Read & Write Gold Mac

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

Read and Write Gold for Mac text to speech software offers a comprehensive reading and writing tool for literacy support – designed to help people with dyslexia

The fully compatible tool bar with Microsoft Word for MAC 2008 and safari Mac users are provided with the same level of support as PC users. The host of reading, writing and study skills features provides a user-friendly solution for struggling learner.

Where assistance is required in other applications, the software can be used as a standalone application encouraging independent learning and developing literacy skills. Read and Write 4 Gold for Mac can assist users with literacy difficulties, dyslexia and English as a second language.

Features and benefits of Read & Write Gold for Mac:

READING:

• Floating Tool Bar: Flexible Toolbar can be locked in position so it is available for use in Microsoft Word 2008, safari and other applications.  Toolbar can be customised to the user's requirements.
• Reading Web Pages: text can now be read from safari and there is no need to click anywhere to select text. Sentences start from hyperlink. Particularly useful for users with dexterity difficulties.
• One Touch Scanning: hard copy documents can now be converted at a click of a button. The software benefits from ABBYY fine readers highly accurate OCR.
• New Voices: Texthelps new voice Tina and Tim provide high quality text to speech feedback, designed to enhance the users listening experience.
• PDF Aloud: most accurate PDF reader available, simply select the text to be read and click on play on the PDF aloud toolbar. Click and Play allows users to navigate to the exact part of text wishing to be read.
• Speech Maker: Simply select the text you would like to convert to audio and click on speech maker to covert files to MP3 or AIFF formats.

WRITING:

• Enhanced Phonetic Spell Checker: corrections based on your own spelling patterns and dictionary definitions of the suggested correction can be read out aloud. Major update to phonetic map, returning more appropriate suggestions.
• Enhanced Homophone support: verify suggested homophones of similar sounding words by reading out aloud.
• Dictionary: talking dictionary supports writing and ensures correct words are being used.

RESEARCH AND STUDY SKILLS:

• Study Skills Tools: highlighting, collecting text can now be accessed from Safari as well as MS word 2008.
• NEW Fact Mapper: useful visual tool for generating ideas. Fact mapper can be used a brainstorming tool or to map out ideas with groups. Fact mapper is now available as a online applications

Features:

• Integration with MS Word 2008
• Texthelp Voices, Tim and Tina
• Fact Mapper
• Study skills tools
• Safari web highlighting
• Scanning
• Phonics spell checker
• Homophone Support
• Word Prediction

Read & Write 4 Gold for Mac – enhancements & improvements

NEW Screenshot Reader
• Screenshot using selection rectangle and word highlighting on the screen
• Screenshot read text into MS Word
• Options to change highlight colours

NEW Screen Masking
• Ability to mask out whole screen using a transparent overlay using any colour
• Use the mouse spotlight to unmask areas surrounding the mouse pointer
• Ability to underline the mouse pointer

Improvements to dictionary
• Ability to get definitions from online dictionary

Improvements to Study Skills
• Safari highlights now captured into MS Word

Improvements to Speech
• Speak as I type added when typing in MS Word

Improvements to Scanning
• Ability to scan from a PDF file

Mobile Version
• Run RW Mac from a key
• Your settings are stored on the key
• Restore DVD provided for reinstall purposes

Video tours
• Video walkthroughs of the features in the product

Systems Requirements:

• Intel Core Duo
• 1.83GHz Processor
• 512MB RAM (1GB Preferred)
• MAC OS 10.4 or above
• DVD Player(For Installation purposes only)
• 1.5GB Free Disk Space