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March 13, 2008 - StudentMate is the result of One2OneMate philosophy, which was founded on the simple premise that schools need an affordable, and highly durable computing device that doesn’t require an army of technicians and network support personnel to manage them.
Designed with the young student in mind , StudentMate concentrates on key features required for an efficient learning at school and elsewhere. StudentMate is designed to offer teachers and young students the means for affordable, durable, and student specific technology that is adaptable to today's changing education environment.
It integrates key features such as a large colour touch screen, wireless and Ethernet connectivity, industry standard software, email capabilities, full size laptop keyboard, mouse support , MP3 play back, and speech capability.
“A research headed by Prof. Jean Casey of California State University at Long Beach demonstrates that speech enabled word processors play a key role in the development of written literacy. Using Acapela text to speech, students can hear any text read out loud from the word processor, notes, PDF Viewer and web browser with either male, female, girl or boy voices, for an optimised result in learning acquisition” comments Michael E. Spencer, CEO of One2OneMate. “One2OneMate is committed to offering education a true laptop alternative that can be easily configured to pupil needs. The key philosophy behind our engineering efforts is to develop a powerful affordable device while integrating latest useful technology”
Acapela text to speech adds the vocal dimension to the interface, providing to young students an interactive, user friendly way to interact with the device. It actively contributes to invent a new, stimulating way to use and benefit from the computer relationship.
“We are very proud to speech enable such an innovative tool as StudentMate. This innovative approach is fully compliant with Acapela’s one, which aims to help interfaces become more natural and intuitive to better learn, play, discover, share and progress, for people of all ages.” Comments Lars-Erik Larrsson, CEO of Acapela Group.
More information at http://www.one2onemate.com and www.acapela-group.com
