Penpower Chinese Expert (Writing Pad Edition)

by PenPower

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 3.5 x 0.9 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013A1VWC
• Item model number: Penpower Chinese Expert
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #75 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Accessories > Scanner Accessories
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 23, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Break down the barriers of communication with the Penpower Chinese Expert writing pad. With one easy learning tool, you'll have the power to write or modify Chinese text, allowing you to easily enter characters into your computer while simultaneously having access to features such as reading, writing, translating, listening, and speaking in Chinese.

The PenPower Chinese Expert writing pad recognizes any stroke order when writing a character, making it the perfect learning tool for learners. In addition, the program comes with three easy-to-use interfaces that break down Chinese text utilizing the functions of Penpower Chinese Expert Chinese-English Translation Interface, Sentence Segmentation Interface, and Phrase Database Management, making the process of learning Chinese both faster and easier. This software recognizes more than 13,000 traditional Chinese characters and 6,700 simplified Chinese characters in both horizontal and vertical alignment, and provides pronunciation and phrase structures of texts.

The Penpower Chinese Expert software utilizes intelligent syntax technology, allowing you to listen to correct pronunciation of characters or whole sentences. You can also record live pronunciations from fluent Chinese speakers for review. Reading Chinese becomes as easy as scanning text from books, newspapers, or magazines. The software will help you pinpoint unknown Chinese characters, their radicals and strokes, and their meaning in English. You'll also be able to take quick quizzes on your PC to polish up your spoken Chinese, and translate words, phrases, or sentences easily from a dual Chinese to English dictionary. The Penpower Chinese Expert pen scanner is the first step in becoming fluent. It comes backed by a one-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

What's in the Box
Penpower Chinese Expert handwriting pad, pen, software CD, user's manual, and registration card.

Product Description

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): 110×22×90 mm (4.33"x0.86"x3.54") ¿ Weight: 110g (4.3 oz.) ¿ Writing area : 55×45 mm [ System Requirements ] ¿ Intel Pentium processor or compatible ¿ 64MB of RAM ¿ 150MB of available hard disk space ¿ Windows 2000/XP/vista ¿ USB port

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great gift for friend, April 17, 2008

By 

Kuang Ping Lee - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Penpower Chinese Expert (Writing Pad Edition) (Office Product)

Writing pad can use to learn Chinese character. Good tool for learner. This software shows every stroke and practice with writing pad. We can adjust speed of writing character and follow it. Not only imitate how to write but also recognize what you write. More important, this writing pad also can use in other software such as word and MSN. We use that to input Chinese character. The only thing I have to complain is we cannot input pce file to ms-word.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good so far, September 10, 2010

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Froddy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Penpower Chinese Expert (Writing Pad Edition) (Office Product)

Bought this for my wife so she could chat in Chinese to her friends overseas. Works great and so far no problems with Windows 7. We bought this in Vancouver for $50. Other than the box, it looks exactly the same.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars crash city, December 22, 2010

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J. Lau - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Penpower Chinese Expert (Writing Pad Edition) (Office Product)

A whole lot of problems with this program on 64 bit windows 7 home premium. The penpower jr program constantly crashes and when opened, prevents other programs from running like MS word 2003, 2007, Google Chrome etc. Seems to only work well with word pad. Not surprising since word pad is a 32-bit app and penpower jr is actually just a 32-bit app. Have updated to the Nov 2010 update but its of no help.
Maybe it will work better on windows 7 32bit. Don't know but for my configuration, its a horror.

update: 12/27/2010. My problem still exist but I bump this up by 1 star. Whatever the problem may be, the vendor has been extremely helpful in trying to get this resolved. I emailed them and they actually called me within a few hours. They have been emailing/calling me frequently trying to help me resolved this. While the problem persist, I am impressed by their customer service.