D/S Dolphin SuperNova Magnification & ScreenReader USB

Dolphin’s most flexible assistive technology software. SuperNova Magnifier & Screen Reader USB offers a fast, reliable combination of screen reading, speech and magnification, with support for braille displays. 

SuperNova Magnifier & Screen Reader USB enables you to explore digital information independently. Personalise your experience by customising the magnification, speech, screen reading and braille settings, so they work for you. 

Its combination of magnification and screen reading gives you flexibility to use your computer in ways that suit you. Magnification enables you to comfortably view the screen, and if your sight fluctuates or deteriorates you simply switch on speech or screen reading as needed.

This pocket-size USB gives you instant access to the full power of SuperNova Magnifier & Screen Reader software, on any compatible Windows device. 

Magnification features

Sharp text magnification: Magnify on-screen text as large as you need. SuperNova magnifies from 1.2x to 64x and offers eight magnifier views. SuperNova TrueFonts and Smooth Fonts technology significantly enhance text clarity. All with reduced pixelation and blurring, even at the highest magnification levels. You can read text on screen in Microsoft 365 applications, in web apps and web browsers 

Easy navigation: You can customize, enlarge and track your mouse pointer, and use focus highlights to make exploring the screen easy and intuitive. 

Customise colour schemes: To ensure your experience is comfortable, you can choose your own background and font colour contrasts. There are 24 pre-set colour schemes to choose from, or you can customize your own colour scheme to suit your sight.

Reliable access to Microsoft 365: Use SuperNova Magnification to magnify and read documents, spreadsheets, emails, web browsers and your favourite Microsoft applications and web browsers.

Highlight and track text: SuperNova Magnifier offers a large choice of high-contrast and enlarged mouse pointers and keyboard cursors, along with text highlights to track your text.

Connect & View: Connect a document camera to turn your computer into a video magnifier. This enables you to view any printed material, photographs, prescriptions, labels, etc in a magnified view on your screen. You can also connect to an interactive whiteboard to magnify presentations or classroom whiteboards.

Magnify multiple screens: SuperNova Magnifier can be used with two or more monitors for multi-tasking. You can even choose different magnifier views and colour schemes on each monitor. This helps you work collaboratively and deliver presentations at standard size while magnifying speaker notes. 

Touchscreen magnification: If you use a touchscreen device, the zoom is intuitive to use. TrueFonts, Bold Fonts and Smooth Fonts technology in SuperNova Magnifier ensure clarity of text, even up to 64 times the original size. You can also sharpen and enhance images. 

Magnify Windows apps: SuperNova Magnifier improves accessibility of all your favourite Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook. It also provides superior magnification of web apps such as Microsoft Teams and web browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. 

Speech features

Human-Sounding voices: SuperNova Magnification & Screen Reader offers a range of human-sounding synthetic voices that you can use to listen to the words you type or read from the screen.

Read content: With reliable access to Microsoft 365, you can read all manner of content on your screen, in ways which are accessible to you. You can read Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, emails and websites. All are accessible with both magnification and speech.

Scan & Read: Connect a scanner and you can read printed words.  This helps you maintain your independence and privacy, you don’t need to rely on anyone else to read your letters for you. 

Simply scan any printed information – letters, magazine articles, labels, appointment cards etc – and SuperNova turns the printed words into speech.

Split speech and other audio: Split the speech out from other audio input, so you can still listen to the information on screen that you’re reading or typing while you play or pause music, videos etc.

Control reading speed: Choose how fast or slow the words on screen are read back to you.

Screen reading features

Announcements and verbosity: Choose how much information the screen reader announces (in speech or braille), from minimum to high verbosity. With advanced text style announcements include links, blank lines, spelling errors, capital letters, and formats including font, size, colour, underlined, bold, etc.

Advanced Speak keys: Options to announce characters, word, lines, paragraph, tables and more. You can also use Speak keys to spell and read letters phonetically. 

Braille output: Connect your braille display to type, read and explore the screen. SuperNova works with more than 60 electronic braille display models. It supports more than 50 literary and computer braille translation tables, including Unified English Braille. 

Physical braille mode: Shows the physical layout of the screen through your braille display. This is helpful to understand the layout of web pages and tables. 

Braille input: Use input keys on your braille display to type emails and documents or complete forms. You can use the routing keys to position the cursor and select links, or use your braille display to control the Dolphin Cursor and explore the screen entirely with a braille display. 

USB features

Instant access: The USB remembers your preferences, so your ideal magnification and screen reading settings are ready to use instantly, on any compatible Windows device running Windows 10 or 11.

Guest mode: If you’re not using your own PC, laptop or tablet, you can use the SuperNova USB Guest Mode. This doesn’t require any installation, activation, permissions, or an administrator password. So you can get on with your work quickly, without the need for help. 

Please note: In Guest Mode, some features of SuperNova are restricted, this includes scan and read, and touchscreen magnification. Guest mode is not currently available on devices running Windows 11.

Full access mode: If you use a Windows device regularly, we recommend you install the Dolphin driver for full access to SuperNova. This enables the inbuilt OCR for Scan and Read, touchscreen access if you need it and additional magnification and speech in the login screen and Windows security dialogues. 

Accessible books: SuperNova Magnifier & Screen Reader USB includes EasyReader App for Windows. You can EasyReader App to browse, borrow and read books from accessible book libraries, including RNIB Bookshare, RNIB Library and RNIB Newsagent. You can also import and read documents. 

Free training: Learn more about how to use SuperNova software, with free training courses at the Dolphin Learning Zone.

For more details about this product, check the product instructions manual (in the User Guides tab) to help you decide if this product is suitable for you.

Specifications

• Magnifies screen content up to 64 times original size.
• Change and customize colour schemes.
• Intuitive touchscreen magnification.
• Advanced text smoothing.
• Automatic magnified tracking of cursor and mouse.
• Focus highlighting and custom mouse pointers aid navigation.
• Use across multiple screens.
• Connect document camera to view distance.
• Connect scanner to read printed text aloud.
• Connect to an interactive whiteboard to read display.
• Accessible reading modes include scrolling single-line view.
• Choice of clear, human-sounding voices.
• Complete screen reader.
• Reads documents, web pages and email aloud or with braille.
• Announces all text, punctuation, formatting, spelling errors, etc.
• Explore screen content with mouse, keyboard, or braille display.
• Announces on-screen changes and typed or braille input.
• Extensive braille display support.
• Flexible verbosity levels.
• Includes EasyReader App for Windows.

System requirements

• Computer and processor:  1.5 GHz or faster ×86 or ×64 compatible processor with SSE2 instruction set support. Recommended: 2.0 Ghz or higher multi-core CPU.
• Memory (RAM): 2 GB RAM for 32-bit OS, 4 GB RAM for 64-bit OS. Recommended: 8 GB RAM.
• Hard disk: 2 GB. Recommended: Solid State Drive (SSD).
• Operating system: Windows 11, Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit).
• Monitor resolution: Minimum screen resolution of 800×600.
• Graphics hardware: Graphics adaptor that supports at least DirectX 9.1 and has a WDDM 1.1+ driver. GPU should be integrated (shared system memory) or have a minimum 128MB of GPU RAM. 32-bit colour mode is required. Recommended: DirectX 11 Graphics adaptor with minimum feature level 10.0.
• Audio: Sound card and speakers/headphones for speech output.
• Input: Any standard mouse/trackpad and/or touchscreen.
• Braille output requires a compatible braille display.
• Connectivity: Internet connection is required for automatic updates.
• Other: OCR feature may require an external camera or flatbed scanner.

RNIB Technology Support  

For information or advice on technology that will be suitable for your needs, please contact our team on 0303 123 9999 and speak to one of our advisors within the Sight Loss Advice Service.

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This item is eligible for VAT exemption.