The *TALŌ speller/correctors are conceptually different from other ‘spellers’. The morphological principles applied to their mechanism stem from our vast experience with hyphenators. Reliability is ensured by the principle of fuzzy distance: an alternative is presented that really resembles the misspelled word, including reversals (e.g. teh instead of the) and missing (initial) letters. Each European language has a very distinct character of its own. Therefore, each speller has its own language model, describing its characteristic behaviour, guaranteeing its speed. The most recent spellers go beyond the word boundary leaving the fundamental principles unchanged (e.g. the error an house, see also the section Languages Continue ...).

The spellers follow the rules and exceptions of spelling governed by leading academies. Abbreviations, punctuation marks, fixed formats like dates and numbers (financial data), and Internet addresses are being controlled during the spelling process. The speller has a learning capability but forgets infrequent, unimportant words. Spelling reforms, from old to new and vice versa, can be executed automatically. Spelling changes (for example between leading academies or between American and British English) are an option too. You can create and implement your favourite style for communication with the external world.

Try a search with wild cards in the large lexicons for interesting and surprising information!

Although the spellers have been designed and built for expert users who value their own style or are working in a prepress environment, they are extremely easy to use.

The *TALŌ speller/correctors are also useful in an OCR environment, where individual letters of correct texts are often mutilated (for instance replaced by numbers or punctuation marks or by blanks).

The existing user interface has the usual speller functions but can be adapted to your own environment and requirements on request.

We have spellers for financial, scientific, industrial or graphic arts usage and they can help in many other business categories as well.

You can count on *TALŌ speller/correctors for:

• support of Windows Vista and x64 platforms ,
• new modeless spell check dialog design
• UNICODE: supplying you with native Unicode functionality ,
• accuracy: supplying you with proper alternatives, numerical notation & punctuations
• speed: the basic principles guarantee an economical spelling procedure
• automatic learning capability for unknown words, but outdated words are forgotten
• browsing through the lexicons for surprising words
• switching between languages at any moment during a spelling session
• new features each year

The automatic learning capabilities and automation of text correction contribute to a smooth progress of spell check sessions, principles normally absent in spell check tools.
So you can count on *TALŌ's speller/correctors to save you time and money.

*TALŌ speller/correctors have been implemented as a shared library available for different platforms (Windows x86 & x64, Mac OS X 10.4+, Linux Intel x86 & x64 (view Linux/OS X example), Sun's Solaris 9 sparc). The library (current version 6.2.2, March 2010), now supporting more then 94 language modules, has become a tool that focuses on spell checking crossing the word boundary. Today Asian and African modules are included in our system too.

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