KeyStone ScreenSpeaker gives people with reading and writing difficulties an easy and effective route to creative literacy.

Overwhelming difficulties in writing, often made worse by poor reading skills, hamper the career development of many people. However, within a few hours of starting to use KeyStone, they can be generating creative written work quickly and accurately.

KeyStone ScreenSpeaker is simple to use, yet has power and versatility. It gives invaluable assistance in the use of Microsoft Word® to create documents without relying on the computer monitor (and keyboard, if speechamongs recognition is used).

Keystone ScreenSpeaker has been designed to assist users, especially those with visual impairment, blindness and reading disabilities. A user can listen to their work being spoken back while the text is being typed or dictated (using voice recognition software). Any mistakes can be quickly found and corrected using advanced spelling and homophone checkers, while the work is being created or after it has been completed. Any amount of the text can be read back at any time.

When working with Dragon NaturallySpeaking (not for use with DNS V11) or Dragon Dictate speech recognition, KeyStone ScreenSpeaker does the following:

• Tells the user what text has been transcribed in a clear computer-generated voice so that they can compare this with their dictation to discover whether the correct words have been displayed.
• Helps by speaking the displayed alternatives when a correction is needed. If the correct text is heard among the options, it can be chosen with a voice command like “Choose 3″. Otherwise, the intended text must be entered and KeyStone’s unique in-built spelling checker helps the user to produce this accurately, safeguarding future recognition performance.

When typing in Microsoft Word, KeyStone ScreenSpeaker does the following:

• Optionally speaks out each character, word and/or sentence as soon as it is typed;
• Announces when a spelling mistake or homophone is produced and speaks out alternative spellings when the user needs to inspect them.
• Whether using voice recognition or typing text, KeyStone ScreenSpeaker always -
• Speaks out text by character, word, line, sentence, paragraph or complete document, either during the document’s creation, or upon its completion, and under control of the mouse, numeric keypad, cursor keys or voice command;
• Announces the identity of icons, menu items, buttons and dialog boxes. KeyStone even provides information on the purpose of on-screen features;
• Allows the checking of documents for homophones easily and effectively, and helps clarify which homophone (sound-alike) should be selected. KeyStone also offers a quick and effective method of spelling correction through the in-built spelling checker (Ellipsis);
• Enables the computer-generated voice and the amount of information spoken to be easily customized at any time.
• Provides detailed help, both on-screen and audibily.