Portset Reader £1499
The ideal Personal Reader in a compact table model for any visually impaired person.
Value product with high quality British English speech incorporating both a male and two female voices.
Includes Portset's Super Voice, Jane.
Designed as a domestic product for any non-computer user.
Not only will the Portset Reader speak your letters in privacy, but can read books, magazines, bills etc.
You can even retain the documents you read in the internal store of save to a diskette. This is ideal if you want to keep your bank letters together or even read an entire book.
You can adjust the voices, copy documents, read both page and column documents.
Simple 12 keypad gives you all the facilities and allows you to read line by line, word by word or spell any letter plus a lots, lots more.
Integral loudspeaker and headphone supplied for that very personal reading.
Manual volume control.
Very easy to use with voiced information that guides you through all the functions and controls.
The Portset Reader comes to you from the inventors of the acclaimed Talking Teletext, and the only accessible Digital Freeview Television receiver.
You can depend on Portset to produce quality products for the blind.
12 months guarantee including any updates.
Extended warranties available.
Advances in text recognition technology combined with Portset's high quality speech synthesis now makes document reading a simple task. Portset’s speech engine gives a voice of high
clarity, precision and the intelligence that is necessary for such an
application. Portset has ensured that the machine is simple to operate
and provides features to suit a wide range of users and uses.
Portset has designed its product to meet the following
performance criteria:-
Small size of only 47cm by 26cm by 12cm deep. (18.5 x 10.5 x 4.5 inches) and weighing under 6kgs (12 lbs)
The user can select between female or male speaking voices.
A page size up to A4 (28 x 20 cm) with a font as fine as 8point can be
read.
Page orientation on the reader bed is not important.
‘Pages’ can be stored for reference in the machine itself or by text
copy to diskette.
Speaking can be of the current document, from pages held in memory,
or from text copy on diskette.
Speaking can be ‘entire page’ or of text between start and finish points
selected by cursor control.
The user can request repeat speaking of indistinct lines or words, or
text spelling.
Speaking can be paused, allowing for speaking resumption or stopped
to allow a change in selection.
The user can ‘scan’ forwards or backwards through a document.
There is volume control for speech output which can be to the integral
loudspeaker or headphone jack socket.
European and American Languages available.

More information is available from Portset Systems or their agents
including:
Portset Systems Ltd, 14 Palmerston Business Park, Palmerston Drive, Fareham. PO14 1DJ England.
Email Us
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd. 76, Bunting Road Ind. Est., NORTHAMPTON, NN2 6EE, United Kingdom.
Email Techno-Vision
USA:
Anywhere in the United States of America contact: TVI.--Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Inc.
or Email TVI