Sensory Readable for Mac takes text-to-speech and visual readability to the next level. This innovative, cost effective, software provides real-time spoken feedback of the words under the mouse cursor, making reading more accessible. It can assist with reading difficulties, slow reading speeds, or those who prefer to listen while interacting with their computer.
The software’s fresh design enhances the audio and visual experience, making it effortless to listen to research documents, reports, e-mails, news feeds, and more.
Key Benefits
- Real-time spoken feedback of text with novel underline-highlight in Microsoft Office
- Acts as a proof-reader for your writing and speech dictation
- Can be a reading assistant for research, revision and during examinations
- Includes the accessible Sensory PDF Reader for general PDF documents and exams
- Provides for more accessibility and readability in Microsoft Office 365 (online and installed)and other Mac apps.
- Screen Tint and Ruler improving visual readability
- Sensory Readable Suite for Mac requires an Apple Mac computer with the Apple M1-M4 chip, ideally with 8GB+ RAM. If you want to download the free Sensory Writeable for Mac also, we will strongly recommend an Apple Mac with Apple M2-M4 chip and with 16GB RAM
What’s new in v3?:
- Readable Banner – A scrolling reading display that shows the text being spoken with the current word highlighted, set within a small window of the words just read and the words coming up.
- Word Information Popup – Holding Ctrl+Shift and hovering over a word shows an instant popup with its definition, pronunciation and related entries, drawn from a built-in offline dictionary of more than 147,000 words. In v3 this works in any Windows application — Word, browsers, PDFs, email — and even over text inside images or locked PDFs, which it recognises first using on-screen text recognition.
- Sensory Prediction – v3 adds Sensory’s own word-prediction option as an alternative to the default Microsoft (Windows) prediction. Writers can choose which prediction to use, rather than relying solely on the built-in Windows option.
- Sensory Fonts – A set of six reading fonts is now included and can be applied to supported reading and writing views, selectable as part of the font and spacing options.
- Read to End shortcut (Ctrl+Space) – A new keyboard shortcut that starts reading from the cursor and continues to the end of the document, giving a quick keyboard alternative to clicking Play.
- Small Toolbar – A compact version of the Readable toolbar, taking up less screen space while keeping every button accessible.
- PDF Convert 2 (in the v3 Suite) – The Sensory Readable v3 Suite includes the upgraded Sensory PDF Convert 2. It brings pages in three ways — scanning, opening an image (JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF), or opening an existing PDF — runs automatic OCR on each page, and saves to four formats: Accessible PDF, Plain Text, Rich Text (RTF) or Word document (DOCX)
There are a number of fonts available with Sensory products, see link below to find out more information:
https://help.sensoryreadable.com/readable/SensoryFonts
