Kurzweil

What is Kurzweil 3000?

Kurzweil 3000 is an inclusive learning tool utilized by students, staff, and faculty of the University. This inclusive technology provides a collection of powerful reading, writing, and study skill tools that will improve the retention of your course materials.

How do I get access to Kurzweil?

Kurzweil is available to all students, staff, and faculty and can be used for many purposes. If you are interested in using Kurzweil, please select the Kurzweil 3000 Login Page(opens in new window).

Unsure Where To Start?

Learn the basic reading and writing features of Kurzweil by watching the Kurzweil 3000 Playlist (opens in new window) or accessing the Kurzweil Edu Academy (opens in new window) for instructions of all tools. 

If you have specific questions about Kurzweil 3000 or would like to schedule a time to participate in a live demo, please contact us at oats@csuchico.edu.

Tutorials

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• Highlighting and Taking Notes

  Highlight and Take Notes

  Kurzweil has highlighting and note taking tools to help you study! While in Kurzweil, selecting “Tools” from the taskbar will give you highlighter options such as color and style. After selecting the highlighter color and style you desire, you can select any text to highlight. To stop highlighting and use your normal cursor, click tools and click “Selector”.

  To undo highlights you can click tools again and select eraser to make revision.

  

  Your highlighted content can be converted into notes by clicking “File”, then “Extract Highlights to Column Notes”. See Tips for Using Kurzweil for more information regarding highlights and note taking basics.

  Under “Tools” you will find many note taking options like footnotes, voice notes, column notes, sticky notes, bubble notes and bookmarks, (shown in image above).

• Text to Voice Tool

  Text to Voice Tool

  Kurzweil provides text to speech options which allow you to personalize the voice that reads your work back to you. The default reading language and voice respectively are English and Karen, these can be changed in Kurzweil’s preferences in the “Reading Settings.” You can also change the Reading Colors used to highlight the text as it is read.

  

  To activate the text to voice tool, select “Start Reading” under the “Read” tool or press the play button. You can click anywhere to stop the voice, to start from where you left off, use your cursor to select the starting point and select “Start Reading”. By accessing the “Read” tool you can set reading speed by words per minute, or by selecting the “Read Slower” or “Read Faster” button.

  
• Turning Notes into MP3 Files

  Turning Notes into Mp3 Files

  You can use Kurzweil to convert your books, documents, or notes into Mp3 files which you can download and listen to on the go! To do this you simply need to upload or type a document, select “File” and choose “Create Audio File.” You want to make sure you name it something memorable and select the Mp3 format option.

  On Mac the Mp3 file will be saved to Itunes in a playlist you can rename.  On Windows the file will be saved to a playlist in the “Windows Media Player”. Make sure you change the file path to your “P: Drive”.

  
• Uploading a Document

  Using the Website

  If you’re using the website application, when you first sign in, you will be brought to the home page. In the home page click the icon “Computer,” and navigate to the desired file for upload. The document will take a few seconds to convert into Kurzweil format.

  

  Using the application on our computer

  For uploading files using the software application, open Kurzweil and navigate to the “File” dropdown menu in the application toolbar, (top of window for Windows, top of screen for Mac). Click the “Open” option in the “File” dropdown menu and navigate to the file you want to upload.

  MAC Image of Kurzweil App.

  

  PC/Windows Image of Kurzweil App.