Kurzweil 3000 PC

• Product Names: Kurzweil 3000 for PC
• Manufacturer/Publisher: Kurzweil Educational Systems

Kurzweil 3000 PC is a scanning and reading tool with visual and auditory feedback

If it is difficult for you to read printed material from textbooks, magazines or the World Wide Web, then Kurzweil 3000will provide text to speech facilities. Kurzweil 3000 offers a combined scanning and reading application that lets you convert printed text into audio feedback simply and easily. Because of its accurate and reliable OCR engine, Kurzweil 3000 is capable of reproducing text on screen, with pictures, as it appears on paper. It also helps reading and learning to read by highlighting both the line and word as it is read.

Kurzweil 3000 also includes a number of study skills tools such as bookmarks, highlighting and sticky notes, which help users improve their reading comprehension. Because it can store the settings of each user, Kurzweil 3000 is particularly useful for resource centres. Kurzweil 3000 for PC is also multi-lingual offering speech and dictionaries in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. ESL options support learners of English as Second Language or students studying foreign languages.

Kurzweil is available in three versions:

• Professional Colour has all the reading and scanning functions and scans in colour.
• Professional Mono has all the reading and scanning functions, but does not scan in colour.
• Learn Station (Read only) has all the reading functions but does not scan.
• Highlights text in context with pictures
• Scans images and displays in colour or black-and-white (Black and White is much faster, so ideal for large amounts of text)
• Reads text aloud to students at their own pace
• Overviews a document by reading just the headings in the text
• Allows the user control over text editing and formatting
• Speaks words while typing
• Reads its dictionary and thesaurus entries aloud
• Takes notes and adds to a document
• Homophone checker
• Imports and exports 100 different file formats
• Learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) and learners of other languages can get bilingual definitions (in English as well as in the other language) of new or unfamiliar words. It even switches from an English to a Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Dutch voice to help with correct pronunciation of words in different languages. Can sound words out phonetically, syllable by syllable to help with segmentation.
• Usage log tracks which features students use
• You can highlight passages yourself in 4 colours and store these notes to disk as your note file
• Reads aloud text in a Web Page
• Text can be read aloud as it is typed in, either by each letter or each word. Other writing tools include a speech-enabled spell checker and a word predictor
• Compatible with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Speech recognition software.
• Convert speech output into an MP3 or WAV file.
• Open .doc files - users can open and save documents in Microsoft Word format
• Pronunciation editor - Allows global changes in the synthesized pronunciation of words. Users can fix errors and adjust pronunciation of specific words without the need for repeated correction throughout a document
• Open and read documents in PDF format
• Send to E-mail feature - Compose a note within Kurzweil 3000, and send it via the e-mail application of your choice such as Outlook Eudora or Netscape
• Drag and Drop - Kurzweil lets you select and drag text from source material into a new document
• Users can extract highlighted words and phrases to a separate file
• Multipage colour TIFF files allows high-speed production of .kes files - allows the copying of multiple full colour pages as intermediate TIFF images prepared for subsequent processing into .kes files
• Page number matching enables users to make scanned page numbers consistent with actual page numbers
• Includes latest Realspeak voice for highly realistic text to speech feedback

You will need:

• Windows 2000 or later including Windows Vista
• Processor 1 GHz (or faster)
• 512MB RAM
• 1.7GB hard disk space
• 2MB Video RAM or better
• CD-ROM drive
• 16 bit sound card and speakers
• 800 x 600 pixels Screen resolution
• Scanner: TWAIN compatible

If you wish to update your current version of this product, you may be eligible for a discount. Please call on 01223 420101 for details on how to order.

N.B. These licences are special order items and therefore non-refundable, unless faulty.