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and the 3000 is that the latter, designed for persons with learning disabilities, supports
graphics, and allows students to visually read on an exact scan of a page.
New Features of Version 7:
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Accurate optical character recognition (OCR)
Kurzweil 1000 incorporates multiple OCR engines which are updated continuously to
provide the most accurate available recognition of pages in their original format.
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Clear, flexible synthetic speech
The human sounding RealSpeak™ and responsive IBM Via Voice™ **distinguish
Kurzweil 1000's superior text to speech (TTS) options. For those users who prefer
hardware speech synthesizers, Version 7 supports DECTalk Express, DoubleTalk LT,
and TripleTalk for Microsoft Windows® NT, 2000, and XP.
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Multi Language support
Kurzweil 1000 can recognise text in over 170 languages and can read text aloud in
English, British English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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Flexible editing and text management tools
Kurzweil 1000 has an easy to use text editor, dictionary and thesaurus, allowing
accessible modification and mastery of existing documents and easy creation of new
ones. Users can set the product to speak as they type each letter or word. Study tools
such as bookmarks, annotations, skimming and summarisation add further
reinforcement.
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Easier access to online books
Users can more quickly obtain online e-books because Kurzweil 1000 efficiently
performs title or author searches of multiple websites, presents choices for download
and retrieves books - without the need for manual searches of individual websites.
What's more, the new book feature in Version 7 includes a direct connection to
Bookshare.org, the online community that allows people with reading-related
disabilities to legally download thousands of copyrighted books. Users can not only
access Bookshare.org more easily from within Kurzweil 1000, they also get a free 30-
day trial membership with their Kurzweil 1000 purchase.
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Low Vision Features
In addition to display, magnification and highlighting of text as it is read aloud,
Kurzweil 1000 can retain and enhance images from scanned pages.
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Sending files to portable devices
Kurzweil 1000 can send files to Braille Note, Blazie and Road Runner devices,
creating new options for making work, correspondence and pleasure reading portable
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Layout exploration and navigation
Kurzweil 1000 can identify the position and sequence of words, blocks of text, or
regions containing images, enhancing not only navigating but understanding a
document as a whole.
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