it and have it read back to me. Texas Speech is used not only from a software application standpoint but also is used from Hardwell. So most people know now Texas Speech is voice over on the iPhone. So you click three times on your iPhone and voice over comes on and you start listening to it. And it can read emails, it can read the news, it can take you wherever you need to go. And you can actually hear the Texas Speech which is just so beneficial. It's so much more involved in the mainstream now. Whereas before you had to buy it from an assistive technology vendor. Now it's incorporated into the applications themselves like the iPhone. So it's pretty intuitive. Texas Speech is not a difficult application to learn. Incorporating Texas Speech for a child can change their lives in so many ways. They now have access to content, they have access to textbooks, they have access to books that they may just read on their own for pleasure. They can actually use it in the workplace. So if down the road as they transition from K-12 to post-secondary the reading increases in a post-secondary environment. So they have to be able to read things just as fast as everyone else.