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Reading, sorting, manipulating and disseminating information in Windows
couldn't be any easier for a blind or visually impaired user than with outSPOKEN's
powerful and intuitive user interface. outSPOKEN Ensemble gracefully speaks
and shows on a braille display the content of cells when navigating and
selecting in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Message boxes, warning dialogs
and tooltip text are automatically spoken system wide. Web pages that include
frames can be navigated with outSPOKEN's intuitive command set. outSPOKEN
Ensemble also reads the content of dialogs and document windows with natural
pauses and voice inflections, making information intelligible and pleasurable
to the user. The outSPOKEN user interface is available in English, French,
Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish,
Czech and Polish.
Customize
outSPOKEN Ensemble 3.0 speech and/or braille output for your favorite applications.
Active Areas give you the power to customize and enhance accessibility through
speech and braille for even the most complex programs. First specify all
or part of the screen to monitor for event triggers such as focus or mouse
pointer movement, text or graphic changes, or even the press of a hotkey.
Then, define any number of actions to perform such as: read the area in
speech, show it in braille, speak or show a message, play a wave file and
more.
Read more
about outSPOKEN 3.0's powerful Active Areas
outSPOKEN Ensemble 3.0 gives you the most comprehensive and responsive
braille output available. outSPOKEN Ensemble users can even work effectively
in braille without needing speech output.
outSPOKEN Ensemble runs in Windows 98 and 95, and is compatible with most
braille displays and speech synthesizers. outSPOKEN's Preferences dialog
lets you choose how the braille should appear: Grade two braille, six- or
eight-dot braille, word-wrap, layout, speech and braille coupling, text
attribute indicators, status cell usage, braille language tables, and much,
much more.
Included on the outSPOKEN Ensemble 3.0 software CD-ROM is the MS-SAPI
compatible Lernout & Hauspie speech synthesizer. This synthesizer can
speak UK and USA English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch and Spanish.
The Microsoft Speech Engine is also included. Many other third-party synthesizers
are also supported.
outSPOKEN Ensemble 3.0 recognizes frames and improves performance
during hyperlink navigation when using tab and shift-tab. outSPOKEN supports
Netscape 4.5 and Internet Explorer 5.5.
Use outSPOKEN Ensemble with all of today’s popular applications.
It works seamlessly with Microsoft Office 2000 and 97, Outlook 98, Netscape
4.5, Internet Explorer 4.01 and 5.5, Eudora Pro and Lite, GroupWise 5.5,
Quicken, telephony consoles, and many more Windows 98/95 applications. New
users will appreciate outSPOKEN's small and intuitive reading and navigation
command set, while experienced users will embrace its robustness and power.
The English speaking installer guides you through the installation
process.
Choose how you prefer that outSPOKEN responds to keyboard input,
system events, voice settingss and more from within outSPOKEN's Preferences
dialog.
Enhance outSPOKEN speech and braille output for any application using outSPOKEN’s
Active Areas.