New Products on the Market

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New Products on the Market

• Julian Young
• Marketing Manager
• iANSYST

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New products on the Market

• textHELP releases
• SpeakOut
• Dragon
• OCR software
• Reading Pen
• Portable Word Processors
• Concept Mapping
• Colour visual stress
• Wordbar

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textHelp Read Write v6

• What it is ..
• Phonetic spellchecker
• Speech enables many applications
• Word Prediction
• Homophone checker
• Thesaurus, dictionary word wizard
• Speech enabled calculator
• An extensive reading writing tool

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Read Write v7 StandardSingle user 140 VAT

• Same feature set but improved.
• Many more customisation features making it easier
  to tailor to the individual including
• altering the look of the toolbar

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Read Write v7 Standard

• Spell Checker
• over 200 phonetic maps now provided. E.g. ite
  ight fi phy
• Speech
• Improved reading of web pages including
  highlighting
• Automatically reads next block of text
• Reads DAISY format ebooks.
• Dictionary homophones
• choose between simple or advanced definitions.
• add your own words and definitions.

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Read Write v7 Standard

• Word prediction has been re-vamped. Now
• Faster to load predict with a much larger word
  list.
• Indicates homophones in suggestion list.
• Suggestions link to the dictionary to provide
  definitions or alternatives words.
• Up to 32 subject specific word lists can be added
  including medical, science and childrens
  English.
• User specific word lists can be created through
  the Teachers Toolkit.

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Read Write v7 GoldSingle user 320 VAT

• All the tools that are in Read Write Standard
  plus
• OCR scanning software
• Fact Finder
• Fact Folder
• Speech Maker
• Speech enabled scientific calculator
• Pronunciation tutor

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Read Write v7 GoldSingle user 320 VAT

• Fact Folder research revision tool now enables
• file facts in subcategories
• can attach multiple files images to one fact
• can export facts to
• MS Word
• html
• Palm PDA

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Read Write v7 GoldPDF Aloud

• Read Write Gold includes PDF Aloud, a toolbar
  that adds text-to-speech and highlighting to PDF
  files.
• PDF Aloud is also available separately for 59
  VAT

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Read Write for MACSingle user 225 VAT

• Based on the PC version, Read Write for MAC
  provides literacy support alongside other
  applications. Functions include
• speech-enabled phonetic spell checker,
• read back function with highlighting,
• homophone checker,
• word prediction and
• talking dictionary.
• Read Write for Mac also includes PDF Aloud for
  Mac which adds speech with synchronised
  highlighting to your PDF files. Available
  separately for 59 vat.

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SpeakOUT v2Single user 79 VAT

• Text-to-speech toolbar for supporting reading
• Reads out anything on the screen using just the
  mouse buttons to control the speech.
• Hover over a homophone it will give the
  definition.
• Magnification strip and dimming portions of the
  screen help with tracking.
• Supports numerous languages.

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Speech RecognitionDragon NS Preferred v7

• Single user 120.00 VAT
• Educational volume licensing available
• Lower minimum specification than v6 500MHz PC
  with 256MB RAM
• Can automatically insert limited punctuation
• Improved support for digital recorders and PDAs
• Easy to add new words to the dictionary
• Increased accuracy automatically reads your
  documents to learn writing style
• Improved training tools for poor readers.

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Speech Recognition add-onsMathPad

• It performs basic
• addition, subtraction, multiplication and
  division by voice.
• Students are able to check their answers and have
  MathPad read them back.

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Speech Recognition add-onsMathTalk Scientific
Notebook

• MathTalk enables Dragon to work within Scientific
  notebook.
• Enables formulas to be dictated by voice.
• Can solve, evaluate, factor expand, simplify and
  more.
• Also has graphing capabilities.

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The New Oxford Reading PenPrice 169.99 VAT
(VAT exempt)

• Scan in text, hear the word, see hear the
  definition
• Now includes the Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th
  Edition.
• Improved menu structure, scanning accuracy
  screen quality.
• Saves the last 80 words scanned making it a
  useful tool in developing reading skills.
• Access to dictionary definition can be locked to
  enable use under exam conditions.

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Quicktionary SuperPen Professional

• Combines the features of
• QuickLink Scanning Pen with
• Text-to-speech and
• Numerous dictionaries

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Portable Word ProcessorsDana from AlphaSmart

• Runs Palm OS with full-sized keyboard,
• Will be able to run over 10,000 Palm
  applications,
• More applications are being converted to the Dana
  widescreen format including
• Ultrakey typing tutor
• Thoughtmanager,
• Screen is 3.5 times wider than typical PDA
  screens,
• Includes mini-office package that is compatible
  with MS Office,
• Cost 279 VAT.

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Portable Word ProcessorsWireless Dana from
AlphaSmart

• A Dana with built-in support for wireless
  networks is now available enabling
• Quick and easy transfer of files between
  workstations, network and Danas.
• Internet and email access.
• Costs 309 VAT

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New Concept Mapping SoftwareMindFull

• Simple, easy-to-use concept mapping application.
• Designed with dyslexic users in mind so
  functionality has deliberately been kept basic so
  as not to overload the user.
• Map can be developed just through the mouse keys.
• Single user costs 42 VAT (VAT exempt)

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New Concept Mapping SoftwareMindFull
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Concept MappingMind Manager X5 Pro
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Concept MappingMind Manager X5 Pro

• New version of Mind Manager now available.
• Now have more control over layout of map.
• Easily add floating text, images callouts.
• Outline view available (but you cant edit the
  map in this view).
• Very good export to PowerPoint.
• Incorporates its own presentation view.
• Still not intuitive to use as uses its own
  toolbar icons but better than previous versions.

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CHEST National Licences

• MindGenius education and LIFT available to most
  FE and HE institutions.
• Licence lasts two years from Sept 2003
• Available from http//www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/

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Colour Visual Stress ReadAble

• Simple application for setting managing colour
  settings on your PC,
• Can alter the colour of
• Application background
• Menus
• Application frames
• Tooltips and much more,
• Easily override web page settings,
• Multiple users settings can be saved,
• Works across networks,
• Single user 29 VAT,
• Site licences are available.

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OCR Software

• OCR software is needed to convert scanned in
  images to editable text.
• Packages vary in ability to correctly identify
  letters discriminate between images text.
• All packages cannot convert equations into
  editable text they remain as images.

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OCR SoftwareAccuracy

• Abbyy FineReader is the most accurate at
  character recognition zoning.
• But it is more complicated to set up than other
  packages such as OmniPage at least one more
  step involved.
• But good value - 54 for education licence.

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OCR Software text to Speech combined

• Two packages offer a combination of text to
  speech OCR
• TextHELP Read Write Gold (320 VAT)
• Kurzweil 3000 (750 VAT),
• These packages are easier to use for users who
  are
• Scanning in lots of text to have it read back
• Lack confidence with computers.

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OCR Software text to Speech combined

• Kurzweil is very good at reproducing look of
  scanned page but loses formatting when converted
  to an editable file
• best used as a reading tool.
• Read Write Gold scanning accuracy is good but
  cant cope with ADF scanners or long documents
• good as a reading writing tool for users who
  will find OCR software difficult to learn.

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Forthcoming Releases

• Wordbar 2
• Wordbar 2 Home user

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Julian YoungMarketing ManageriANSYST Ltd

• Fen House
• Fen Road
• Cambridge
• CB4 1UN

0800 018 0045 www.dyslexic.com www.iansyst.co.uk j
ulian_at_dyslexic.com