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An enrollment System must have certain properties in addition to those in Systems for fluent readers in order to Support users who are non-readers and users without acceSS to display devices. In accordance with the inventive arrangements, the most important additional property is an ability to read the text to the user before expecting the user to read the text. This can be accomplished by using text-to speech (TTS) tuned to ensure that the audible output faith fully produces the words with the correct pronunciation for the text, or by using recorded audio. Given adequate System resources, recorded audio is presently preferred as Sounding more natural, but in Systems with limited resources, for example handheld devices in a client-server system, TTS can be a better choice.