Premier Assistive Technology Announces the New Video Books for the 21st Century
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Premier Assistive Technology Announces the New Video Books for the 21st Century
Premier VideoCast Studio is a breakthrough in assistive technology. It is the
first technology on the market that creates a Video Podcast of electronic books
and documents. These video files can be loaded onto portable media devices,
allowing individuals for the first time to see their books on video and take it
with them wherever they go.
(PRWEB) October 23, 2007 -- In 2001, Premier Assistive Technology was also the
first company to incorporate MP3 file creation into its products. Text-To-Audio
was a breakthrough concept at the time due to the introduction of MP3 players
on the market. In today's media-driven world, almost everyone has an MP3
player, and assistive technology products should be able to create files that
will play on these devices. Similar to the historical evolution of the
television from the radio, a hybrid video/audio delivery emerged from an
audio-only platform. As part of the continued evolution of audio and video, we
now have the MP3 player, the iPodTM, and the Microsoft ZuneTM. With these most
recent innovations, the timing is now right for assistive technology to
incorporate video-based media.
This is the concept behind Premier Assistive Technology's new VideoCast Studio
software. The VideoCast software is the new benchmark in Text-to-Video
technology. In the past, individuals used text-to-speech to create MP3 files
and had to visualize what was being read. This was great for people with vision
problems, but for sighted people who wanted to see pictures, charts and graphs,
that solution fell short.
Premier Assistive realized that there were significant additional benefits to
be gained from the inclusion of video capabilities in assistive technologies.
Today's portable media players are also able to play video files as well as MP3
files. Similar to the MTV revolution in the '80's and '90's when video became a
very important component of the music itself, video is becoming an important
component of learning for the current generation. Similar to the music video,
Premier Assistive Technology can now combine audio with video and deliver it in
a solution that is portable to meet a variety of literacy needs.
Premier's VideoCast software can convert electronic documents into a Video
Podcast. In doing so, a user is able to both hear and see words as they are
being read while including charts, tables and other graphics. Video playback
can even be paused so that pictures and graphics can be more closely examined
(e.g., zoom). Each page of a book is considered its own video file and allows
the user to create a play list or quickly navigate to a desired page. Premier's
built-in training videos even show users how to quickly convert a book from a
publisher's electronic format (e.g., PDF) into a page-by-page portable video
book.
Premier VideoCast Software creates industry-standard "WMV" and "AVI" video
files. These video files are very compact and only require about 2MB per page
of text, letting the user store about 1,000 pages on a standard 2 GB Flash
device. The video files can be imported and played on most media players such
as the iPhoneTM, iPodTM, Microsoft's ZuneTM, and Premier's VPod. By having
digital content, text and video, stored on a portable media device, students
are now able to read books anywhere without being connected to a computer.
The Premier VideoCast Studio includes the following:
Premier VideoCast Software: Turn documents on your computer into portable
multimedia files which can be optimized in today's hand-held media players.
Premier Presentation Capture: Capture both audio and video presentations, and
turn them into Video Podcasts. Premier Presentation Capture is compatible with
all types of interactive "digital" white boards, including SMART BoardTM and
Promethean.
VPod Video Converter: The video converter is a batch video converter which
converts virtually all video file types, making them compatible with Premier
Assistive Technology's Key to Access VPod.
The Suggested Retail Price for Premier VideoCast Studio is $199.95, but from
now until Dec 31, 2007, you can take advantage of either of the following
offers:
-- Purchase Premier VideoCast Studio for only $99.95 plus S&H.
-- Alternatively, purchase Premier Assistive's VPod at $424.95 plus S&H, and
you can receive a free copy of Premier VideoCast Studio.
Please be sure to mention promotion code VC2007 when you order.
For more information about VideoCast Studio, go to Premier Assistive's web site
and select Educational Solutions.
www.readingmadeeasy.com
Or contact:
Premier Assistive Technology
Executive Offices
1309 N. William St.
Joliet, IL 60435
Phone: 815-927-7390
Fax: 815-722-8802
www.readingmadeeasy.com
Premier Assistive Technology - Canada
PO Box 875, STN A
Sydney, NS
B1P 6J4
Phone: 902-482-4680
Fax: 902-270-5224
www.readingmadeeasy.ca
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