TALKS 9200
Version 1.01
(English)
Manual
Brand & Groeber
Communications GbR
Dresdener Str.
2
D-51373 Leverkusen
Germany
Tel. +49-180-5001579
http://www.talx.de
Copyright ©
2002 Brand & Gröber Communications GbR
Contents
Introduction
What
is a Nokia Communicator?
The Nokia Communicator combines
a cellular phone and a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). When its cover
is closed, you can use its telephone keypad, just like with any other
cellular phone. But its interesting part is unveiled when you open the
cover: There is a small colour screen with four buttons on its right-hand
side, and a QWERTY keyboard. This is the PDA part of the Nokia Communicator.
The Nokia Communicator 9210
and 9210i support GSM-900 and GSM-1800, the Nokia Communicator 9290
supports only GSM-1900, so it is the model for the USA and Canada. The
9210i provides more execution memory and higher speed than the 9210,
and it allows to use speech while online, for instance when getting
e-mail, so we recommend using the 9210i, but TALKS works fine on the
9210 as well.
What
is TALKS 9200?
TALKS 9200 is our screen reader
for the Nokia Communicator 9200 series of phones. It allows a blind
or visually impaired person to use the PDA part of this phone. With
TALKS and the Nokia Communicator 9210, 9210i, or 9290, you can
Write and read text
messages (SMS)
Write and read e-mail
Dial a number from
the phone book
Add new entries
to or edit existing entries in the contacts database
Edit the phone’s
profiles and the other settings
Use the appointment
calendar
Write and read text
documents
Use the calculator,
world and alarm clock, and other tools
TALKS 9200 uses the ETI Eloquence
text-to-speech software, like other screen reading packages. So you
should feel familiar with the voice right away. And TALKS is simple
to operate, so you can concentrate on getting a grip on the Nokia Communicator,
instead of worrying about complicated commands for the screen reader.
License
Agreement
The use of our software package
“TALKS 9200”, from now on called TALKS, is governed by the following
rules. If you do not agree to one of these, you are not allowed to use
TALKS.
Brand & Gröber
Communications GbR, from now on called BuGcom, grants you, the user
of our software package TALKS, the non-exclusive right to use our software
and its accompanying documentation, on any Nokia Communicator 9210/9210i/9290,
for which you have purchased a serial number, or use TALKS in its 10
minutes demonstration mode. By purchasing a serial number, the user
does not receive the ownership of the software. BuGcom remains the owner
of TALKS and its documentation.
BuGcom does not
guarantee for the fitness of TALKS for any particular purpose, or for
the correctness of the software or the accompanying documentation. Any
damage that might be caused directly or indirectly, by the use of TALKS
or any of its components, is the sole responsibility of the user, and
BuGcom can in no case be held liable for such damage. BuGcom reserves
the right to change the software or its documentation without notification.
If one of these
rules contradicts the legal regulations in your country or region, they
are considered as having been replaced by rules that represent their
original sense as closely as possible, and meet these legal regulations.
The German court in Leverkusen is responsible, in case any judicial
conflicts should arise between the user and BuGcom.
For any case, for
which no rule is matching, a new rule in the sense of this license agreement
is considered part of this agreement.
Getting
Started
This chapter explains the keys
of the Nokia Communicator 9200 series phones, both for the telephone
part and the PDA. Just read through this, and you can start using your
Communicator in a few minutes. Of course, this manual is not meant as
a substitution for the Nokia manuals, it is specifically intended for
the first-time TALKS user.
The Phone
Interface
When the cover of the Communicator
is closed, it looks like a standard cellular phone. One noticeable difference
is that the ear piece and the microphone are located on the rear, not
on the front side where you can find the phone display and keypad.
Though TALKS cannot speak the
front keys or phone interface menus, this part of the Communicator is
quite useful for dialling a number quickly, entering DTMF tones, taking
an incoming call, and a few other things.
The Phone
Keypad
As usual, the number keys are
located on the bottom of the phone keypad, with the star key to the
left of 0, and the Pound or Number key to the right of 0, in the bottom
row.
Above the 3 key, you’ll find
the lowered On/Off toggle. To turn the phone on, hold this key down
for about one second. If a PIN code has been assigned to your SIM card,
you then have to enter this number, followed by the Pound key to accept
it. If an error beep is sounded immediately, you have entered the wrong
number, and should re-enter your PIN. But be careful not to enter a
wrong PIN more than twice, or you will need a PUC (Personal Unlock code)
to get your SIM card to work again. If the PIN has been entered correctly,
you will hear two short beeps, then you can start to use the phone.
The Profile key is located
above the 1 key. You probably will not want to use it, since you can
also set the current profile with the Communicator interface, and thereby
with speech assistance.
The Talk key is located directly
above the Profile key, and the End key can be found above the On/Off
toggle. The key at the left edge, immediately below the phone display,
is called Menu, Options, or OK, and the key at the right edge is called
Clear.
The two scroll keys, which
we will call Up and Down, are surrounded by the keys Menu, Clear, Profile,
and the On/Off toggle.
Some Functions
of the Phone Interface
This section lists a few important
functions of the phone interface that are not available through the
Communicator interface, or just easier to access this way. The list
is not meant to be complete, so you should refer to the Nokia User’s
Guide for more information.
To place a phone
call, just dial the number on the phone keypad, and press the Talk
key. You will hear an error signal if no network connection is present.
Press End to terminate a call.
When the phone is
ringing, you can press Talk to take the call, or End to
reject it. When a call comes in while you have another call, you can
use Talk to take the new call, and hold the other one, and then
use Talk again to switch between callers. If you want to establish
a conference call, or perform some other advanced function, we recommend
that you use the Communicator interface.
To mute a call,
i.e. to turn off the microphone and the ear-piece, you can press
Menu, then Up, then Menu again. The same key combination
will un-mute the call. Please note that TALKS cannot speak while a call
is muted, even if you open the cover.
While you are talking,
you can enter a phone number, for example when the caller tells you
another number that you want to call. After hanging up the call with
End, you can then call the new number by pressing Talk.
To repeat the last
dialled number, you can simply press Talk twice. But this only
works if you do not press this key again too quickly.
To delete the last
digit of a number you just entered, press the Clear key. To delete
the complete entry, hold this key down until you hear a second beep.
To increase or decrease
the volume of the ear-piece, while a call is active, use the Up
and Down key.
When you press and
hold the 1 key for about a second, the default voice mailbox
is called. You can also define eight other speed dial numbers, and associate
them with the remaining digits 2 to 9. You can always dial them by entering
the digit, and then pressing the Talk key, but to get your speed
dial key to react like the 1 key, you have to active speed dialling
by pressing Menu, and the digits 3, 1, 3,
and 1. If you type the 2 key instead of the last 1,
you turn off speed dialling again, so it will only work for the 1
key.
To avoid accidental
presses of keys on the phone interface, you can lock the phone keypad
by pressing Menu and the Star key to the left of 0.
With the same key sequence, you can unlock the keypad again.
The Communicator
Interface
When the cover is opened, the
Nokia Communicator reveals a small, high resolution colour display,
built into the inside of the lid, with four buttons located beside its
right edge, and a QWERTY keyboard built into the bottom part.
TALKS lets the Communicator
interface talk to you, tells you what is happening on the screen, what
keys you have pressed, and other information. Once you know the layout
of the Communicator keyboard, you can always use the TALKS learning
mode to find out the keys for a specific command or character.
The QWERTY
Keyboard
To distinguish the keys on
the Communicator keyboard from keys of the phone interface, we surround
them with square brackets […].
The top row of the keyboard
contains the application keys. With these keys, you can select an application
or a group of applications. The following keys are available:
Key
Description
[Desk]
Opens the Desk window. You
can place links to frequently used documents onto the desk, and you
can also enter notes.
[Tel]
With the Telephone application,
you can call phone numbers from your contact list or from the SIM card,
execute some advanced functions during a call, access the profile or
network settings, etc.
[Messaging]
From within the Messaging
window, you can send SMS (text messages), e-mail, and faxes.
[Internet]
This key opens the Internet
window, from which you can access the WWW and WAP browser. Please note
that TALKS does not support these applications at this time.
[Contacts]
The Contacts application displays
the contacts directory (your personal phone book), and allows you to
enter new data, and to edit or delete existing entries. Here, you can
also assign a personal ring tone to any given contact.
[Calendar]
The Calendar application allows
you to track your appointments and tasks. It can also remind you about
them. Though this program is not yet fully supported by TALKS, it is
already quite useful.
[Office]
The Office application group
consists of the Word Processor, the Sheet program, the Presentation
Viewer, and the File Manager. TALKS supports the File Manager and the
Word Processor, and can read cells of a spreadsheet.
[Extras]
This key opens the Extras
window, containing a number of useful applications, like the Control
Panel, the Calculator, the Clock, etc.
Please note that you can press
the keys assigned to an application group ([Desk], [Internet], [Office],
and [Extras]) while holding down the [Ctrl] key, to open the preferred
application of that group. The preferred application is assigned through
the menu of its group.
The row below the application
keys starts with [Esc] (Escape), followed by the digits [1], [2], …,
[0], and ending with [Back] (Backspace). When pressed together with
[Shift] or [Chr], the digit keys can produce different characters (see
the table in the next section).
The third row starts with [Tab]
(Tabulator), followed by the letters [q], [w], …, [p], and ends with
the [Enter] key that is also taking up this place in the fourth row.
The fourth row starts with
[Caps] (Caps Lock). This key toggles capitalisation of all the following
letters until it is pressed again. The letters that follow are [a],
[s], …, [l], then we have [:] and [Enter] again.
The next row is the last before
the bottom row. It starts with [Shift], which is special because you
do not have to press it together with another key to enter a “shifted”
key combination. Instead, you can press and release [Shift], and then
press the other key – good for typing with only one hand. The keys
that follow are [z], [x], …, [m], [,] (Comma), [.] (Dot). Finally,
there is the cursor plate in the right bottom corner of the keyboard.
To press one of the cursor keys [Up], [Down], [Left], and [Right], you
just have to push down this plate toward the appropriate direction.
Since it is easy to accidentally press in two directions simultaneously,
TALKS takes care of preventing this, by only letting you press the cursor
key in one direction at one time.
The bottom row consists of
the following keys: [Ctrl] (Control), [Chr] (Char), [Help], [/] (Slash),
[+] (Plus), [Space], and [Menu].
The menu key is a special key
when using TALKS. When pressed once, you can type another key to execute
a TALKS command, for instance, [Esc] to toggle the keyboard learning
mode on and off. Pressing the menu key twice opens the menu, just as
a single press would do without TALKS. To distinguish between the usage
of this key for starting a TALKS command, and as the [Menu] key, we
call it [TALKS], when pressed once, and [Menu], when pressed twice.
Key Combinations
The following table lists the
different meaning of keys, when pressed together with [Shift] and [Chr].
There are many shortcuts with [Ctrl] as well, but they are too many
to list them all at this place. When cursoring around the menus, such
shortcut key combinations are announced, so you can learn them one by
one.
Base
Key
With [Shift]
With [Chr]
1
! (Exclamation Mark)
_ (Underscore)
2
" (Quotes)
3
€ (Euro Symbol)
4
£ (Pound Symbol)
$ (Dollar Symbol)
5
& (Ampersand)
% (Percent)
6
# (Number Sign)
~ (Tilde)
7
* (Asterisk)
8
{ (Left Brace)
[ (Left Square Bracket)
9
} (Right Brace)
] (Right Bracket)
0
? (Question Mark)
= (Equals)
: (Colon)
; (semicolon)
Infrared on/off
, (Comma)
@ (AT sign)
. (Dot)
' (Apostrophy)
\ (Backslash)
[Help]
< (Less than)
Zoom out
/ (Slash)
> (Greater than)
Zoom in
+ (Plus)
- (Dash)
Soft Keys
The four soft keys are located
to the right of the Communicator screen. We refer to them as [Key 1],
[Key2], [Key3], and [Key4], starting from the topmost button. The function
of these keys is dependent upon what is currently shown on the screen.
TALKS reads the description of these keys, so you know what they do.
Generally, [Key1] is used to
confirm a warning message. It is also typically used to open a list
of options for a currently selected setting, or to open an application
or another window.
[Key4] is often used to close
a window or a dialog box. This should not be confused with a cancellation,
since pressing this key means that changes in a dialog box will be saved,
not abandoned.
[Key2] is often used to open
a new object, like a new note on the desktop, or a new contact card
in the contacts application. [Key3] is often used to delete the currently
open message, or a selected file.
As long as you are not familiar
with an application, please make sure to listen to the functions assigned
to the four soft keys. When a soft key is pressed, TALKS also announces
its function, if any, otherwise it announces the key name. This helps
you to know if you have accidentally pressed the wrong key.
Getting
started
TALKS is designed in such a
way that you do not have to know it to use it. The following sections
help you to get a grip on the applications most of our users are interested
in: You will learn how to enter a contact into the phonebook, and how
to use this entry to place a call and to send a text message (SMS).
Then we will set the ring tone, and have a look at using network services,
like call diverting.
For simplicity, we assume that
TALKS is already loaded, and that your Communicator has gone through
its initial configuration at its first usage.
Adding a
New Contact
To enter a contact, bring the
Contacts application into the foreground, by pressing [Contacts].
TALKS announces the window title (“Contacts Directory”), followed
by the word “Window”, then it reads the currently selected entry,
followed by the word “Text”, and the soft key assignments. If no
data has been entered into the Contacts Directory, the selected entry
is “SIM Card”, which allows you to access the entries on your SIM
card. If you want to listen to all this again, you can simply close
and open the cover of your Communicator.
To insert a new entry into
the Contacts Directory, press [Key2] (New Card). A new window
appears, and “<Unnamed Card>” is its window title, because
no first or last name has been entered at this point.
TALKS says “Last Name: Text”
for the currently selected item, and the soft keys allow you to add
or delete a field of this contact card. For now, just enter the last
name of a person you would like to add to your Contact Directory. Then
press [Down] to move to the next field, named “First Name”.
Once you have entered a last
name, you will notice that TALKS reads the current window again, this
time with the last name as its window title. Now enter a first name,
then press [Down] a number of times, until you reach the “Tel”
field. Of course you can also enter appropriate data into the other
fields, or delete them if you want them to disappear.
When entering a telephone number,
we suggest that you use international notation, i.e. start the number
with a plus (+), followed by the country code, the area code, and the
remaining part of the phone number. Such a number can look like +44-555-5551234,
where “44” is the country code, “555” is the area code, and
“5551234” is the actual phone number. Entering a phone number this
way ensures that you can use it from anywhere, even from another country.
The next field is “Tel (GSM)”,
where you can enter a mobile phone number. To be able to send a text
message (SMS) to a phone number, it must be entered here, while entries
in the previous “Tel” field can only be used for voice calls. You
should enter the number as explained above.
Now you can fill in the remaining
fields if you like. When you are done, just press [Key4] (Done).
This brings back the Contacts Directory window, with the new name added
to the list.
Placing
a Voice Call
Now we can use the contact
information entered in the previous section, and use the Telephone application
to dial one of the associated phone numbers. To go to the Telephone
application’s window, press [Tel]. TALKS will read the Telephone
Directory window. If only one phone number is associated with the selected
entry, it will be read out; if more than one phone number is available,
you are told how many numbers there are.
To select a number, you can
use the cursor keys [Down] and [Up]. To narrow the selection,
you can enter a few letters. This only displays entries where the beginning
of one of its words matches the letters you have entered. To delete
the last letter, you can press [Back]. If a number you would
like to dial is not included in the Telephone Directory, you can also
enter its digits. When the window is read again, for instance, when
you close and open the cover, the word “Text” is followed by the
string you have entered.
After you have selected an
entry, you can press [Key1] (Call) to start the call. If more
than one phone number is available, a new window will open, and you
can select the number to dial, then press [Key1] (Call) again.
If you prefer to talk privately,
you can close the cover at any time, and use the ear-piece and microphone
on the rear of the phone interface. To end the call, you can press
[Key4] (End Call) or the End button of the telephone interface.
Sending
a Short Message (SMS)
Text messaging has become a
very central part of today’s communication culture. Appointments and
meetings are arranged, network administrators get alerts from their
network servers, an e-mail server informs about incoming mail, you can
get the currently played song title from a radio station, receive a
weather report or the joke of the day… all via text message services
(SMS). With TALKS, you are no longer left out. And now, you are going
to send a text message to the contact you have entered, or to anyone
else.
Press the [Messaging]
key, and the Messaging window appears. You normally start on one of
the default entries, like “Inbox”. There, you can press [Key3]
(Write Short Message) to start the text message editor. If an e-mail
account is selected, the soft key assignment changes, and you have to
press [Key2] (Write Message), and select the type of message,
in our case “Short Message”, then press [Key1] (OK) to start
the text message editor.
Now you can enter a destination
phone number to send the short message to. To choose an entry from the
Contacts Directory, press [Key2] (Recipient). The Contacts
Directory window appears, and you can select one or more recipients
by pressing [Key1] (Select). To view the list of recipients,
press [Tab] to switch focus to the second frame of this window.
Now you can cursor through the list of recipients. You can even remove
one recipient by pressing [Key3] (Remove). Press [Tab]
again to select more entries. When you are done, press [Key4]
(Done), to return to the short message editor. Now, press [Tab]
to switch the focus to the text frame where you can enter your message
text. Type your message, and then press [Key1] (Send), and your
first SMS is sent out. If the text is longer than 160 characters, it
must be sent in multiple parts, and you are asked to confirm that this
is what you want, by pressing [Key1] (Send) again.
Setting
Ring Tones
You can set a standard ring
tone for any profile. To do this, switch to the telephone application
by pressing [Tel], then press [Menu] (i.e. press the original
Menu key twice) to enter the menus for the Telephone Directory application.
A new window pops up, and TALKS
tells you it is a menu. Press [Right], until the Settings menu
appears. If “Profiles…” is not the selected item in this menu,
cursor up and down to find it, then press [Key1] (Select). A
list of pre-defined profiles appears, and you have the ability to change
them, or you can add a new profile. “General” is the default profile,
so let’s start by changing the ring tone associated with this profile.
When “General” is the selected item, press [Key1] (Edit).
A new window called “Settings”
appears, and it contains a dialog that consists of multiple tab sheets.
You use the cursor keys [Up] and [Down] to select an option
on the current tab sheet. When “Tab Sheet” is announced as the type
of the current control, you can use [Left] and [Right]
to select one of the various tab sheets, then use [Up] and
[Down] again to select the associated options.
There also is a fast way to
get to the title for the current tab sheet, by simply pressing [Menu].
The tab sheet we are interested
in is selected by default, its name is “General”. The first option
is the “Ringing Type”, which can be set to either of the following:
Normal: The
ring tone is played multiple times, with the selected volume.
Ascending:
The ring tone is played multiple times, starting with a low but rising
volume.
Ring Once:
The ring tone is only played once, with the selected volume.
When “Normal” or “Ascending”
are selected, the ring tone blocks the sound output whenever you have
an incoming call, and TALKS cannot announce the caller’s ID. The only
way to identify a caller in this case is to assign a special ring tone
for any caller you want to be able to identify. When “Ring Once”
is chosen, you can open the cover and use TALKS to get the callers ID,
after the tone is off.
You can choose such settings
in two ways:
You can press
[Key1] (Change), then select from the list that appears and press
[Key1] (OK), or
You can use [Left]
and [Right] to cycle through the available options.
The next option in this tab
sheet is the ring tone, with its associated volume. To play the currently
selected ring tone with the announced volume, you have to mute TALKS,
which can be done by using the key sequence [TALKS], followed
by [Back]. Then you can press [Key3] (Play) to start the
ring tone. Pressing [Key3] (Stop) again will stop playing the
ring tone. The key sequence [TALKS], [Back] will turn speech
output back on again.
To select a new ring tone,
you press [Key1] (Change). A list with the available standard
ring tones appears, and you can cursor up and down to select one, and
press [Key1] (Select) to confirm the selection. If you have received
new ring tones via SMS, via Infrared, or uploaded them from a PC, you
can press [Key2] (Browse) to select them. If you do not want
to assign any ring tone, you can press [Key3] (Sound Off).
[Key4] cancels this selection, without changing the ring tone.
To select the volume for the
actual ring tone, press [Key2] (Volume) first. A slider appears
where you can select the volume in percentage of the maximum volume,
by using [Key2] (Plus) and [Key3] (Minus/Dash). [Key1]
(OK) accepts the currently selected value, [Key4] (Cancel) exits
this setting, and returns to the Settings window without changing the
volume.
The next option in the “General”
tab sheet is “Personal Tones”, and this must be set On, if you would
like to use a special ring tones for an entry in the Telephone Directory.
You should also scan through
the other tab sheets of the Settings window. Use [Help] to get
help for the currently selected tab sheet. Pressing [Key4] (Close)
closes the help window and returns to the current tab sheet.
To exit the Settings window
and save the new settings, press [Key4] (Done). The Profiles
window is shown, so you can select another profile to edit, create a
new one, or press [Key4] (Close) to return to the Telephone Directory.
Network
Services
The Settings menu in the Telephone
Directory applications also contains the entry “Network Service”.
Select this entry and press [Key1] (Select). A sub-menu appears,
offering the following selections:
Call Diverting:
This option allows you to forward your calls to your voice mailbox,
or to another phone number, with four types of diversion: “Divert
all calls”, “Divert if busy”, “Divert if out of reach”, and
“Divert if not answered”.
Call Barring:
This allows you to prevent certain types of calls to be made or received.
Not all networks support all settings possible in this dialog.
Other Services:
This dialog contains remaining network services, like enabling or disabling
call waiting, Caller ID sending, or manual network selection.
For now, choose “Call Diverting”,
and press [Key1] (Select). The Voice Call Diverting window appears,
and you can select from the following options:
Divert all calls:
When all calls are diverted, any call to your mobile phone number is
forwarded to the selected destination, and you will not be able to take
any call, until this setting is turned off again.
Divert if busy:
When this option is turned on, an incoming call will be forwarded to
the selected destination if you are busy with another call, and call
waiting as not been activated.
Divert if out
of reach: When your phone has been turned off, or is not in an area
with network coverage, calls are forwarded to the selected destination,
if this setting has been turned on.
Divert if not
answered: When this option is turned on, and you do not answer an
incoming call, it will be diverted to the selected destination. The
next setting allows to specify the time delay before the call is forwarded.
Divert if not
available: This allows you to turn on or off the last three of the
above settings at once, without having to set them individually.
For all of these options, except
for the last one, you can check the current status by pressing [Key2]
(Check Status).
To change a setting, select
the appropriate entry, then press [Key1] (Change), then select
the new status. If you use the last option, you can enter any phone
number to which you would like to forward a call. Press [Key1]
(OK) to accept the change, or [Key4] to exit this dialog without
any change.
To cancel all voice call diverts,
press [Key3] (Cancel All) in the Voice Call Diverting window.
Close this window by pressing [Key4] (Done).
Using Help
To call up context-sensitive
help, you can press [Help] at any time. You can also open Help
from the Extras window. To do this, press [Extras], then select
“Help”, and then press [Key1] (Open). This opens the Help
Topics window.
When the Help Topics window
is displayed, you can select the book you would like to look at. When
a book is closed, you can use [Key1] (Expand) or [Right]
to open it. Any documents contained in a book are only visible when
it is opened. When you are in a list of documents, you can press
[Left] to get back to the book title, and then press [Left]
or [Key1] (Collapse) to close the book.
When a document is selected,
you can press [Key1] (Select) to open it. TALKS will automatically
start to read the text to you. Pressing [Key1] (Contents) again
gets you back to the Help Topics window.
When pressing [Key2]
(Index), the help index is displayed, and you can cursor up and down
the index to select an entry, then press [Key1] (Select)
to open the related document. The index is useful if you have no idea
what the topic you are looking for is called, but it is a very long
list. [Key2] (Contents) gets you back to the Help Topics window.
Pressing [Key3] (Search)
opens the keyword search dialog. Here you can enter the keyword(s) you
are looking for, and then press [Key1] (Search) again to get
a list of matching keywords. Select one entry of this list, and press
[Key1] (Select). To get back to the Help Topics window, press
[Key2] (Contents).
To close the Help application,
press [Key4] (Close).
Using TALKS
TALKS
Function Key Summary
The following table lists
all key sequences that are assigned to TALKS functions. All such key
sequences begin by pressing [TALKS], which is the Menu
key to the right of [Space].
Keys
Description
[TALKS],
[Esc]
Toggle keyboard training mode
on and off
[TALKS],
[Space]
Repeat the last phrase
[TALKS],
[Enter]
Read the current window, same
as after a focus change, or when the Communicator has been opened
[TALKS],
[Key1]
Open TALKS-specific help
[TALKS],
[Key2]
Read soft key assignments
[TALKS],
[Key3]
Read time and date
[TALKS],
[Key4]
Read battery state, network
state, and other status indicators
[TALKS],
[1]
Change key echo
[TALKS],
[2]
Toggle speaking of upper case
letters
[TALKS],
[3]
Toggle usage of a spelling
alphabet
[TALKS],
[4]
Change level of punctuation
reading
[TALKS],
[5]
Decrease speech volume
[TALKS],
[6]
Increase speech volume
[TALKS],
[7]
Decrease speech rate
[TALKS],
[8]
Increase speech rate
[TALKS],
[Up]
Read selected object or current
line of text
[TALKS],
[Left]
Read character under the cursor
[TALKS],
[Right]
Read word under the cursor
[TALKS],
[Down]
Read text starting from the
cursor position.
[TALKS],
[Ctrl-Up]
Spell selected object or current
text line
[TALKS],
[Ctrl-Right]
Spell current word
[TALKS],
[T]
Open the TALKS Settings dialog
[TALKS],
[Shift-Down]
Read selected text
[TALKS],
[G]
Toggles graphics mode on and
off
[TALKS],
[Back]
Toggle speech off or on. This
is useful for playing ring tones, and for the Recorder application.
[Ctrl]
Stop current speech output
[TALKS],
[TALKS]
[Menu]
TALKS
Function Key Details
Keyboard
Training Mode
You can toggle keyboard training
mode on and off with [TALKS], [Esc]. When it is turned on, keys and
TALKS functions are just announced, but no function is performed. The
only exceptions are [Help], which is announced and starts the Help application,
even in training mode, and the Infrared key that switches on
the infrared mode, but isn’t announced. The Infrared connection
is activated by pressing [CHR]+[:] (CHR and Colon) at the same time.
Repeat Last
Phrase
Sometimes, you may not have
understood all parts of the previous speech output. There also exists
a known issue in the software of the Nokia Communicator that sometimes
causes a cut-off at the beginning of a phrase. For such cases, you can
simply press [TALKS], [Space] to repeat the most recently spoken
text.
Read the
Current Window
When pressing [TALKS], [Enter],
the current window is read, as if a focus change has occurred, or the
cover of the Communicator interface has just been opened. The only difference
is that a text field is not read out completely, only the currently
selected line is read.
Opening
TALKS-Specific Help
By pressing the key sequence
[TALKS], [Key1], you can call up the Help window, with the TALKS-specific
information about the application currently shown on the screen.
Read Soft
Keys
Whenever the current window
is read, the functions assigned to the four soft keys at the right side
of the screen are announced as well. Pressing [TALKS], [Key2]
repeats this announcement.
Speak Time
and Date
By pressing [TALKS], [Key3],
TALKS offers a quick way to get the current time and date.
Read Status
Indicators
Status indicators, like the
battery or network status, unread or unsent messages etc., are displayed
at the left edge of the Communicator screen. They do not belong to any
particular window, so they can only be read by pressing [TALKS],
[Key4].
Setting
Key Echo
With [TALKS], [1], you
can cycle through the four key echo modes: None, letters, words, and
both. When “letters” is selected, only the keys you press are announced
while typing. When “words” is selected, the recent word is announced,
after a punctuation character or [Space] has been pressed. When
“both” is selected, letters and words are read while typing in text.
Speak Upper
Case
With [TALKS], [2], you
can toggle the announcement of upper-case letters on and off. When turned
on, capital letters and words starting with a capital are preceded by
“Caps”, and upper-case words are preceded by “Caps Caps”, in
key echo, or when moving the cursor on them.
Use Spelling
Alphabet
This option can be toggled
on and off by pressing [TALKS], [3]. When on, all spelling is
done using a spelling alphabet instead of the letters, like “Alpha
Bravo Charlie” instead of “abc”.
Speak Punctuation
With [TALKS], [4], you
can change the level of punctuation and other non-alphanumeric characters
that is announced when reading a text with the TALKS reading commands,
or by cursoring up and down. Four levels are supported:
None: No
punctuation characters are read, but the following list of characters
is announced:
# $ % & * + < = > @ \ ^ ` { | } ~
All non-alphanumeric characters with codes greater than 127 are spoken
as well.
Some: In
addition to the characters above, the following characters are read:
! / ? _ Non-breakinghyphen
Most: Additionally,
the following characters are announced:
" ( ) : [ ]
All: All
punctuation and other non-alphanumeric characters are spoken.
In addition, punctuation
characters are always spoken if they appear outside of a sentence or
in unusual combinations.
Setting
the Volume
With [TALKS], [5] (Decrease
volume) and [TALKS], [6] (Increase volume), you can set a volume
from 1 to 9. When the new setting is announced, you can immediately
hear the speech with the new volume.
Setting
the Speech Rate
With [TALKS], [7] (Decrease
speech rate) and [TALKS], [8] (Increase speech rate), you can
set the speech rate from –9 (extremely slow) to +9 (extremely fast).
Read Current
Line or Selected Object
The key sequence [TALKS],
[Up] reads the current line of text, when inside a text field. Otherwise
it reads the selected object, for example, an entry in the Contacts
Database, a menu item, etc.
Read the
Current Letter
If the cursor is on a letter
inside a text field, [TALKS], [Left] reads this letter.
Read Current
Word
If the cursor is placed on
or immediately to the right of a word inside a text field, [TALKS],
[Right] reads this word.
Read Text
from Cursor
When the cursor is inside a
text field, [TALKS], [Down] reads all text starting at the actual
cursor location. Speech output can be stopped with [Ctrl], and
then continued by another press of [TALKS], [Down]. After the
cursor has moved, this command will start to read from the new cursor
position.
Spell Current
Line or Selected Object
The key sequence [TALKS],
[Ctrl-Up] spells the current line of text when inside a text field.
Otherwise it spells the selected object, for example, an entry in the
Contacts Database, a menu item, etc.
Spell the
Current Word
If the cursor is placed on
or immediately to the right of a word inside a text field, [TALKS],
[Ctrl-Right] spells this word.
Read Current
Selection
If a block of text is selected
in a text field, [TALKS], [Shift-Down] reads the selected text.
Toggle
Graphics Mode
The key sequence [TALKS],
[G] toggles graphics mode on and off. When graphics mode is on,
unlabeled graphics are announced as “Icon”, followed by the hexadecimal
code assigned to that symbol. When graphics mode is off, only labelled
graphics and graphical symbols in a text field are read. A change of
the graphics mode takes effect after a read-out of the current window,
for instance, when pressing [TALKS], [Enter]. Graphics mode only
applies to the current application.
Open the
TALKS Settings Dialog
You can open the TALKS Settings
dialog by using its link in the Control Panel, or by simply pressing
[TALKS], [T]. This dialog acts like a standard dialog, for instance
the Profiles Settings. Besides allowing you to specify the speech parameters
that you can also change by using TALKS commands, it offers the following
important options:
You can enter a
serial number to turn a demo version of TALKS into a fully working application.
Without a valid serial number, TALKS works for 10 minutes only, then
you have to restart the Communicator interface to get another 10 minutes
of operation. The serial number is based upon the IMEI number of your
phone, which is also displayed in this dialog.
Note: You should make note of the serial number found here, because
you will need it again if you ever have to re-install TALKS onto your
Communicator after the phone’s memory has been cleared.
You can adjust the
pitch of the Eloquence speech inside the Speech tab sheet.
Please note that changes in
this dialog, including the speech parameters, become effective after
closing the dialog with [Key4] (Done).
Stopping
the Current Phrase
To stop the current phrase,
without causing any other action, simply press [Ctrl].
Press [Menu]
Since the standard Menu
key of the Communicator keyboard is used as the [TALKS] key,
you have to press this key twice to simulate a press of [Menu]
without TALKS.
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