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natural prosody. When the text-to-speech module has to pronounce individual
lines, rather than full sentences, the intonation may be somewhat less than “hu-
man”.
The multiline reading mode is simply mandatory for the IRISPen Translator, it
is essential for language learning and translation aid. It takes a click of the pen
button at the end of a sentence or paragraph to “flush” the scanned text, that is to
insert it in the application (or copy it to the clipboard) and start the speech and
translation process. Correct pronunciation and translation imply that full sentences
are scanned, otherwise the system would pronounce partial sentences and (try
to) translate ungrammatical text lines, with unavoidably weak results.
It should be noted that the pen button remains a programmable command
button controlled by the "Pen Button" button on the toolbar. When multiline scan-
ning is enabled, the first click of the pen button triggers the “flush”, all consecu-
tive pen button clicks are interpreted according to their programming (if any). An
immediate double-click preceding the “flush” is also interpreted as the “flush”
command.
When this option is disabled, the text output is transmitted automatically to the
target application; the user does not have to press the pen button to start the
output process.
Related Command
The basic settings can also be enabled by loading IRISPen settings with the
command "Open Settings" under the "File" menu.
IRISPEN CONTROL ON WINDOWS TASKBAR
The IRISPen control on the Windows taskbar confirms that the IRISPen ap-
plication is running.
It indicates whether the IRISPen is available - if the pen scanner is detached
from your PC’s USB port, a different icon is displayed.
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