For many people, especially those who are learning a language
(children, whose native tongue is not English and those who
suffer from dyslexia), spelling a word correctly can be
difficult.  We all learned to speak before we could write.

This technology enables words spelled as they are spoken to
be spelled correctly.  It will spell correctly words like
"sossidge, lettis, and menny utha werdz."

Werdz will run on any 32-bit Windows operating system in a
machine with a minimum of a 120Mhz processor, 48MB RAM and
3MB of disk storage.

The software was developed by Graham Lawrence, as an IBM
employee who worked in the IBM UK Laboratories at Hursley
until he retired in 2004. Graham wrote several papers relating
to this technology whilst working in the IBM Scientific Centre,
Winchester, England during the mid-eighties, studying speech synthesis.

To install Werdz, execute werdz.exe.

To execute, Werdz requires two files, the executable, Werdz.exe,
the dictionary, Werdz.dic.

The following changes have been made during 2005 :-
 - A licence is now required to use it after 30 days.
 - The speech recognition feature has been disabled.

The following changes have been made during 2003 :-
 - The definition of words displayed may be looked up in an
   online dictionary. The default dictionary is www.dictionary.com.
   If you would like to change this see the FAQ.txt file for instructions.
   If you are connected to the internet a 'Look up' buttonis displayed.
 - The International Phonetic Alphabet is used to display the pronunciation
   of the selected word. This requires the Arial Unicode MS font.
   If this is not present on the computer you may specify a unicode font to use.
   Please see the FAQ.txt file for instructions.
 - The selected word may be spoken via Microsoft's speech interface (SAPI 5.1)
   if it is present on the computer.  A 'Say' button is displayed.
 - A speech recognition interface has been added which uses Microsoft's speech
   interface(SAPI 5.1) if it is present on the computer.  A 'Reco' button is
   displayed, which when clicked will start speech recognition.  The speech
   recognition interface enables you to spell a word using the NATO phonetic
   alphabet. Please see the FAQ.txt file for download information.

The following changes have been made during 2002 :-
 - The initial screen has been changed to enable one of the
   functions to be started.
 - A Crossword Assistant has been added to enable anagrams
   and words with unknown letters to be found in the Werdz
   dictionary. Not all words are in the dictionary.
 - You can use the Crossword Assistant function directly by
   running Crossword.bat.
 - You may send a note to the author by clicking on the last
   of the functions listed on the initial screen or the
   Author button.

The following changes have been made during 2001 :-
 - New words can be generated by clicking on the 'Neologs'
   button.  The new words will sound the same as the word
   selected but will not be in the dictionary.
 - The number of final sounds for which rhymes are to be
   found can be selected.
 - You can use the Rhymes function directly by running
   Rhymes.bat
 - You can use the Neologs function directly by running
   Neologs.bat

The following changes have been made during 2000 :-
 - Words can be entered as alphabetic characters and digits
   from 0 to 9.  Try entering l8 or 2moro.
 - a new button 'Rhymes' was added which, when clicked, will
   cause all the rhymes of the selected word to be displayed.

The following changes have been made to Werdz during 1999 :-
 - fred will be spelt thread.
 - the form can be stretched to enlarge text boxes and the
   word list box.
 - the most recently found word is displayed for long searches.
 - one can search for more words after the initial search of
   4000 possibilities.


Please refer to FAQ.txt for further information

or send a note to the author - Graham@GandJLawrence.co.uk