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Robert Basler
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Date Posted: 13:57:15 12/06/04 Mon
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Aurora Suite 2005 offers a double-shot of accessibility features in one flexible, high-quality solution for people with Learning Disabilities and Dyslexia.
Aurora Prediction is surprisingly effective word prediction, a talking spellchecker and homonyms assistance that helps you type emails, instant message to friends, write documents or do any other task that requires typing. Prediction works with whatever applications you use to save keystrokes, get punctuation and capitalization right, and assures you write the best you can.
Aurora Echo provides simple screenreading and a complete range of readback tools to help you be sure you get your ideas down on paper. You can use Echo to read your documents, emails, web pages and even application menus aloud, highlighting each word as it is spoken.
Aurora Suite 2005 is available in three Editions. For people with Learning Disabilities or Dyslexia Aurora recommends:
* Professional Edition - the most effective assistance for learning disabilities.
* Standard Edition - enhanced support for learning disabilities.
* Value Edition - basic support for learning disabilities.
Some of the features in Aurora Suite 2005 are:
* Aurora Prediction is advanced, effective word completion and prediction that learns your writing style, and works with all the applications you need it to.
o Phonetic word completion helps guess the word you're typing even if you spell it wrong.
o Talking Spellchecker works with any application and is tuned to the needs of the most creative spellers.
o Automatic Spelling Corrections correct common misspellings instantly. Add your own with the touch of a button.
o Homonym alert, definitions, and usage examples for over 2100 homonyms make sure you use the right word.
o Grammatical Rules help the word prediction system give you better suggestions.
o AutoPunctuation, AutoCapitalization and AutoSpacing save keystrokes by typing spaces and capitals where you need them.
o Pretrained English word prediction vocabularies from 1,900 to 625,000 words, many including 20,000 common names and places.
o Additional language dictionaries for UK English, French, German, Italian, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish, Polish and Portuguese.
o The Dictionary Editor allows you to edit your dictionary, or even import vocabulary from documents you've written to get prediction up to speed on your writing style.
o Placing the mouse over a homonym or other macro displays its full text in a tooltip.
o For people who have difficulty with next word prediction, it can be turned off.
o The Prediction window can display up to 40 words to select from.
o Recently added words can get an additional priority boost.
* Aurora Echo is a simple screenreader that reads documents, email or web pages when reading is a chore.
o Read Marked Block lets you use the mouse to mark text in email, web pages, or word processor documents for reading.
o Read Button or Window turns Aurora Echo into a screenreader, reading anything you put the mouse over.
o Aurora Echo offers spoken feedback as you type so you can hear if you make mistakes.
o Echo has a new button to stop the speech synthesizer while it is speaking. Prediction and Talk offer this as a menu item.
o Run-on-Sentence alert lets you know when it is time to consider adding some punctuation.
o Punctuation Monitoring reminds you when you start a question, but don't finish it with a question mark.
* Synthesized Speech.
o Microsoft Speech API Version 4 and 5 speech synthesizers are supported making Aurora compatible with nearly all modern software speech synthesizers.
o Visual Highlighting for speech output, highlighting each word as it is spoken, with complete visual customization of font, size and colors.
o Pronunciation correction system assures words are always pronounced correctly by the speech synthesizer.
o Microsoft English synthesizers are included, additional L&H synthesizers for American English, British English, French, Spanish, Russian, Portugese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, German and Dutch are available by download.
* Aurora Talk provides fast and easy conversational speech output for public speaking or day-to-day discussions.
* Feature Editor's fine grained feature control lets teachers control exactly what help Aurora Suite offers students.
* 168 page printed User's Guide covers Aurora Suite's features in detail.
* Telephone, Web and Email support assures you won't waste time finding solutions to any problems you might have.
* Foreign Languages are better supported now that Aurora is user-translateable and all UNICODE.
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