Hearing text read aloud with dual colour highlighting helps with comprehension and word recognition. SpeechStream offers:

  Text-to-Speech

It is often much easier to understand a block of text by listening to it, particularly if the student struggles to read. Text-to-Speech reads aloud text with dual colour highlighting. Individual words are highlighted in one colour as they are spoken while the sentence is highlighted in another colour - this dual colour highlighting has been proven to raise comprehension levels by 20%.

The student can select their preferred reading voice and set the playback speed to suit their individual needs. They can also have the option of reading word by word, one sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time, or continuously.

  Dictionary

An online talking dictionary is available to provide definitions for a selected word. Definitions and parts of speech are displayed to increase word understanding. All definitions and sentences can also be read aloud. Publishers can augment the dictionary database or replace it with their own glossary words and definitions.

  Picture Dictionary

When a student comes across a word they are unsure of, they can search the Picture Dictionary for a visual image to better understand the meaning of the word. Images can also be copied into Word documents.

  Translator

Students can use the Word Translator to translate single words into another language chosen by the publisher.

 Support for MathML

SpeechStream can be used to read MathML supported content. Pages with MathML use the xhtml format supported in Firefox. Internet Explorer can display the page with the MathPlayer plugin.