Penfriend XL single licence

Product Names: Penfriend
Manufacturer/Publisher: Penfriend Ltd
Model: XL single

Word predictor, screen reader and on-screen keyboard

Penfriend XL is a comprehensive literacy aid which can boost confidence and increase reading and writing skills across a range of abilities and ages. It contains a wealth of features to support learners with reading and writing difficulties, particularly those people with dyslexia or physical/sensory disabilities including visual impairment and motor difficulties.

Penfriend XL works with your word processor and accurately guesses the word you are typing. For example, when you have entered the first or second letter, when the word appears in the prediction window, one key press will finish the word for you. If you want it will offer you the next word as well.

Penfriend XL offers flexible screen reading which reads menus and dialogues on your desktop, web pages (in most browsers), spell checker, thesaurus and dictionaries in Microsoft Word. It will screen read in most European languages for which voices are available.

It is a powerful tool for those learning Foreign Languages (MFL) or English as a second language (ESL).

Penfriend XL offers prediction and on-screen keyboards in English, Gaelic, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Dutch and Swedish.

Features:

Learns new words as you type
Screen reader with text maginification
Over 32 lexicons, currently covering 9 languages
New lexicons can be easily created
Screen reading and text enlargement of menus, pdf documents in Adobe Reader and web pages in most browsers
Abbreviation expansion tool
Volume, pitch and speed control, and a pause can be inserted between words for read back
Optional on-screen keyboard and choice of font, reducing the stress caused by continually looking between desktop keyboard and screen
Choice of background colour, text size, font and colour in prediction window
Each individual users preferences can be saved at the same time as their named lexicon
Penfriend can read from other applications such as web pages and encyclopaedias
Integrates with Clicker 4 and 5.2 providing switch access