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Reading Assistance

Various approaches to converting printed text to an understandable form.
Text "Lexima" written in blue and orange letters.

A mobile software with text recognition and text-to-speech that can read text from paper. Useful for the blind and the illiterate.

A small box-shaped device with a small display panel, four simple buttons, and a large knob dial.

A multi-media device designed for people with a visual or reading impairment to enable them to access audio information and entertainment, including content available on the Internet, without using a computer.

Screenshot of a split screen, on the left side there is a list of article titles and one of them is highlighted and on the right side, appears the full text of the highlighted article.

A free program designed for blind and visually-impaired people that makes RSS feeds accessible.

TalkingWeb app icon, featuring a blue background with compass, speech bubble, and document pages.

Text to speech program for the web.  

A small handheld device featuring an interactive screen, a microphone and speaker above, and control buttons on either side.

A portable and affordable digital audio book player helps students increase their reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. 

On-screen text magnified through use of the program.

Software that works with Freedom Scientific’s PEARL text scanning camera and ONYX Portable HD computer connected video magnifier to read aloud books, magazines, newspapers, documents, prescription labels and other print in a variety of naturally-sounding voices and languages.

Word processing program featuring a selection of text an illustration.

Page scanning software that reads text aloud with adjustable reading speed.

Penfriend XL screen featuring vocabulary word choices next to a sentence.

A screen reader with text magnification, word prediction and on-screen keyboards in many languages.

ALFa READER 3's logo with flash drive as a large play arrow in the center of a lower case letter "d" superimposed on a cursive letter A. There is also an image of a teenage boy with headphones on.

A USB stick software that has text to speech for user's selected word(s) and voice recognition for control of writing, and which also allows the user to read along, all in response to the needs of users with dyslexia or reading difficulties.

Carsten software box with light blue at the top and dark blue at the bottom and the Carsten name on the front.

A Danish language speech synthesis that can be used for internet reading, text processing, emails, spreadsheets, and reading programs for many educational and special programs.