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sayit™ provides independence to those with communication and mobility difficulties.
sayit™ products use the power and convenience of a laptop or desktop computer to communicate:
- via direct speech output
- via a computer screen with someone in the same room
- via email and the Internet with anyone, anywhere in the world.
Orator
sayit™ Orator has the following features:
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Scanner
sayit™ Scanner has the following features:
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Changes made from version 2 to version 3 are presented here.
High contrast interface
sayit™ has a high contrast interface. This interface makes it very easy
for the user to quickly and accurately produce text and see the text they have already generated and
to quickly identify the sayit™ window.
Word prediction
sayit™ has word prediction. At the start of a sentence or at the beginning of a word
(before a character has been entered) sayit™ will generate a list of most likely words that follow the previous word or start
a sentence. This greatly increases the speed with which a user can create text. As you use sayit™ it monitors the words
you use. So the more you use sayit™ the faster and easier it becomes
to use.
Word completion
sayit™ has word completion.
As you create text a list is created containing words you might be attempting to create
e.g. if you have entered beg the list might contain began, begin, begs, begging, beggar, begot, beget and beggarly.
Add this to the learning capacity of sayit™ and it quickly becomes tailored to you.
View Orator word completion example »
View Scanner word completion example »
Shortcuts for common phrases
sayit™ can also store complete phrases. If you write a phrase that you will use often you
can tell sayit™ to store this phrase. Now when you create text you can reproduce the entire phrase quickly.
Additionally Orator provides an easy way to manage your stored phrases.
View Orator shortcut maintenance screen »
View Orator before a shortcut expansion »
View Orator after a shortcut expansion »
Easy configuration
sayit™ is very easy to configure by both the user and the carer..
View Orator configuration window »
View Scanner user configuration window »
View Scanner carer configuration window »
High quality voices
The voices sayit™ uses for speaking are some of the most advanced in the field of voice generation. sayit™
voices are configurable between sex, nationality and speed. You can even install your own voices and use them with sayit™.
*Please note that for sayit™ to recognise a voice it must be SAPI 5 compliant.
Phonetic pronunciation
sayit™ provides mechanisms for phonetic pronunciation.
Carer alert
sayit™ provides an alert function that can be used to notify a carer for assistance. This allows a
carer to leave the room to do other things knowing that they can be reached if required.
Keyboard shortcuts
Orator provides keyboard shortcuts for many of its actions. For instance you can use a function key
e.g. F3 to append a word from the completion/prediction list.
Point and click appending
sayit™ Orator allows you to append phrases and words using the click of a mouse button.
Choice of layout
Scanner gives the user the option to choose between two layouts. The first layout contains letters in alphabetical order,
the second layout places the letters in positions based on their frequency of use, optimising text creation.
View alternative Scanner layouts »
Point and click mode
Scanner allows the user to use a point and click mode to create text. If a user has reasonable or varying mobility it
may be quicker to use point and click mode. Switching to point and click mode is easy and Scanner still does all the usual
things but you use the mouse cursor instead of another device.
Efficient action selection
Scanner has been designed to minimise the time required to generate text whilst being easy to use. Scanners screen design
and layout makes it quick and simple to perform actions.
View Scanner in group scanning level »
View Scanner in row scanning level »
View Scanner in column scanning level »
Unique, efficient mouse control technique
sayit™ Mouse is an easy-to-use input device designed to allow a user with mobility issues to guide a mouse cursor
around the computer screen. This innovative feature allows the use of almost any of the wide range of computer programs available today
for business or personal use. The unlocking of business software by users with limited communication ability means that users can keep
working from home, in spite of illness or injury. It also means the potential to gain employment skills using appropriate software.
The unlocking of the huge suite of personal use software, including efficient access to the Internet and email, potentially means an
improvement in quality of life. The use of other computer applications (where the appropriate software is installed), eg. audio CDs, and DVDs
also becomes possible.
sayit™ Mouse uses a unique scanning technique to quickly perform the desired action. It combines two scanning techniques;
Initially sayit™ Mouse divides the screen into four regions slightly larger than a quarter of the screen. Once input is received
from the input device, Mouse focuses on the selected quadrant and uses a crosshair to identify the exact point of interest.
This unique quadrant scanning technique greatly reduces the time required for a crosshair to navigate the screen.
This combined approach provides fast, accurate mouse control.
View a composite image of Mouse scanning quadrants »
Compatible with a range of devices
sayit™ Scanner and Mouse work with a range of devices, in fact if you have a particular input device already they probably work with that!
To view a sample of the kinds of devices that Scanner and Mouse work with click here.
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