Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Two New Products from gh, LLC

ReadHear Mac - ReadHear™ Mac is the first ever fully-featured Digital Talking Book player for the Mac! The great accessibility features available in the gh PLAYER™ are no longer limited to the PC. ReadHear Mac provides excellent benefits to those who enjoy and appreciate learning and listening to all types of books, articles, and documents. It supports MathML, Nimas 1.1, Daisy/Niso 2005. Bookshare, RFB&D AudioPlus, Educational Publishers, e-Pub & DRM supported soon!

I downloaded ReadHear Mac on one of the new MacBook Pros that we purchased for the ATRC and it is wonderful! If you have a Mac, download the 30 day trial and check it out. www.gh-accessibility.com/products/readhear_mac

ClickHear and ClickHear Mobile

ClickHear™ is a new talking tool for the Internet. With ClickHear, you can browse the web easily regardless of reading or visual difficulties!
ClickHear is a toolbar that operates in a web browser. You start by downloading and then installing ClickHear on your computer. After installation, the ClickHear toolbar will appear at the top of the browser. Simply start reading at the top of the page or choose a section to begin reading. Navigate through the page with a click of the mouse. ClickHear reads not only general text on a web page, but also text fields, buttons, and even alt text for images.
Customization options allow you to change the appearance of the text and contrast, directly zoom-in or out on the page with panning availability, and also choose the cursor and toolbar size. Three high quality Nuance voices are included.

http://www.gh-accessibility.com/products/clickhear

Proloquo2Go on the iPad

For everyone that has asked me whether the Proloquo2Go software will run on the iPad when released, here is your answer from Assistiveware.

On Wednesday, January 27th, Apple announced the iPad, a device with a 9.7-inch
(diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display. Proloquo2Go, along with most of the 140,000 iPhone apps will run on the iPad. Current Proloquo2Go users will be able to download Proloquo2Go to the device and run the software at its normal size or pixel doubled mode, where it will fill the screen. We do have plans to optimize the software for the device's higher resolution but do not have a timeline or pricing for this update.

If you would like to stay informed of Proloquo2Go updates, you can do so by signing up for the AssistiveWare News here:

http://www.proloquo2go.com/Support/