Wizcom ReadingPen TS Portable Reading Tutor (WRPTS)

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Product Feature

• Displays up to 5 lines of text on a high resolution touch-screen
• Reads words, lines or paragraphs aloud and Spells-out the scanned word, letter by letter
• Provides audio word pronunciation (American pronunciation) with Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology using built-in speaker or earphones
• Contains AHD dictionaries and thesauri
• Right/Left handed compatible

Product Description

The Reading pen TS Portable Reading Tutor is the newest portable assistive technology for reading comprehension with a touch screen menu and Spanish translation. The Reading Pens are the preferred assistive technology for learning English by educators and administrators in K-12 and college, English language learners, English as Second Language, students with Dyslexia and special education communities. According to Higgins and Raskind 2005, "on average, children scored 7 points higher, more than a grade point higher, when using the pen". The Reading Pen scans and reads aloud lines of text, defines, and provides syllabication. Provides easy one touch Spanish translation. Contains word games to improve vocabulary. Build word lists and send to PC. Send homework, tests, documents and instructions to Reading Pen TS from PC via USB connection for read back and definitions. Fits in a pocket, handbag or backpack and has an intuitive, friendly interface with both the Children’s Dictionary/Thesaurus and the College Dictionary/Thesaurus. Windows XP/Vista/7

Wizcom ReadingPen TS Portable Reading Tutor (WRPTS) Review

The ReadingPen TS works as specified.

I purchased this device for someone who has a reading disability. Their comprehension and retention is much better when something has been first read to them. After the first reading, they often can re-read text without difficulty.

What isn't immediately obvious from the product description/technical specifications is that you can only scan one line of text at a time. Therefore, if you're needing an entire page or paragraph read, you'll have to pause after each line and listen to that line being read before moving to the next line. This makes it a very slow and tedious process. I returned it because of this limitation.

The reading voice is a standard computer type voice. Nothing earth shattering but, once you get used to the voice, you can hear the words fairly easily. For me, this is acceptable since it pretty much represents the current technology capabilities of most all retail devices that read "text".

With regular frequency, I did find that a scanned line got completely messed up and had to be re-scanned. You have to be very steady and smooth when scanning a line.

We didn't look much into the other capabilities (i.e. translation, games, dictionary, etc...) since that wasn't the primary purpose for buying the device.

It didn't have any problems with different font sizes/styles.

I definitely could see where the pen could be of great use to someone with greater needs.

IMPORTANT NOTE: No problems with returning the ReadingPen and folks at J&R (vendor) were very helpful with the return.

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