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As is to be expected of a multilingual system, up to 10 languages can be
supported.
PREPARING FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Click on the "Speech" button on the toolbar (or enable the option "Speech"
under the "Options" menu) to activate the speech synthesis.
Doing so disables the option "Sound" automatically: it doesn’t make any sense
to mix real speech and system sounds!
Evidently, your PC must be equipped with a Windows compatible sound card
if the speech synthesis is to work. Do not enable the speech feature unless you
really intend to use it: the recognition slows down as you wait for the recognized
data to be read aloud.
Enable the multiline reading mode to ensure a natural prosody. (Multiline
reading is disabled by default.) When the text-to-speech module has to pronounce
individual lines - “chopped up” text bits - rather than full sentences, the intonation
may be somewhat less than “human”.
Unless additional language modules were installed, the speech library of the
IRISPen Executive is limited to the language selected by the user at installation
time. The IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech libraries of the two
languages in the language pair. For instance, the English-French version of the
IRISPen Translator has both the English and French speech libraries. You are
warned when you try to read a different language.
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