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ALFa READER 3: an aid for easy reading

 


The best technological solution to effectively compensate reading and writing difficulties.

Alfa Reader 3 is the only software that includes in just one solution:

A VOICE PLAYER that:

  • helps to read texts directly in PDF, Word, Writer and Internet Explorer with the aid of a synthesizer voice that works in karaoke style;
  • reads original files directly, maintaining the original page format and with no need to paste and copy;
  • allows you to stop, slow down, go back or move on to other parts of the page, with immediate visual feedback;
  • allows the simultaneous use of both voice control and spellchecker.

AN EXCLUSIVE PDF ENVIRONMENT that allows the user to:

  • highlight, underline, bar texts;
  • intervene on the graphical elements of the file or insert new ones;
  • enter notes and other comments in text or audio format;
  • insert links to the Internet or to other parts of the same document;
  • insert attachments;
  • import texts and save them in new documents compatible with all major PDF readers;
  • export the whole PDF fileor just a selectionin txt or in hyperMaps (if Erickson hyperMaps is installed);
  • create customized indexes.

A WORK TOOL THAT CAN BE CUSTOMIZED that allows the user to:

  • change the position, size, colors and graphics of the command bar;
  • activate and customize the synchronous highlighting of the text read (different colors for word and sentence read);
  • enlarge the command bar up to three times its original size to respond to the needs of partially sighted users;
  • enable the Echo function in writing for single word (the synthesis reads single word right after it is written), for sentence (synthesis reads the entire sentence) or for single letter (the synthesis reads individually letter by letter once it is typed);
  • choose among 3 preinstalled voices (1 Italian female, 1 Italian male, 1 English). Three more voices (French, Spanish and German) are available and can be purchased to extend the program.

This software is already available and purchasable in the French, Spanish and German editions.

Why use ALFa Reader 3

  • to compensate reading difficulties and dyslexia, at all ages
  • to compensate writing difficulties (dysgraphia and dysorthography)
  • to approach reading in the last year of kindergarten
  • to learn English, French, Spanish and German
  • to learn Italian as L2