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What is WYNN?
WYNN is software that helps you read, study, and comprehend text more easily and
effectively. WYNN is an exciting new product from Arkenstone, leading maker of software
reading tools for people with visual disabilities. Used with a standard PC, WYNN
lets you open a file and hear it read aloud. Or, you can scan a page using a flatbed
scanner, and read that aloud. Once you open a file, you can alter the way the page is
presented on the screen as well as the way it is read aloud to you. You can also
insert notes and bookmarks, highlight sections, or look up words in the dictionary.
You can use WYNN in the classroom or workplace. Although the software was designed with
the guidance of students and adults with Specific Learning Disability and special
educators, WYNN is also helpful for people who do not have a diagnosed reading disability,
but find reading difficult, unpleasant, or laborious. And WYNN is a valuable tool
for teachers and therapists who work with individuals with reading difficulties. If
you want to read more easily and more effectively, WYNN is for you!
WYNN tool bars are intuitive and easy to learn. All have large buttons that are
labeled with both pictures and words. This gives WYNN a very short learning curve.
Here's the File Management tool bar. On this tool bar are buttons to help you scan a
page, open, close, save, and print files, and copy text to the clipboard. Like the
other three tool bars, this one includes the Next, Read, and Help buttons.
This is the Visual Presentation tool bar. On this tool bar are buttons that let you
control how WYNN presents the document page: the size of the text, spacing, and margins,
and the type of font used. There's also a button that lets you choose specific
combinations of text and background colors, to make the page more readable for you.
Below is the Study Tools tool bar. These buttons give you access to a dictionary and a
thesaurus, allow you to add a bookmark, text or voice note to the document; or highlight a
section of text. You can also ask WYNN to find a specific word in the document, spell a
word aloud, or break it into syllables.
Finally, this is the Reading Options tool bar, with buttons that help you adjust
the size and style of the Spotlight, select how fast WYNN reads and at what volume, and
determine what screen elements WYNN speaks aloud. There's also a button that lets you
"mask out" everything on the document page except the section you wish to read.
You told us What You Need Now!
Based on extensive field research, WYNN was defined and developed with the cooperation of
both LD students and by special educators. Many of the features were suggested by special
education teachers. They gave WYNN the benefit of their experience with students who have
dyslexia or other reading difficulties.
WYNN uses a bimodal approach, presenting material simultaneously in auditory and visual
modes. Research has shown that this approach significantly increases reading concentration
and retention
Based on extensive field research, WYNN was defined and developed with the cooperation of
both LD students and by special educators. Many of the features were suggested by special
education teachers. They gave WYNN the benefit of their experience with students who have
dyslexia or other reading difficulties.
WYNN uses a bimodal approach, presenting material simultaneously in auditory and visual
modes. Research has shown that this approach significantly increases reading concentration
and retention
WYNN incorporates the traditional study aids that LD teachers and students use --
highlighting, bookmarks, masking, ruler guides, and text and voice annotations. -- into a
software product.
WYNN spotlight focuses the reader's attention on the specified chunk of text. WYNN
also allows the user to increase the line and word spacing and adjust margins, enabling
the reader to more easily decode and comprehend the reading material.
WYNN gives users control of their reading and study process and helps people use their
strengths to strengthen their weaknesses.
The WYNN Datasheet
At last, software for people with reading challenges! If you find reading a chore,
you'll appreciate how WYNN easy-to-use tool bars let you modify the page to suit your
individual needs. Standard settings give you a foundation from which to work with
your strengths while helping you compensate for reading difficulties. And you can
easily modify the settings to suit your particular reading needs.
Text too small and crowded? WYNN can enlarge it, or change the spacing between lines
or even characters. Having trouble following from word to word? Expand or contract the
Spotlight, to emphasize larger or smaller amounts of text, or change the color of the
cursor. You can also mask out distracting sections of the page.
Would you comprehend more if you could see the words and hear them at the same time? WYNN
can read your text out loud with a speech synthesizer. Look up words in the dictionary,
hear them spelled aloud, break them into syllables -- WYNN easy-to-use graphic tool bar
helps you crack the code! And WYNN even lets you highlight important passages, insert
bookmarks, and add written or spoken notes, so you can summarize important sections in
your own words.
WYNN is great for school or the workplace, if you have a reading disability, or just want
to read efficiently, effectively and easily. If you want to be a reading winner, we have
What You Need Now!
BENEFITS
Easy-to-use rotating tool bar provides all reading functions -- no need to use menus!
Intuitive buttons and icons give you a short learning curve.
Both auditory and visual presentation lets you emphasize your strengths.
Modify the speech and visual presentation to suit your needs.
Scanned in pages retain original page layout – see it on-screen exactly as it
is on the page, in black and white or in color!
STUDY AIDS
Use traditional study aids — highlighting, ruler guides, masking, note-taking,
dictionary — to increase effective reading and learning.
Includes 80,000 word dictionary and thesaurus.
Insert bookmarks and text or voice annotations into the document.
Locate words, electronic bookmarks and annotations within the document.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Clear, natural-sounding synthetic speech.
Save modified files so your can review them again and again.
Read aloud standard word processing, HTML, and ASCII files as well as files scanned
from books, work sheets, and homework assignments.
System Requirements
IBM Pentium(tm) PC, Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT version 4.0 or later,
2000, or XP.
VGA video card and monitor, capable of 640 x 480 resolution, 256 color mode or
greater, Memory: 16 megabytes of RAM (32 MB RAM strongly recommended) Hard Disk: 45 MB
free
Optional components
For Speech Synthesis: WYNN ships with software to make your PC speak. To use this software
for speech synthesis, you need a Sound Blaster or compatible sound card. WYNN also
supports most all SSIL speech synthesizers, including DECtalk PC, DECtalk Access32 and
many others.
For Voice Annotations: WYNN ships with its own microphone. To create voice annotations,
you need a Sound Blaster or compatible sound card.
Highly Recommended
Scanners:
Canon CanoScan LiDE 50 (22 seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
Canon CanoScan LiDE 80 (20 seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
Epson 2400 (20 seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
Epson 3200 (15 seconds, USB and Firewire, 11" only, no ADF)
HP OfficeJet 5510
All-in-One (24 seconds, USB, includes ADF)
HP ScanJet 5550: (20 seconds, USB, optional ADF)
Microtek ScanMaker 3740 (30
seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
Visioneer 9650 (18 seconds, USB, ADF included)
Visioneer 8920 (18 seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
Highly Recommended But Older
Scanners:
Canon 630EY
Epson 1660
Epson 1650
Epson 1640
Epson 1250
Epson 1240
HP ScanJet 7490C
Visioneer 8800
Visioneer 8600
Microtek X12USL
Umax: any USB model is good
Other Recommended Scanners (slightly slower or quirky):
Canon LiDE 30 (23 seconds, USB only, 11"
only, no ADF)
Epson 2450 (20 seconds, USB and Firewire, 11" only, no ADF)
Visioneer 9000 (25 seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
Scanners We Do Not Recommend:
Canon D1250U2F (SLOW! 53 seconds, USB, 11, no
ADF)
Epson 1670 (SLOW!!! 60 seconds, USB, 11" only, no ADF)
HP: the 3200 and 4300 series
Visioneer 8650 (20 seconds, USB and parallel, 11" only, has ADF but doesn't
work with our software)
Visioneer 8900 (several quirky behaviors)
High-speed Scanners:
Canon DR-5020
Canon DR-5080C
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