Whats the role of speech synthesis?
The speech synthesis or text-to-speech (TTS) capability is available on the IRISPen Executive (Windows and Mac OS) and the IRISPen Translator (Windows), not on the IRISPen Standard. Speech synthesis opens the door for multimedia applications and allows hands- and eyes-busy data entry as your computer reads out all recognized text. You no longer have to look up to the computer screen to verify the results: the IRISPen results are rendered by a human voice, the most natural way of interfacing with a machine! Encode addresses and your sound card will pronounce them, enter figures into a spreadsheet or encoding utility, enter invoices into your bookkeeping software and the IRISPen software reads the figures aloud for verification. With an IRISPen Translator, the speech synthesis (in two languages) takes on a special meaning: all encoded text (in a strange language) is pronounced. Adding speech synthesis to on the fly data capture opens the door of a world of new applications. To learn how
