DiscoveryPEN™ is part of UK-based publishing company, Mantra Lingua Ltd, which is the world’s largest publisher of dual language books. It publishes books for the European, North American and Australian markets in English with over 52 languages. DiscoveryPEN™ is a technology where sound is triggered from paper. This technology has been successfully used in children’s educational resources, labelling for the blind and partially-sighted, the birdwatching community and now, in enhancing the experience of visitors to small and medium-sized museums and heritage houses/tours. Mantra Lingua is a publisher with a technological edge. It has a history of managing and operating within partnerships. Examples of partners:

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• Lake Ledge Naturalist: Specialist in audio interpretation

• Publishing: Mantra Lingua, Walker Books, Macmillan Publishing, Barefoot Books, Little Tiger Press etc. Making dual language versions of popular picture books, many of which are sound-enabled with TalkingPENs

• Educational: EU project with transnational project team. Developing “thinking resources”

• RNIB: Jointly developed the PENfriend, specifically designed for people in the blind and partially-sighted community

• Imaginox: Advised on pedagogy for an online film school

• Kadam: A print and online magazine on dance, where the print magazine is sound-enabled.

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The experience in managing partnerships is an important skill we bring to any potential client for the DiscoveryPEN™. We do not just sell the DiscoveryKIT as described on this site, but behind the kit is a publishing support that includes translations (into 52 languages), design and illustration, software for sound-enabling, printing. This is important for small venues that wish to create their own tours but have budget limitations. We also work closely with those venues that wish to go through their own tour developers. TalkingPEN is a generic noun for a family of pens including the DiscoveryPEN™. This pen can be used on any other resource published by Mantra Lingua. For further information please visit: www.mantralingua.com

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