Review on C Pen FBA_7350085370028 C Pen Reader by Jake Powell

The product came quickly and worked immediately after purchase. However, I sent it back as it was not suitable for my purpose. I thought an overview of what was good and not so good in my context might help. Basically, I've identified two possible issues, only one of which was a problem for me. Firstly it would be for my college aged daughter who is mildly dyslexic. She can read well enough to enjoy fiction, but it definitely requires mental effort on her and therefore the process of reading a textbook is less efficient than it should be, since part of their brain power goes into reading and therefore less brain material is available for understanding. So we tried. It worked and recognized the letters and words of the book with high accuracy. However, the reading voice is unnatural. It's better than Stephen Hawking's famous synthetic speech, but definitely lacks the natural intonation that makes normal speech understandable. In the end, my daughter found that understanding the device's language (while precisely controlling the scrolling of individual lines of text) required more cognitive effort than following the words and "taking hold of them". Dyslexia. If you're in a similar situation, I suspect the only way to make that guess is to try; Each person's struggle with dyslexia will, of course, be a very personal, very individual level of effort, and as the balance shifts, so will the value for that person. Another potential problem for some users is that the device requires a fair amount of manual dexterity (which in turn requires mental focus) to keep track of a word sequence. My daughter has absolutely no problem in this regard, but when I tried it myself (my brain function, dexterity and reading ability were definitely not affected), even I noticed that some attention to line tracing was a necessary part of using it. That. This can be compared to trying to draw a fairly accurate pencil line along a line of text without going beyond that line (otherwise the wrong words will be read from the line above or below). For some people, this level of skill will be unnecessarily exhausting (or, I believe, entirely unattainable). I suppose if you have a potential user draw lines of words in a book with a pencil, you can get an idea of whether it's a problem, not a problem, or not a good start at all. The unnatural reading style is more than aggravated by the fact that lines are read as they are scanned. The result is usually that it reads a line and then pauses while you queue, to read the next line (and the user should of course be able to determine which line to scan next!). That pause could have been avoided if you'd just scan all the text into memory (which apparently you can) and then have the device read it. However, in this thread, I suspect it would be more efficient to use a flatbed scanner, OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech capability read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem. which line should be scanned next!). That pause could have been avoided if you'd just scan all the text into memory (which apparently you can) and then have the device read it. However, in this thread, I suspect it would be more efficient to use a flatbed scanner, OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech capability read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem. which line should be scanned next!). That pause could have been avoided if you'd just scan all the text into memory (which apparently you can) and then have the device read it. However, in this thread, I suspect it would be more efficient to use a flatbed scanner, OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech capability read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem. if only you had scan all the text into memory (which apparently is possible) and the device then reads it. However, in this thread, I suspect it would be more efficient to use a flatbed scanner, OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech capability read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem. if only you had scan all the text into memory (which apparently is possible) and the device then reads it. However, in this thread, I suspect it would be more efficient to use a flatbed scanner, OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech capability read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem. OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech feature read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem. OCR software on your computer, and then let your computer's text-to-speech feature read the document. I must add that there were no problems. When I return, Revain or the seller will ship both ways. I'm a Prime member, which may have influenced this, but the general guideline was that getting it back wasn't a problem.