This document discusses hands-on activities demonstrating the Kurzweil 3000 text-to-speech tool. It describes Kurzweil as a powerful but expensive tool that can help students with reading disabilities, visual impairments, language processing needs, and comprehension issues. The document outlines the steps for a Kurzweil demonstration, including opening the software, exploring toolbar features, loading a sample text, using text-to-speech and highlighting functions, and creating bubbles for questions to aid reading comprehension.