SARA™

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Freedom Scientific’s SARA Scanning and Reading Appliance is an affordable and easy-to-use solution for reading a wide variety of printed material, including books, mail, newspapers, magazines, and so much more. For the low vision user, SARA can be attached to a computer monitor, providing colorful, large print access to supplement the speech. SARA uses the latest in advanced optical character recognition technology to scan text and then read it aloud in crisp, clear speech. It automatically stores and remembers the contents of hundreds of thousands of scanned pages.

SARA Scanning and Reading Appliance at a Glance

• Simple to use. No technical experience needed
• Large, colorful, easy to find and use buttons
• Intuitive Help button describes every button’s function
• Scans and reads documents of many sizes
• Attach the SARA to a computer monitor for colorful, large print access to complement speech
• Customize the type style and size, color, and spacing on the monitor to suit your vision needs
• Highlights text as you read with the highlighting color of your preference
• Human-like reading voices you can customize for your preferred voice rate and volume
• Save files to CD
• Read books you have saved on CD and also read DAISY-format books
• Includes a starter library of 40 public domain books

SARA is designed with the practical and leisure needs of the low vision user in mind. Customize the all new built-in RealSpeak™ Solo voices (in a variety of languages) for your preference of reading voice, speech rate, and volume. For the low vision user who attaches the SARA to a computer monitor to read large print from the screen, type and screen enhancements can be applied to change how colors and type appear on the screen, making screen reading customizable for the individual user. View your screen in various colors to provide the right background contrast for your reading. Adjust the type style, the color of type, its brightness and contrast, size, and even the letter spacing. Select from a range of highlighting colors to best suit your vision. All these choices can be combined to meet your specific needs.

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