Portable Pen Scanner

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Penpower Chinese Expert lets you learn Mandarin from any source such as Chinese web sites, books, newspapers or magazines, in either simplified or traditional Chinese, in addition to our expertly selected lessons. Unlike other Chinese learning CDs or DVDs which you will probably throw away after a few months, Penpower Chinese Expert uses revolutionary intelligent software built with Penpower's latest award-winning technologies in phrase segmentation, speech recognition, text to speech, optical character recognition, handwriting and even machine translation. It's software you will keep for years to come. There is no limit to how much you can learn when using this Penpower Chinese Expert. It trains your listening comprehension with clearly pronounced text; your speech ability with instant speech recognition correction feedback and oral exams; your reading comprehension with an onscreen phrase dictionary and online dictionary; your handwriting skills with handwriting recognition technology. Penpower Chinese Expert also encourages and facilitates a user community, where you can share with others your learning materials by packing your recording, your translation and any notes you take in a convenient file. Just download these fun and dynamic learning materials. You¿re guaranteed that learning Mandarin will be an enjoyable and rewarding journey. On top of that, we also guarantee your satisfaction by offering lifetime software upgrades free of charge; you will always have the latest and the greatest software. Penpower Chinese Expert is truly a lifetime learning companion! [ Hardware Specifications ] ¿ Dimension (WxHxD): 131×31×19 mm (5.15x1.22x0.74) ¿ Weight: 45g (excludes USB cable) (1.5 oz.) ¿ Interface: USB 2.0 ¿ Scanning speed: 15 cm/sec ¿ Character size¿5~22 pt [ System Requirements ] ¿ Pentium II 300 CPU or above ¿ 128MB of RAM ¿ 220MB of available hard disk space ¿ Windows 2000/XP/vista 32bit ¿ USB port ....read more

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Brand: PenPower
Model: Penpower Chinese Expert
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2 Responses to “Penpower Chinese Expert Pen Scanner Edition”

1. Jing F. Shih says:

   December 10, 2009 at 12:00 am

   Fantastic tool for me and my students
   Rating:4 out of 5 stars
   I’m a Chinese teacher and my friend recommends this for me. This is a fantastic teaching material and helps my student a lot. A lot of features in this tool and inspire them to read more Chinese books. I just want to share my experience when I use this with my students.
   
   1. I could choose any teaching material and scan into computer. I don’t need to type whole article anymore. In addition, It is simple for us to place pinying on the top of every phrase and they would practice their pronunciation by listening to TTS(text-to-speech).
   
   2. My students can record their voice in special file and send to me. I would right what they are saying. Also, I can record my voice and send to them, so they will have more options to learn speaking.
   
   3. This software with huge Chinese character database can show every stroke for students. They can follow it step by step.
   
   4.Every meaning aside Chinese phrase helps them to read whole article easily, so I don’t need to clarify every phrase for them. It really saves our time and makes our class more fun.
   
2. John Montana says:

   December 15, 2009 at 12:00 am

   It’s a must-have tool to learn Chinese
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   Allow me to quote from a newsletter first:

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   Chinese is quickly becoming a well loved study choice as a foreign language but it can still be hard to find resources and tools to support a Chinese learning environment. Penpower Chinese Expert provides the right setup by immersing learners in a Mandarin listening and speaking setting — but with a twist.

   Unlike most other Chinese language programs Penpower is a learning TOOL; not curriculum or teaching materials, but a customizable, open end tool that allows students to use it in their own way:

   1. Open-end Tool
   
   # Penpower Chinese Expert uses phrase segmentation, speech recognition, text to speech technology, optical character recognition, handwriting and even machine translation software to basically convert any resource into a digital format.
   
   # Students can utilize any resource; magazines, books, and newspapers, and transform them into learning materials.
   
   # Students can also use the copy/paste function to turn Web-based articles and other digital formats into learning materials.

   2. Immediate Feedback
   
   # The Penpower tools combine a number of different elements to make a language environment that supports reading/writing, speech, and listening skills development.
   
   # Students can strengthen listening comprehension with the clearly pronounced text feature.
   
   # Students improve their speech ability with instant speech recognition correction feedback and oral exams.
   
   # Reading comprehension develops through the use of an onscreen phrase dictionary and online dictionary.
   
   # Student handwriting skills, an vital element of learning Chinese, are supported through handwriting recognition technology.
   
   # Penpower Chinese Expert also provides a user community where students can share learning materials and encourage one another in the process.
   
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   I found this newsletter captured the essence of this product. It provides you a total immersion environment for learning the Chinese language. If you are taking an online class or a class in school, this tool is like a 24×7 personal tutor with you.

   1. The pen scanner is a powerful tool by itself. There are 13000+ traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan, 6700+ simplified Chinese characters used in mainland China. The scanner recognizes them all. In addition, the scanner also recognize 4000+ Hong Kong characters, Japanese characters and English. It’s really handy when you want to turn printed text into electronic form. Fantastic for students!

   2. You can use the tool to convert traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.

   3. The tool provides stroke orders for all the Chinese characters (13000+ traditional and 6700+ simplified). You can practice your handwriting either with a mouse or a tablet, it will tell you when your handwriting is recognizable.

   4. The tool provides pinyin or zhuyin for all the Chinese characters. You can even place pinyin on traditional characters, or zhuyin on simplified Chinese characters

   5. The tool provides Chinese English dictionary and phrase dictionary.

   6. The most valuable feature is “sentence segmentation”, it breaks up a sentence into smaller components to aid your comprehension of the sentence. Then you can use your mouse to hover over them to see the English meaning.

   7. You can hear mandarin pronunciation in TTS for characters, phrases or sentences. You can also record your own speech, and playback too.

   8. When you are all alone, the speech recognition feature comes in handy. You practice on the phrases, and the software will tell you straight away how excellent your pronunciation is.

   9. The translation feature built-in is just as excellent as yahoo or google translate if not better.

   10. The community share is a fantastic feature for fellow Chinese learners to share their Penpower Chinese Expert files. http://www.penpowerinc.com/5_0service/5_3pce-share.html

   11. There is a blog located at penpower-chinese-expert.blogspot.com to share a young girl’s experience of learning Chinese.