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See the table below to compare our main products and decide which one best suits your needs
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- Buy Penfriend XP
- Buy Penfriend XL
- Buy Penfriend Portable
- Buy Penfriend products VAT free if you are eligable.
- Reduced prices for those who use Penfriend at school or at work and also wish to use it at home.
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Versions of Penfriend in other languages
- Buy Penfriend FR: French language version
- Buy Penfriend DE: German language version
- Buy Penfriend ES: Spanish language version
- Buy Penfriend NA: US English version
- Penfriend IT: Italian language version (buy through auxilia.it)
- Penfriend XP-SE: Swedish language version (buy through hargdata.se)
Product Comparison Table
Many of the features in Penfriend are optional under the control of the user.
| Penfriend XP | Penfriend XL | Penfriend XP Portable | Penfriend XL Portable | |
| New voices from Cereproc including Suzanne in French. | ||||
| Homophone support. | ||||
| Type on hover. | ||||
| Speak on Hover. | ||||
| Transparency. | ||||
| Alphabetical sorting of predictions, as an option. | ||||
| Horizontal layout of predictions, as an option. | ||||
| Display options, giving clearer and more colourful display of predictions. | ||||
| Improved smart punctuation, and learning words within quotations. | ||||
| Improved interaction and keystrokes including tabs. | ||||
| Improved speaking of words. | ||||
| Expanded abbreviations - unlimited length and number of abbreviations. Up to 12 expansions for each abbreviation. | ||||
| Learns words in inverted commas and after tabbing. | ||||
| Empty Lexicon for simplifying the production of topic lexicons | ||||
| Ability to change fonts, font sizes and font, background and highlighting colours. | ||||
| Predictor display fixed or follow cursor. | ||||
| Selection of words by numbers or function keys or number keypad. | ||||
| Word Prediction in English UK and US. | ||||
| Word Prediction in other languages, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Latin, Spanish, Swedish, Scottish Gaelic. | ||||
| Screen Reading. | ||||
| Speech Feedback. | ||||
| English On-Screen Keyboard. | ||||
| Multi Language On-Screen Keyboards. | ||||
| Create topic lexicons. | ||||
| Create lexicons and predict in new languages (Latin 1 characters) | ||||
| Core lexicons | ||||
| Edit words, recency, capitalisation etc in lexicons | ||||
| Prediction on word frequency and recency | ||||
| Word length control | ||||
| Ability to prevent prediction of specific words | ||||
| Spelling, Thesaurus, Dictionaries and translation* | ||||
| Text Magnification | ||||
| Analysis of spelling mistakes | ||||
| Learn new words as you type | ||||
| Learn words from Clipboard or Text file | ||||
| Next word prediction | ||||
| Learn new words | ||||
| Voices | ||||
| Highlight, speak and enter predicted words | ||||
| Speaks phonemes | ||||
| Integration with Clicker 5.2 and 4 | ||||
| Switch Access | ||||
| Abbreviation Expansion, up to 12 expansions for any abbreviation | ||||
| Smart Punctuation | Works on networks | |||
| Free downloadable Demonstration version | ||||
| Downloadable Upgrade patch |
