IDEAL Group Reader

About IDEAL Group Reader Android App

Installation Statistics
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As of February 25, 2020, IDEAL Group Reader has been installed 47,250 times, on 8,320 different Android devices.

Credits
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IDEAL Group Reader® Beta II can voice MathML content thanks to Google's wonderful support and guidance! We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to T.V. Raman, Charles Chen, and Volker Sorge for reaching their "Google" hands out to meet ours to help us make reading MathML content a reality.

Special thanks to The Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) for supporting this project with funding from The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) a department of the U.S. Department of Education.

We would also like to extend our debt of gratitude to the White House for honoring IDEAL Group Reader with a "Champions of Change" award for advancing the state of science, technology, engineering and math educational technology in support of people with disabilities. Please see: http://tinyurl.com/d2haad5

Features of IDEAL Group Reader® Beta II
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* can read text aloud (just like an audio book).

* can highlight sections of text as they are being read.

* enable students to take notes using speech recognition, highlight sections of text to be remembered, and then gather all the important notes together in one place…all automatically.

* can display and read aloud (assuming that the appropriate voices are installed) books in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh.

* Displays and reads MathML content.

* Significantly improved accessibility: This includes enhanced navigation including jumping to specific chapters, pages, and passages.

* Video: Videos can be embedded in ePub3 texts.

* Audio: Audio passages can be embedded in ePub3 texts.

* Interactivity: includes features like pop-ups and asides activated by clicking on words in the text.

* and much, much, more.