Read & Write Gold

Product Names: Read & Write Gold
Manufacturer/Publisher: Texthelp Ltd

Read and Write Gold the text to speech software, provides literacy support for dyslexic people

For those people who struggle with reading and writing due to disabilities such as dyslexia; text to speech software is the perfect solution.

Read and Write Gold is an easy to use toolbar which sits discreetly on top of any open Windows application. Users are given the opportunity to work in an inclusive manner with their peers by offering additional support when reading or composing text by providing text-to-speech facilities throughout the software program; making it an ideal solution for literacy difficulties, people who have dyslexia or for those learning English as a second language.

Benefits for Reading:

New to Read and Write Gold is Screen Masking which benefits the user by blocking any text not being read to provide a valuable concentration aid. Other options include; whole screen tinting, underlining the line being typed to help with tracking and others.

Read & Write text-to-speech feature offers a simple and accurate way to read text, from word documents, email and from the web. The software will provide audio-visual reinforcement when the option for words to be highlighted is chosen. High quality natural sounding voices are available, including New Tim and Tina.

PDF Aloud will enable the user to read PDF files.

The Scanning option provides OCR (Optical Character Recognition) facilities which allow the user to scan a text document such as letter or a page from a book to convert it into a readable format.

The Enhanced Screenshot Reader makes inaccessible text which is on the screen accessible; which now has the option to save to MS Word.

Read & Write Gold toolbar showing Screen Mask with Homophone facility

Benefits for Writing:

New Translator is a simple tool that provides easy access to the Spanish, French, German or Italian translations of English words. Works with any digital content, on-screen selections, accessible applications, website content or digital textbooks.

Enhanced Spell Checker corrects even more spelling mistakes than before. Corrections are based on the users own spelling patterns. Dictionary definitions of the suggested corrections can be read aloud.

Enhanced Sounds-like will highlight the homophones in the passage of text being written and will offer solutions which can be read aloud. Words such as 'there', 'they're', and 'their' where the sound of the word is correct but the context maybe wrong.

Enhanced Predictions; TextHelp word prediction is a very useful tool which will learn the users vocabulary and provide dyslexic people the opportunity to have the correct spelling at their fingertips, as unusual spelling can be added to the dictionary.

Enhanced; The talking Dictionary can be accessed from any application and is an invaluable comprehensive writing aid.

Benefits for Research:

The Fact Folder from Read and Write 9 Gold will enables the collation of key facts from websites and other applications with the date and website address being automatically saved; ideal for any bibliography that maybe required.