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The Kurzweil Project

Image: Staff and students at the Orientation Day

SET-BC has launched the Kurzweil 3000 project. During the 1999-2000 school year, six SET-BC secondary students and their teams will participate in on-line lessons, e-mail discussions, and data collection activities as they explore and exploit the feature set found in the Kurzweil 3000 software.

The teams met at SET-BC, Vancouver for a Kurzweil 3000 orientation and training day. Each of the six teams will make use of a scanner, the SET-BC computer, and the Kurzweil 3000 software to access resources in order for the student to meet the diverse demands of the secondary curriculum. Image: Staff and students at the Orientation Day
Image: Answering Questions about Kurzweil 3000 The Kurzweil 3000 is a PC based reading system developed specifically for ease of use by students and teachers. The systems rich feature set includes the following capabilities:
  • Scans and reads from any book, document, or World Wide Wed page
  • Speaks and highlights text
  • Offers clear natural sounding synthetic speech
  • Offers an on-line 175,000 word dictionary with synonyms
  • Highlights selected text and extracts the highlights into a new document (even on the WWW)
  • Provides text editing options
  • Reads back student generated writing to assist in proofreading