Complete Screen Reading 

ZoomText automatically speaks all program controls, including menus, dialogs, list views and messages. Three verbosity levels give you complete control over the amount of information spoken.

‘NeoSpeech’ Synthesizer Voices

NeoSpeech provides human-sounding male and female voices that are closer to the real thing than ever before (English only). ZoomText also includes classic TruVoice, ViaVoice and Microsoft speech synthesizers.

Automatic Document Reading

ZoomText’s AppReader automatically reads documents, web pages and email within the parent application. ZoomText’s DocReader reads documents in a special environment where text is reformatted for easier viewing.

ZoomText Recorder The ZoomText Recorder allows you to turn text from documents, webpages, email, etc. into audio recordings that you can transfer to on your mobile device and listen to at your convenience. Recordings can be saved directly to a ZoomText Recorder playlist in iTunes or Windows Media Player and automatically synced to your mobile device.

ZoomText Background Reader

ZoomText’s Background Reader allows you to listen to documents, webpages, email, etc. while you simultaneously perform other tasks. You simply select the text you want to listen to and press the Background Reader hotkey, Background Reader begins reading the text while you go about other work. At any time you can pause and resume reading and skim forward and backward by word or sentence.

Reading Zones

Reading Zones allow you to instantly see and hear selected locations in your applications. Define up to 10 zones per application that you can trigger via pop-up menu or keyboard commands.

Full Internet Accessibility

ZoomText reads any web page, in the proper reading order. You can read automatically or manually navigate by word, line, sentence and paragraph.

Text Navigation

Navigation keys make it easy to read while creating and editing documents. With simple commands you can read by character, word, line, sentence and paragraph, even while selecting text.

Typing Echo

Each key or word that you type is automatically spoken. You can choose to have all keys spoken or only selected groups of keys.

Mouse Echo

Mouse echo automatically reads text that you point to. Single words or complete lines of text are spoken instantly or after hovering briefly.

SpeakIt Tool

The SpeakIt tool allows you to read selected areas of the screen by clicking or dragging the mouse.

Special Application Support

Built-in support for popular applications – including Internet Explorer (IE 10 supported in ZoomText 10.1 for Windows 8), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook; Office 2013 is supported in ZoomText 10.1), Adobe, Firefox, OpenOffice, iTunes and Java – allow you to read and navigate your documents with 100% accuracy.

ZoomText Magnifier/Reader enlarges and enhances everything on your computer screen, making all of your applications easy to see and use. Our revolutionary new ‘xFont’ technology displays crystal clear text at all magnification levels. Once you’ve seen it, no other screen magnifier will do.

Enhanced Web Finder

ZoomText’s Enhanced Web Finder allows you to search webpages for specific words or phrases, or skim through pages to find items of interest. When an item of interest is found you can have Web Finder start reading aloud from that location (Magnifier/Reader only). If the item is a link to another page you can have Web Finder execute the link and continue your search on the new page.

Full Windows Logon Support (with ZoomText Logon UI)

ZoomText’s logon support provides essential magnification and screen reading features when logging into Windows.

Flexible Magnification

Full range of magnification levels up to 36x. Levels include: 1x to 8x in steps of 1, 10x to 16x in steps of 2, 20x to 36x in steps of 4, and fractional powers of 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x and 2.5x.

Powerful Zoom Windows

8 different zoom windows allow you to choose which part of the screen is magnified.  

Font Enhancements

xFont technology displays high-definition text that’s easy to read at all magnification levels. Smooth, bold and condense settings allow you to fine-tune the thickness and spacing of text for added legibility.

Dual Monitor Support

Use two monitors to expand your magnified viewing area, or use the second monitor to share a magnified or unmagnified view of your desktop with another person or group.

Enhanced Screen Colours

Innovative colour controls improve screen clarity and reduce eyestrain. Special effects include colour dyes, two-color modes and replacement of problem colours.

Visible Pointers and Cursors

Size and colour enhancements make it easy to see the mouse pointer. Special locators make it easier to follow the mouse pointer and text cursor as they move across the screen.

Focus Enhancements

Makes it easy to locate and follow the control focus when you navigate through application menus, dialogs and other application controls.

Smooth Navigation

Navigating your applications and scrolling the view is always smooth and comfortable. Constrained mouse movement allows you to examine rows and columns, and keeps you within the active window.

Desktop Finder

Desktop Finder helps you find and launch programs and documents on your desktop, system tray and quick launch bar.

Text Finder

Text Finder helps you locate words, phrases and topics of interest in documents, web pages, and application windows.

Application Settings

Save unique settings for each application that you use. As you switch applications, ZoomText automatically loads the desired settings.

ZoomText Magnifier/Reader Requires:

• Windows 10, 8.1 or 7 with Service Pack 1 (or later).
• Processor: 2 GHz i3 dual core processor or similar.i5 or i7 recommended.
• 4 GB Ram. 8 GB recommended.
• Video/Graphics card or integrated graphics with support for DirectX 10 or higher.
• Hard drive space for ZoomText: 1.3 GB SSD drive recommended. Note: After installing ZoomText, use of hard drive space can be reduced by uninstalling unneeded voices.
• 5-point multi-touch display for touch screen support.
• USB 2.0 for ZoomText Camera support.