Co-Writer uses artificial intelligence to produce the list, thus allowing a student to save considerable processing and key stroking time. Additionally, teachers can add to the word bank technical or vocabulary words for reinforcement or to save additional processing time for new and unfamiliar vocabulary. Co-writer s extensive dictionary and thesaurus have speech capabilities so a student has auditory as well as visual discrimination aid for words he might confuse. Write Outloud is a speaking word processor. As a student writes, Write Outloud will speak the letter, word, sentence or paragraph depending on the options chosen.
Users can choose from a variety of speeds, volume, and voices.
An extensive, phonetic spell checker and homonym checker supports the most inventive speller. Visual cuing options are also extensive. Thus writing does become multi-sensory for the learning disabled student who needs visual and auditory reinforcement. Kurzweil 3000 offers text to speech options as well as numerous study skills functions for text-based information. As e-text becomes more and more prevalent, this type of program becomes exceptionally helpful for independent learning.