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The IRISPen Translator software also offers clipboard translation. You

translate texts without scanning, the text to be translated is simply copied to the

clipboard: think of texts entered on the keyboard, wordprocessor files you open,

e-mail messages you receive, Internet web pages you consult etc.

The IRISPen Translator English-French translates English into French and

vice versa. Extra translation libraries can be installed. The currently available

versions are: English-French, English-German, English-Italian, English-Portuguese

and English-Spanish. Contact I.R.I.S. to learn the availability of new language

pairs.

The speech synthesis opens the door to a world of new applications! To

learn how to speak a language, you can just scan a text and hear the PC pro-

nounce the words. The speech feature is offered for the language pair: the En-

glish-French version of the IRISPen Translator for instance has the English and

French speech libraries. (Speech modules for additional languages can further

extend the user’s system. Ten languages are currently available: English and

British English, Brazilian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Mexican, Russian and

Spanish.)

The multiline scanning is mandatory for the IRISPen Translator. As sen-

tences in most cases comprise several lines of text, “multiline” scanning allows to

buffer several lines before the output process - text insertion, pronunciation and

translation - is triggered. Otherwise you would pronounce partial sentences and

(try to) translate ungrammatical text lines as you scanned them, with unavoidably

weak results.

EQUIPPING YOUR IRISPEN WITH OPTIONS

Finally, there are some options available for the IRISPen product range.

The speech synthesis of the IRISPen Executive is limited to a single lan-

guage of your choice, the IRISPen Translator is equipped with the speech librar-

ies of the two languages in the language pair. You can extend your system by

installing text-to-speech modules for additional languages. Ten languages are cur-

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