Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ReadSpeaker


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The result was redirect to Hoya Corporation. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:40, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

ReadSpeaker

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Effectively unsourced since its creation in May 2010 (!), with just one press release added intermittently. The article is written like an advertisement (has been since its creation, tagged as such since 2011) and the creator appears to have a COI. A WP:BEFORE does bring up some news bits, but most of them are rehashs of press releases. Nothing constitues significant coverage and just displays another WP:RUNOFTHEMILL case. IceWelder &#91; &#9993; &#93; 18:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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Merge/redirect to Hoya Corporation, which acquired ReadSpeaker in 2017, per Editing policy. Here are sources I found about ReadSpeaker:  The abstract notes: "Nowadays, education systems should offer flexibility to serve any kind of learners, including those with special needs. “Campus Multimodal” project took advantage of Moodle Learning Management System to offer students two reading aid tools: ClaroRead and ReadSpeaker. A pilot test was run with one thousand students during a semester and the mentioned tools usefulness was measured through an interview and user logs. Results confirm the existence of widespread reading and writing problems among higher education students and also the utility of speech technology to minimize them."  The dissertation notes: "The reading and writing support tools incorporated into the English credit recovery course in this study are ReadSpeaker and TextAid. ReadSpeaker is primarily a text-to-speech tool, which can be accessed anywhere in the online course pages. In terms of the typology above, ReadSpeaker provides presentational and translational functionality. Text and words can be highlighted as they are read, customizable options for viewing are present and include the ability to download an mp3 and listen offline or at different speeds. ... ReadSpeaker. ReadSpeaker provides text-to-speech and text-highlighting options integrated into the online course pages. As can be seen from the results below, ReadSpeaker was used by participants in every month of the study with use varying widely across months. ReadSpeaker logged use when a number of characters were selected and played back by a course participant. Individual participant use was not tracked by the tool." Cunard (talk) 22:05, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirecting would be an option, however, merging not so much, given the current state of the article and its content. The two sources you provide are student papers (not exactly reliable sources) and consist largely of mere explanations on how they used the software. I would still favour deletion to make sure the present version cannot be restored by vandalous editors. A redirect may still happen then. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 22:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The first source is a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Procedia and is written by by Library and Information Sciences faculty at the University of Barcelona. I am fine with a protected redirect to prevent vandalism and so that the content can be preserved for merging. Cunard (talk) 22:48, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:43, 2 May 2020 (UTC) <div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 06:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is about the company/organization named ReadSpeaker. None of the references meet the criteria for establishing notability as none provide any in-depth information on the company. Topic fails GNG/NCORP. <b style="font-family: Courier; color: darkgreen;"> HighKing</b>++ 16:30, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: I merged some material in ReadSpeaker to Hoya Corporation and added more content and sources to the section. Cunard (talk) 10:20, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Hoya Corporation. No evidence of independent notability and has already merged the only RS information. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:01, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


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