A lifelong learning environment.

Penpower Chinese Expert (writing pad) employs the latest technologies in voice recognition, segmentation of text, handwriting recognition, optical character recognition, text-to-speech and machine translation to bring you the most advanced Chinese learning environment for a total immersion of the Chinese language. It will sure make you learning Chinese faster, it's a tool set for your lifelong enrichment and enjoyment. Your learning material is not limited to text books any more, you can use any Chinese text from books, magazines, newspapers or websites.  It's as if you are living and breathing in a Chinese city, you can listen, speak, write and translate Chinese. It will correct you automatically if you didn't pronounce it correctly with our voice recognition technology, or wirte it correctly with our handwriting recognition technology.  It doesn't matter whether you have traditional or simplified Chinese text, it handles them all, as a matter of fact, you can convert them back and forth. Phonetic systems of Pinyin or Zhuyin are included, you can use them both in either simplified or traditional Chinese.

• Take in any Chinese text, be it traditional or simplified, from any sources: websites, books, managines or newspapers.

• Conversion between traditional and simplified Chinese.

• Auto addition of phonetics in Pinyin or Zhuyin

• Segment Chinese text into groups of logical phrases, the first step in comprehension of Chinese language.

• The state of the art Text-to-Speech (variable speed) closely resembles native Chinese speech. 

• Recording your own speech or from a teacher or a native Chinese speaker.

• Mouse over dictionary, phrase dictionary and optional on line search from online dictionary.

• Chinese character stroke animation, practice your own handwriting with feedback from our handwriting recognition engine.

• Auto-building all phrases with options to add your own notes.

• Practice your speech on those phrases, our voice recognition engine will tell you how well your pronunciation is.

• Speacking quizzes: have a phrase in your mind, say the phrase, it will tell you how close you reach your goal.

• Voice reader: the state of the art text-to-speech is embedded in most Windows applications (Word, internet browsers ...) with a click of a button. You can hear either Mandarin or Cantonese speech in those Windows applications.
• The state of the art translation engine keeps you informed and entertained.

• With Penpower Jr. handwriting pad, you can correct or add your own Chinese text. 

• Dimensions110mm * 90mm * 22mm
• Weight110g (excludes USB cable)
• Interface: USB 2.0
• Writing area: 55mm*45mm
• Microphone is not included. It's highly recommended you use a microphone to fully use all the features.

• Pentium II 300 CPU or above
• 64MB of RAM
• 150MB of available hard disk space
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32bit)
• USB port

• Penpower Jr. writing pad
• Software CD
• Quick Guide
• Registration card

• Indigo, age 12, all jokes.