Bridges News — Writing

Free live streamed conference, ATLiveEdu on May 12th 0

On May 12th, Kurzweil is live streaming an AT conference that anyone can join for free ATLiveEdu

Snap&Read Universal Comes to the iPad, and More New Features Too! 0

Text to speech tools offer instant support for pdf’s, websites or any other text that’s electronic, on the computer. But what if your student gets printed worksheet, article or even – yes we definitely still use these things in classrooms -- a book!

An iPad with the just released Snap&Read app turns printed text into accessible text, easily, intuitively, in seconds. In Snap&Read that doesn’t just mean text-to-speech. Text levelling, new templates to highlight and extract to, second language support – all the tools are there, just like on your PC.

Earobics, Classroom Suite -- "Where has my software gone!" 0

Popular literacy software Earobics and Classroom Suite were recently discontinued. Why publishers are killing software with active user bases.

NEW: Kurzweil 3000 Chrome App and Extension 0

Kurzweil has totally redesigned its web reading tools and released a Chrome app, too: Read the Web 3.0 extension for Chrome web browser and Kurzweil 3000 Chrome App.  Both are available as a free download for Kurzweil 3000+firefly web license subscribers. They deliver not only better functionality for any user of the Chrome browser but even more powerful Kurzweil 3000 tools for Chromebooks too.