Penpower PCE Writing Pad Scanner User Manual


 
Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert
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3.6.2 Speech Practice
Click the Speech practice button. In the Speech practice dialog box. Select a phrase
to practice.
1. Display/Hide Pinyin : Display or hide the Pinyin of the selected phrase.
2. Text to speech : Hear the Chinese in the Chinese pane.
3. Voice recognition : Clicking this button will display the message Please speak the
word you want to search. Say the selected phrase out aloud. If your pronunciation is cor-
rect, you will see Pronunciation is correct. If not, you will see Sorry, your pronuncia-
tion is not correct, please try it again.
4. Previous phrase and Next phrase : Select the previous or next phrase and practice
its pronunciation.
3.6.3 Character Tracing
Select a phrase such as
紐約
then click
the Character tracing button. Now
click the character to lookup the trace for a
character such as
. An animation of how
to write the word
is shown along with
its stroke number and its radical. Use the
Ink Speed slider to adjust the speed of the
animation. You can click Practice for real-
time writing practice.
For more details, please refer to the ex-
planation in 3.4.2 Basic Chinese Learning
Functions in the Sentence Segmentation
Field-Standard Trace.