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Dolphin Tutor

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For many people learning is easy, for some of us it can be a challenge. Dyslexia is now recognized as a physical condition, one shared by Albert Einstein, Muhammad Ali, Henry Ford and even George Washington.

Dolphin Tutor is part of a range of Dolphin applications being developed to aid learning for students who suffer from Dyslexia and other reading difficulties and print impairments.


System Requirements
  • Pentium II 750 MHz is minimum recommend Pentium II 1 GHz
  • 256 Mb RAM is minimum, recommend 512 Mb
  • 125 Mb of hard-disk space for installation
  • CD-ROM drive
  • 16 bit or higher graphic resolution
  • 1024 x 768 monitor resolution
  • Multimedia sound card and speakers. It is recommended to use a separate sound card i.e. not on-board
  • 200 Mb hard disk space maximum required
  • Scanner supporting TWAIN or WIA drivers required for scanning from print.
Product Code - TUTOR
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Key Features

Dolphin Tutor – Reading and Writing made easy
Dolphin Tutor has been designed to allow users to choose a way to read and write that suits them best. Computer users can write, read, view and check text, making it the perfect solution for people who have difficulty reading, writing and spelling.

By adding a simple, easy to read toolbar to your common Microsoft™ applications, such as Word®, Excel® and Internet Explorer®, Dolphin Tutor will allow read back from your PC screen. Dolphin Tutor also makes all text more visible, as well as including many text checking tools to help you create accurate work.

Helpful speech output
  • Dolphin Tutor produces high quality speech output and much more
  • Read text from any part of a Microsoft™ Word ® document.
  • Select any on-screen text using the mouse and hear it read back to you.
  • Letter, words and sentences can be read back as you type.
  • Point the mouse at menus to hear what action they perform.
  • Save the on-screen text as an audio file (.wav) to play on your PC or portable audio players.
  • Compatible with Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech input software.
Innovative Scan, Read and Save features
Dolphin Tutor incorporates the latest Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. If a scanner is connected to your PC, Dolphin Tutor will convert scanned documents into Microsoft™ Word® text and read it back.
  • Scan and convert a printed document or PDF image into text from within Microsoft™ Word®.
  • Read back the scanned document using all of the speech output and customisation features.
  • Users are also able to edit, cut and paste the text to create new documents.
Customize the appearance of your documents
The appearance of text in Microsoft™ Word® documents can be tailored to suit any individual requirements.
  • Increase or decrease text size.
  • Alter text style.
  • Alter text colour.
  • Change character spacing.
  • Change line spacing.
  • Change paragraph spacing.
Practical and innovative
Dolphin Tutor combined with Microsoft™ Word® has a number of innovations that bring enhanced learning capabilities to all users.
  • Word Prediction – Dolphin Tutor contains a prediction dictionary.
  • Talking Windows™ calculator.
  • Homophone recognition – Words with different spellings or meanings that are pronounced the same can be marked in a document along with alternative words and their meanings.
  • Combined homophone dictionary, thesaurus and spell checker makes checking documents easy.
Outstanding Support
Dolphin Tutor is backed up with Dolphin's guarantee of lifetime technical support, either by telephone, fax or email.

Every copy of Dolphin Tutor is supplied with a free video tutorial which will help you to familiarise yourself with the product (English only). The video tutorial is supplied on CD ROM and can be played using your computer. It lasts for approximately 25 minutes, after which time you should be familiar with all of the features and functions of Dolphin Tutor. An excellent reference video provided for you whenever you need it.

Every copy of Dolphin Tutor comes with its own comprehensive User Guide.

A full online Help facility is available within the product. If you want to know more information about anything in Dolphin Tutor, just press F1.