The Reader 1.3 - Читалка

  The Reader's - Удобный формат для чтения книг
  338 KB | Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later | Shareware

The Reader's main purpose is to make it easy for you to read text formatted books (files with a “txt” file extension). Many books of this type can be found on the internet.

The Reader will also speak the text of the books to you if you wish. You can even put The Reader into automatic mode and let it read entire books to you. The Reader is meant to help you easily read text books but can also be used as a tool to help a person learn to read better.

The reader has many functions which can aid a person in becoming a better reader. If you do not understand a word on the screen you can highlight the word and see the definition of it or find other words that are similar to it.

If you are unsure of how to say a word you can have The Reader say the word to you so you can learn to pronounce the word better. You can also read along with the book while it is spoken to you.

Start out at by having The Reader speak slower so you can read along with it at a comfortable pace. As you become better at reading you will find that you can speed-up the speed of the spoken text.

Speech capabilities are built into The Reader. This makes it easy to have the book spoken to you. The Reader leverages the Macintosh's built-in speech capabilities, so you can use the "Speech" preference pane to choose the speaking voice and set the pace at which the speaking occurs.

When The Reader is used as a learning aid a student can read along while the computer is speaking the text. In these cases you should set the speech at a slower pace.


What's New in This Release:

· dramatic speed improvements when opening a book—takes about 1/6th the time it used to take
· new option to customize the view by using the button or the font menu
· new option to reset your view changes back to default values under the font menu
· view changes are remembered and restored at next launch
· view changes happen immediately without having to select the text first
· lots of other code improvements.