Proloquo 1.1 for Mac
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Speak up and be heard. Proloquo is a multifaceted, multilingual speech sensation that reads out-loud and speaks typed text. Working with SwitchXS, KeyStrokes and the hardware keyboard it offers low vision features and serves as a full-fledged communication solution. Talk all you want courtesy of the Acapela voices in your language of choice. Additional languages are available with the Proloquo Language Packs.
Item# VS3523
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Proloquo is a multi-purpose, multilingual speech solution
for Mac OS X that:
(1) Provides a communication system (AAC) for people who cannot
speak;
(2) Improves accessibility of Mac OS X for people with visual impairments;
(3) Provides speech feedback in any application while typing for children and
people with learning disabilities;
(4) Can serve as a talking word processor;
(5) Provides text to speech for people who prefer listening to reading;
(6) Can be used as a tool to learn the pronunciation of foreign languages;
(7) Provides an advanced, multilingual speech engine for KeyStrokes™ (purchase
separately) an on-screen keyboard and SwitchXS™ (purchase separately) a switch
access solution.
Proloquo includes High Quality and/or High Density Acapela
voices for a language of choice. The languages currently include US English, UK
English, German, Dutch, Flemish, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Swedish,
Norwegian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Acapela voices for additional languages can
be purchased as a language pack. In addition, registered Proloquo users can call
for a discount coupon to purchase Cepstral voices that work not only in Proloquo
but system-wide. Finally, Proloquo works with all the built-in voices of Mac OS
X. Voices are available in US English, French, Spanish and many other languages.
Proloquo is different from Apple’s VoiceOver technology for Mac
OS 10.4. VoiceOver is a screen reader primarily intended for people who are
blind. Proloquo, instead, is a multipurpose speech solution that also includes
certain features geared towards people with low vision (such as the ability to
speak what is below the cursor and to echo what the user types). Additionally,
Proloquo works with high quality voices in multiple languages and works on both
Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Proloquo can be used to
create a personalized Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system
using simple drag and drop (or copy and paste) of phrases into lists organized
by topic. Proloquo can also be combined with LayoutKitchen™ (purchase
separately). With LayoutKitchen users can design their own speech panels for
Proloquo with colorable and resizable buttons containing text and/or images in a
variety of formats.
Features -
1. Macintosh based communication system (AAC) for people who
cannot speak
· Type text into Proloquo and
let it speak (parts of) that text.
· Use drag and drop (or copy
and paste) to create sets of custom words and phrases that are spoken with a simple mouse click or keystroke.
· Create textual speech
panels for commonly used words and phrases.
· Optional: Use custom speech
panels created with LayoutKitchen (purchase separatly) which have colorable and resizable buttons containing
text and/or images in a variety of formats.
· Optional: Use with custom
image-based speech panels created with LayoutKitchen (purchase separatly) using over 8000 resizable,
industry-standard Picture Communication Symbols™ from Mayer-Johnson (purchase separatly).
2. Improved accessibility of Mac OS X for people with visual
impairments
· Speaks text and other
keystrokes typed in any application. Speaks screen objects such as buttons, menus, text below the
cursor in most applications.
· Provides very large icons
and resizable toolbars.
· Allows the selection of
different voices for communication and for the talking interface.
3. Speech feedback in any application while typing for children
and people with learning disabilities
· Speaks text and other
keystrokes typed in any application.
· Allows for customization of
the pronounciation of individual letters, symbols and keys to give full control to speech language pathologists.
4. Serves as a talking word processor
· Includes a basic text
editor that can speak as the user types, but can also speak individual words, sentences and paragraphs.
· On Mac OS X Tiger,
automatically synchronizes typed text and speech functions in applications such as TextEdit and Nisus Writer Express (that
support Apple's Acessibility API) as the user moves from window to window
effectively turning these two applications into talking word processors.
· Allows the user to enter
pronunciation exceptions.
5. Provides text to speech for people who prefer listening to
reading
· Speaks selected text in any
application using a button or keyboard shortcut.
· Speaks text pointed at by
the cursor (optionally requiring a modifier key to be held down) in many applications.
· Can briefly pause between
sentences for easier understanding of spoken text.
· Converts text to audio
files and to iPod-ready iTunes tracks.
6. Can be used as a tool to learn the pronunciation of foreign
languages
· Comes with high quality
Acapela voices in a language of choice.
· Additional high quality
Acapela language packs are available for separate purchase. Or you can get Cepstral voices for which registered users of
Proloquo can get a discount Coupon.
· Use it to speak foreign
language web sites or the text of your language classes.
7. Provides an advanced, multilingual speech engine for
KeyStrokes and SwitchXS
· Adds the capability to
speak with high quality voices in various languages to the builtin speech features of KeyStrokes and SwitchXS.
· Provides control over
speech rate, pitch and exceptions.
· Allows the selection of
different voices for communication, for the talking interface and for speech cues.
NOTE:
Proloquo works with any hard keyboard, on-screen keyboard,
mouse or mouse emulator, such as the HeadMouse® Extreme.
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