Press Releases

May 1999 (1)
Clicker 3 - new developments

Following the success of Clicker 3 at this year’s Bett Awards, the judges commended the way that the product continued to be developed in response to the comments and needs of teachers.

Ideal for literacy in the classroom, Clicker 3 version 3.5 is now available with a range of new features that make the program even more user friendly. Simply point and click to use this program as a writing tool – it comes complete with its own word processor. Or, using the same basic process, access the powerful multimedia features, including sound and pictures.

At-a-glance, the new Clicker 3 version 3.5 includes the following:

• completely new speech - The new Microsoft speech system offers a choice of 3 voices and allows variation of speed and pitch. The use of SAPI (the new standard engine for software speech) means the program will work with other SAPI compliant speech engines too, so that it can speak in other languages.
• pictures-as-you-type – With this option turned on, Clicker looks up a picture for each word as it is typed and, if it finds one, displays it immediately above the text. The required picture library can be specified, so that different graphic or symbol sets can be used.
• over 2000 new colour graphics – Our own picture library has now been expanded to over 400 graphics, including photographs, and new ones are added regularly, down-loadable from our website. In addition, the 1800 most popular graphics from the Mayer-Johnson PCS collection are also part of the package.
• support for jpeg and gif graphics – Now it’s really easy to drop in pictures straight from a digital camera or scanner.
• support for Penfriend – This allows for integrated word prediction. If Penfriend is installed, the predicted words can appear directly in the Clicker grid.

Further Information: John Crick at Crick Software Email: john@cricksoft.com
Press Contact: Ruth Hamson Tel: 01604 671691 Fax: 01604 671692 Email ruth@cricksoft.com

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