Screen Reading
Penfriend XL comes with a screen reading and text magnification facility, just click on the folders on your desktop or read web pages and hear them read with native voices. Speak the list of words offered by your word processor's thesaurus or spell checker.
The spoken text is transferred automatically to the clipboard where, if a large font is used, it can be magnified for those with visual impairment. There is an icon in the clipboard which allows you to switch the screen reading on and off at a single click.
It will also speak back the text you are writing. It can be configured to speak each letter as it is typed, each
word as it is completed, and each sentence. It can read words from the prediction list when you point at them, when
you choose them, or automatically when they change. It can also read back whole paragraphs (or more) of text from other
applications using the clipboard. This might be your document, a web page, an email, or almost anything else.
While speaking text from the clipboard, a window can be shown which follows the voice, highlighting each word as it
goes. You can click on a word to hear it again, or to speak a fragment of the text. This can be used in conjunction
with the screen reading to enlarge and highlight words being read from web pages or the desktop.
Spell checking, Thesuarus and DictionaryThe screen reader in Penfriend XL makes it possible read and highlight alterative spellings, synonyms and dictionary meanings available in Microsoft Word. These can all be read out, and if necessary magnified,on a right click.Thus although it does not have a spell checker built in, it gives direct access to the excellent Spell Checking, Thesaurus and Dictionary available in MS Word.
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