Description of the KEY5 2008 line of software
KEYTip Chinese-English Online Reading Tool for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/VISTA
This is a tool for reading and learning Chinese from the Chinese web, or any other Chinese text on your computer screen. Simply pointing with your mouse at Chinese words makes the Pinyin-with-tones version and the English meaning appear. At the same time, the words are read aloud in standard Mandarin. An indispensable tool for learning and reading Chinese on the Internet.KEY5 2008 Multimedia for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/VISTA
This package includes all the components and features of "KEY Pro" as described above, plus the multimedia feature of TTS (Text To Speech). Thus, in addition to being a tool for the reading comprehension of Chinese text, the TTS feature allows the student to hear any Chinese text on the screen spoken in Mandarin Chinese through the sound system of the computer, in a natural human voice. Highlight your Chinese sentence on the screen, click on the TTS button on the KEY toolbar, and listen!This multimedia package has become the basis of numerous installations in language computer labs worldwide, and is used in site license installations. The TTS component can be downloaded in a compressed demo version. The package can be registered online for US$195, and will be automatically mailed in form of a CD-ROM (with the TTS module of 125 MB in its Hi-Fi-version included) to the address given in the registration.
MacKEY5 2008 Multimedia Version for Mac OS X
This is a self-contained version of KEY for the Macintosh. It includes the powerful KEY Pinyin input method with its proven conversion engine, and 12 Chinese fonts and the Chinese/English Dictionary plus the Text To Speech module, which allows you to listen to the Mandarin reading of any Chinese text passage in the MacKEY edit screen. It can be ordered on CD-ROM for US$195.00.Back to Order Form .