penfriend xl: an overview

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Welcome to Penfriend Penfriend XL is built on the well established Penfriend XP. As well as multiple languages it adds screen reading and multiple onscreen keyboards. It helps anyone learning foreign languages. It provides speech feedback and screen reading of virtually any text from web or word processor in native voices, highlighting words as they are spoken.

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If you have a literacy difficulty such as dyslexia then Penfriend can help with spelling and grammar. As well as predicting words when you type, Penfriend will read text aloud from websites, documents, in fact any Windows text-based program.

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Page 1: Penfriend XL: An Overview

Welcome to PenfriendPenfriend XL is built on the well established Penfriend XP. As well as multiple languages it adds screen reading and multiple onscreen keyboards.

It helps anyone learning foreign languages. It provides speech feedback and screen reading of virtually any text from web or word processor in native voices, highlighting words as they are spoken.

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European LexiconsPenfriend comes with several lexicons for each language which currently include French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Swedish as well as UK English and Scottish Gaelic. It even has Latin lexicons.

It will also help those with dyslexia and physical disabilities in English and any of the other languages it covers, providing the highest quality word prediction available.

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High Quality VoicesPenfriend XL comes with high quality CereProc voices, currently Scottish Heather, Sarah (Southern English), Katherine (US East Coast) and William (Southern English).

Suzanne (French) is also now available in version 4.

Listen to an example of one of the voices on Penfriend XL

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Create Custom LexiconsTopic and customised vocabulary can easily be added. If you are working on a specific textbook and the text is available in electronic form, you can teach Penfriend the new words in that book.

You can also produce your own lexicons if you have text in that language in electronic form.

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Prediction StylesPenfriend can predict words in alphabetical sorting of predictions…

…and horizontal layout of predictions, as an option.

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Abbreviation ExpansionPenfriend can predict multiple sentences with one abbreviation.

By typing one abbreviation ‘tv’ up to 12 related expansions can be shown and either entered into a document or spoken.

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Penfriend Supporting LiteracyIf you have a literacy difficulty such as dyslexia then Penfriend can help with spelling and grammar.

As well as predicting words when you type, Penfriend will read text aloud from websites, documents, in fact any Windows text-based program.

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Penfriend and your favourite AppsPenfriend even works alongside online apps such as Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive and all your favourite social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter.

See Penfriend in action!

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Clicker IntegrationPenfriend integrates fully with Clicker from Crick Software.

Open Clicker, choose prediction, and it opens Penfriend and the Penfriend predictions come up in the Clicker grids.

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Penfriend ResourcesPenfriend is supported with online help, tutorials and more.

Visit the Penfriend blog.

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Penfriend and Social MediaTo keep up-to-date with developments follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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Penfriend WebsiteAnd don’t forget to visit the Penfriend website. Why not download a trial version of Penfriend? It’s free!!!!

Or contact us: Penfriend Ltd, 30 South Oswald Road, EdinburghEH9 2HG, Tel. 0131 668 2000, Fax. 0131 668 2121

www.penfriend.biz