Kurzweil 3000™ for Windows

Kurzweil 3000™ is the premier reading, writing and learning software for struggling students. Because it is also content-independent, teachers in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges alike use it to help students succeed in the classroom regardless of their curriculum or lesson plan. 

Kurzweil 3000 Features and Benefits

Patented Dual Highlighting - Kurzweil 3000's patented dual highlighting employs a multi-sensory approach to improving students' reading performance by highlighting a sentence, paragraph, line or phrase in one color and highlighting each word in another color as it is read aloud.

Quick Access to Word Meanings - One-click access to recursive dictionary definitions, synonyms, syllabification and spell mode assists students with decoding and keeps them reading with fewer interruptions.

Comprehensive Study Skills Tools - Students can improve their reading comprehension and retention with study skills tools that facilitate active reading including highlighting, annotations, Bookmarks, Voice Notes and Extract to create outlines, study guides, or word lists.

Powerful Instructional Support Tools - Teachers can personalize instruction to suit student needs and learning styles using Sticky Notes, Text Notes, Voice Notes or Footnotes. With Bubble Notes, which appear automatically when reading a document, teachers can teach students specific skills, guide students through tasks, or gauge reading comprehension by inserting multiple choice, true/false, matching, and open-ended text response questions.

Flexible Writing Tools - As a student types, the software speaks each letter or word, so they can quickly recognize and correct spelling mistakes. The audible spell checker and customizable word prediction further assist students with creating and modifying reports, essays and papers without teacher intervention.

Unique Test Taking Capabilities - Students can independently complete worksheets, classroom tests and standardized tests with greater confidence and fewer mistakes. Students with accommodations can easily answer fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, true/false, short answer, essay and other test forms while using a customized selection of writing tools, comprehension aids and visual modifications.

Online Books and Encyclopedias - Students can search through and select from thousands of electronic books and online encyclopedias such as Columbia Encyclopedia, Wikipedia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, helping ensure access to content comparable to that of their peers.

Vocabulary List Support -Teachers and students can use Vocabulary Lists for new or curriculum-based vocabulary learning. They can choose from included vocabulary lists such as homophones or confusables or quickly and easily create new lists.

Flexible Network Options - Students can log on from any networked computer running Kurzweil 3000 and access their personal settings and files. Educators and network administrators can centrally track student usage and progress and control the number of licenses in use. Also, the License-to-GoTM feature allows network users to access Kurzweil 3000 without being connected to the network, enabling usage of Kurzweil 3000 in or out of the classroom.

Natural-Sounding Synthetic Speech Options - Two clear, human-sounding VoiceText voices from NeoSpeech __ one male, one female __ and precise IBM ViaVoice voices deliver superior text-to-speech (TTS), making reading easier to comprehend and adjust to users' reading preferences.

Easy Web Access - Kurzweil 3000 enhances audible and visual access to web pages, with support of both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, opening up the resources of the Internet to all students.

Audio File Creation - Students can create MP3 and WAV files of entire documents, or select pages or text, and listen to the files on portable players while on the go.

Broad Access to Electronic Files - Kurzweil 3000 supports popular file formats, including .doc,.pdf and DAISY.

Advanced Scanning Support - Kurzweil 3000 provides advanced scanning and image management features for the best possible scanning results. With the latest optical character recognition (OCR) technology and scanner optimization tools, accurate documents are more readily obtainable. Kurzweil 3000 also includes support for duplex and high speed scanners, enabling both efficiency and speed in scanning production.

Picture Dictionary - Kurzweil 3000 supports popular electronic picture dictionaries such as those from Mayer-Johnson and Crick Software to provide an alternative way to communicate and teach the meanings of words.

Multilingual Assistance - With audible dictionary definitions available in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, and the ability to read text aloud in any of these languages, users can master material in the language of their choice.

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