The Portset Reader

A new Reading Machine is Launched.
Made in England.

$2,795.00

The Document Reader from Portset is a stand-alone machine for blind and sight impaired people. The compactly sized, stand alone tabletop unit incorporates the latest American/British Voice technology.

Designed for the visually impaired, the Portset Document Reading Machine fulfills the day by day need in independence, life and education.

Advances in text recognition technology, combined with Portset’s high quality speech synthesis, now make document reading a simple task. Portset’s speech engine gives male and female voices high clarity precision and intelligence that is necessary for such an application. The user can select voice gender and can vary the speaking speeds and pitch. We have ensured that the machine is simple to operate and provides features that will suit a wide range of users. Speaking can be ‘entire page’, or line-by line using cursor control to ‘scan’ forwards or backwards through a document. The user can request repeat speaking of indistinct lines or words, or text spelling. Speaking can be paused, allowing for speaking resumption. A volume control for speech output is used for the integral loudspeaker or headphone jack socket.

FEATURES:

• The ideal Personal Reader in a compact table model for any visually impaired person.
• Its claim to portability is justified by a weight of under 12lbs and its small size of 18.5 X 10.5 X 4.5 inches.
• A page with a font as fine as 8 point can be read.
• Page orientation on the reader bed is not important.
• High quality American/British speech incorporating both a male and two female voices.
• Not only will the Portset Reader speak your letters in privacy, but can read books, magazines, bills etc.
• You can retain documents you read in internal storage or save to a diskette. This is ideal if you want to keep your bank letters together or read an entire book.
• Includes Portset’s Super Voice, Jane.
• Speaking can be of the current document, from pages held in memory, or from text copy on diskette.
• You can choose to speak the entire page, text between start and end points selected by cursor control, or in distinct lines, words, or text spelling.
• Scan forward or backward through a document.
• Designed for any non-computer user.
• Simple 12 keypad gives you all the facilities and allows you to read line by line, word by word, spell any word, plus a lot more!
• Integral loudspeaker and headphone supplied for personal reading.
• Manual volume control.
• Very easy to use with voiced information that guides you through all the functions and controls.
• Upgradeable in your home to include the latest features as they become available.

Price $2,695.00 excluding shipping.