If you have a disability that makes it difficult to read print text, you can borrow course literature as talking books. There are also programmes that can help you when you are reading and writing. The programmes can be downloaded by anyone at Malmö University and installed on your computer or phone.

Who can borrow talking books?

If you have difficulty reading printed text due to a disability, you can apply for a Legimus account. The library will help you with this. The Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM) will then decide whether you are eligible for a Legimus account.

Who can borrow talking books?

To start borrowing talking books for your own download, you need a Legimus account. Book an appointment with the library. We will help you apply for a Legimus account and show you how it works.

The Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM), which is responsible for Legimus, will no longer produce all compulsory course materials as audiobooks. This means that the course materials you need may not be available on Legimus during the autumn term.

Using talking books

Once you have received your login you can search for talking books in Legimus. You listen to the books using a reading program on your computer or using the Legimus app on your mobile.

Search in Legimus

If you already have a Legimus account, you do not need to book an appointment for a walk-through, unless you do not want to. However, you need to transfer your account to Malmö University Library. Send us an email with your name, e-mail, and birth date to talbok@mau.se and we will take care of it.

 

When your account is created, you can listen to books from Legimus in various ways.

  • At the webpage legimus.se (in Swedish).
  • With the Legimus app on your phone or tablet.
  • With the program Thorium on your computer.

Download Thorium

If the book is not available in Legimus, do the following:

  • Search in Libsearch to check whether the book is available as an e-book. If the e-book is available in Libsearch, you should use that first. To listen to e-books, you can use the e-book’s own playback function or the Thorium reading programme.

    Search in Libsearch
    Download the Thorium programme
  • If you cannot find the book as an e-book, please get in touch with us, and we will investigate whether the e-book can be purchased for the library or whether the book can be recorded as an audiobook by MTM. 

    Email us at talbok@mau.se

Other things you can do to find your course books:

  • Ask your lecturer if it’s OK to use an earlier edition of the course book. Older editions may be available in Legimus. 
  • The library can still order an audiobook if the e-book you’re trying to read or listen to isn’t sufficiently accessible to you. Please contact us by email at talbok@mau.se.
  • Course materials may be available to buy or hire as e-books via Studora.se or Memmo.org.

Questions about talking books? Contact us!

talbok@mau.se

Programs that help you in your studies

As a student or a member of the staff at the university, there are several programs you can use to get help with reading text aloud, spelling, translation, note-taking, and recording. You can download the programs to your computer or phone.

Product keys or login information can be downloaded here:

  • Log in to IDS
  • Click on "Product keys" in the menu
  • Find the right program in the list and click “Claim Key”
  • Copy the product key

Get Product key - IDS

Speech Synthesis in Microsoft Edge

The Edge browser has a built-in speech synthesis feature that allows you to easily have text read aloud from a web page or a PDF file.

Here's how to do it:

  • Open the page you want to be read aloud in Microsoft Edge.
  • Click on the three dots at the top right corner of the browser. Select "More actions" and then "Read aloud from here".
  • You can also use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+U to open the speech synthesis feature.
  • The reading starts immediately, and the text is highlighted as it goes along.
  • When the speech synthesis feature is open, the start and stop buttons for the tool are located at the top of the page.

A film about how the speech synthesis feature in Edge works (from Uppsala University Library)

TorTalk - for Windows and Mac

A program that highlights and reads text. With TorTalk you are able to have e-books read and locked pdf-files which are not possible to read out loud with other speech syntheses.

When installing TorTalk on your computer you will need a “product key”. See the instructions above.

ClaroRead Pro/Plus

A program that highlights and reads text. The program can also read text written in real time. The program has an OCR scanner that converts image files to text which can be read aloud.

ClaroRead Pro/Plus can be downloaded from SKOLON. To be able to log in to SKOLON you will need a “product key”. See the instructions above.

Claro Bookreader

Reads PDF documents aloud. You can take notes, underline, and do color highlighting in the text.

Download Claro Bookreader (SKOLON)

StavaRex - for PC and Mac

A program that corrects spelling and grammar in Swedish text. These programs are available on our computer systems for exams.

Download StavaRex from SKOLON

Manual for StavaRex (PC) (in Swedish)

Manual for StavaRex Mac (in Swedish)

SpellRight

A program that corrects spelling and grammar in English text.

Manual for SpellRight Mac (in Swedish)

 

 

Claro Ideas

With Claro Ideas you can create mind maps when you need to structure your study material. The mind maps can be exported to Word or PowerPoint.

Download ClaroIdeas from SKOLON

ClaroRead Anywhere

Word processor which can read a written of pasted text aloud. It also includes a dictation function, which converts your talk to text.

Download ClaroRead from SKOLON

Book an appointment to get help with the various programs you can use, and which can help you in your studies.

Learn more about downloading and using assistive computer programs.