MKP - Assistive Software Products - Read & Write Access

About Penfriend XL

Penfriend XL extends the performance and range of features available in Penfriend XP to many European languages and adds new facilities:

Word prediction in many languages
Screen reading in many languages
On-screen keyboards for many languages

Using Penfriend XL

Penfriend XL provides, in many languages, the literacy support to dyslexic and physically disabled writers that Penfriend XP already provides in English. Now pupils can type French, Spanish, or one of the other languages with fewer key strokes and with the word prediction that can be such a help to dyslexic writers. It will also be of value to anyone learning foreign languages. It will provide speech feedback and screen reading of virtually any text from web or word processor in native voices, highlighting words as they are spoken. It will also simplify the typing of European languages when your computer is set to operate in the UK. It comes with several lexicons for each language which currently cover French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedish as well as UK and US English. It even has Latin lexicons.

Topic vocabulary can easily be added. Thus if you are working on a specific textbook and the text is available in electronic form, in about a minute you can teach Penfriend the new words in that book. If we don't have a lexicon for a language you want to use you can produce your own if you have substantial amounts of text in that language in electronic form.

Penfriend integrates fully with both Clicker 4. Open Clicker, choose prediction, and it opens Penfriend and the Penfriend predictions come up in the Clicker grids. New preferences have been introduced. For instance you can now set the minimum length of word predicted. Thus when selected, Penfriend will only predict words longer than a length you set.

Users of Penfriend XL

For those with dyslexia or physical disabilities.

Features:

Word prediction in many European Languages
Screen Reading with Native Voices
On-screen Keyboards for Multiple Languages
Integration with Clicker
Switch Access
Lexicon Editing and Topic Lexicons
Abbreviation Expansion
Smart Punctuation
Sensible Option