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Reading Assistance

Various approaches to converting printed text to an understandable form.
Audio Dictionary screen with the word fantastic and its definition and usage.

Software that can look up words in virtually any program with just one click: just hold down the Ctrl key and right-click on the word. The hotkey can be customized, or  a keyboard shortcut can be used if preferred.

Text input window with menu buttons labeled from left to right "clear," "read this for me," and an email icon button above a qwerty keyboard.

A text-to-speech app for compatible iOS, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices.

A window where the user can select the voice they want for text to speech.

A text to speech application, which sits in the taskbar. It can be configured to automatically read whatever is copied to the clipboard, or the clipboard can be read by pressing a hotkey combination. 

Square, handheld device with buttons and speakers on the front plate and cd input at the base.

A player that can record directly to a CD or memory. It plays Daisy CDs, music CDs, MP3 files.

Dark blue ship steering wheel with two sound waves on the upper right and Snap&Read written across the bottom.

Reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from websites, images, photographs, PDFs, web-based tests, and other media. 

MagniLink Read software

MagniLink Read (MLREAD) is a program used in conjunction with a flatbed scanner or a camera scanner to scan an image and convert it into speech using an OCR unit. The text is then converted to speech using a text-to-speech engine.

Screenshot of the ClaroRead toolbar.

ClaroRead is designed to be a simple, easy-to-use, and flexible software program that helps you to read, write, and study. It also lets you read aloud scanned paper books and documents.

iZoom Magnifier/ Reader softare CD-ROM case with apples zoomed in on a computer screen and the iZoom USB version next to it.

IZoom Magnifier/ Reader is a software suitable for low vision users and designed to reduce eye strain.