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USER'S GUIDE
phone numbers are read, the speech synthesis will add the word "area code"
where it is useful etc.
Refer to appendix C for scanning tips and writing and form design rules.
Speech (IRISPen Executive - IRISPen Translator)
Activates the “Read & Speak” speech synthesis.
With the IRISPen Executive, speech synthesis provides clear, natural sound-
ing auditive feedback of the recognized data. “Hands- and eyes-busy” data entry
becomes possible as the user no longer has to look up from his documents to
verify the results on-screen. Text-to-speech also opens a world of multimedia
applications to the IRISPen users.
With the IRISPen Translator, speech synthesis provides clear, natural sound-
ing pronunciation of the scanned source text. To learn how to speak a language,
the user can just scan a text and hear the PC pronounce the words. (To pro-
nounce utterances from the other language, the user inverts the source and target
languages in the IRISPen application window.)
The user’s PC must be equipped with a Windows compatible sound card if
speech synthesis is to work.
Speech synthesis should not be enabled unless the user intends to use it: the
recognition slows down as the user waits for the recognized data to be read
aloud.
The user is warned when he tries to read a language for which no speech
module is available.
Enabling the speech feature disables the option "Sound" on the toolbar auto-
matically: mixing spoken text and system sounds makes no sense.
For optimal speech results, the user is recommended to enable the multiline
scanning mode with the option "Multilines" in the IRISPen application window.
Multiline scanning ensures a natural prosody: when the text-to-speech module
has to pronounce individual lines - “chopped up” text bits - rather than full sen-
tences, the intonation may be somewhat less than “human”.
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