Ace Reader Pro Product Details

• Free Upgrades on all non-major releases. Telephone support. Online help via web site, email and downloadable documentation.
• Reading/Comprehension Tests:
  Comprehension Tests for grade levels 1-12 plus higher level college/advanced/expert level reading material. You can take self-paced tests or forced speed tests. Self-paced tests tell you how fast you read and also provide comprehension test results. Forced speed tests allow you to see how well you comprehend when being forced to read at certain speeds.
• Eye Pacing Drills:
  Drills that auto adjust reading speed. Includes eye warm-up drills.
• Eye Exercise Games:
  Eye Fixation Games that will improve your reading skills while having fun. Games provide both multiple choice and typed exercises.
• Automated Course:
  Courses that will lead you through the training process.
• Expert Mode (Online Reader):
  Allows you to have full control over the display options, text and speed. You can load web pages, email, documents, ebooks...
• Custom program settings can be saved and recalled. Display options include: screen size, text display mode, font, font size, font color, background color, margin width, speed setting (words or character based), key mapping...
• Tracks progress and creates progress reports. Allows you to view progress via on screen details and graphs. Will create simple progress report document that can be saved or printed. Can also export reports to tab/semicolon delimited text file so that you can import into spreadsheet.
• Ability to Save/Load Custom Option Settings.
• Customizable Hot-Keys.
• Ability to set speed in terms of Words/Min, Char/Second and Char/Minute.
• Bookmarks
• Easy to use user interface with mouse over help and ability to hide controls.
• Read Timer
• Startup Wizard Screen that will launch you into common areas of the program and makes the program more intuitive to use.
• Ability to Import/Export sets of custom content (Comprehension Tests, Drills...). You can share custom content with other AceReader Pro users.
• Advanced Display Modes (i.e. sentence at a time, phrase at a time, ability to specify number of eye fixations per line, highlighting of word groups...).
• Ability to purchase text-to-speech add-on.
• Ability to extract text from .pdf and .doc via the Load File function. Supports passwords with pdf files.

 

System Requirements

PC:

Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, 2003, XP or Vista. 20 MB disk space.

Approximate Size: ~4.8Mb

Approximate Download Time:

• Cable/DSL - Less than 1 minute
• 28.8K Modem - Less than 23 Minutes

MAC OS 10.1:

• PPC or G3/G4/G5 (recommended) processor
• 64 MB or more RAM
• OS X 10.1 or greater
• 20 MB free disk space
• CD-ROM Drive (only needed if installing from CD)

Approximate Size: ~4Mb

Approximate Download Time:

• Cable/DSL - Less than 1 minute
• 28.8K Modem - ~20 Minutes

MAC OS 9.2.2

• PPC or G3/G4/G5 (recommended) processor
• 8 MB or more built-in RAM (memory)
• Requires Mac OS 9.2.2; built for Mac OS X
• 15 MB free disk space
• CD-ROM Drive (only needed if installing from CD)

Approximate Size: ~2.5Mb

Approximate Download Time:

• Cable/DSL - Less than 1 minute
• 28.8K Modem - Less than 10 Minutes

 

 

A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons are available on the Speed Reading Software Review HomePage.

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