User guide

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TextAssist
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ives
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our computer the abilit
y
to s
y
nthesize human voices and read text aloud.
TextAssist has the followin
g
ke
y
features:
To open TextAssist Help or User’s Guide:
1. Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar, select Pro
g
rams, followed b
y
TextAssist.
2. Click on either of the followin
g
:
• TextAssist Help
• TextAssist
User’s Guide
, a PDF file that opens automaticall
y
in Acrobat Reader.
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VoiceAssist uses voice and ke
y
board commands to navi
g
ate the Windows environment and run
applications. For example,
y
ou can sa
y
“e-mail” to launch
y
our e-mail software, or press the L ke
y
to
insert a letterhead into a document. VoiceAssist automaticall
y
learns to reco
g
nize
y
our commands—
y
ou
can perform an almost limitless number of tasks with voice/ke
y
board commands.
VoiceAssist runs in the back
g
round, monitorin
g
y
our input. Whenever
y
ou open a pro
g
ram or window,
VoiceAssist automaticall
y
extracts the available menu commands. When
y
ou open
y
our Web browser,
for example, VoiceAssist loads all commands available for that pro
g
ram. You can then execute a
command b
y
sa
y
in
g
its name into the microphone, t
y
pin
g
its name into the ke
y
board input box, or
double-clickin
g
the command in the Commands window.
You do not have to train VoiceAssist to reco
g
nize
y
our commands. However,
y
ou ma
y
retrain the
pro
g
ram to reco
g
nize a different input and to execute a series of actions executed b
y
a sin
g
le command.
Feature Allows You To
S
y
nthesized s
p
eech out
p
ut Have
y
our com
p
uter read text aloud.
Multi
p
le lan
g
ua
g
es Use different lan
g
ua
g
es.
Predefined/user-defined voices Choose between the
p
redefined voices, chan
g
e the voices, or create voices.
S
p
ecial text filters Define the readin
g
manner of the
p
ro
g
ram, whether it should read si
g
ns,
embedded or
q
uoted texts, or the header of e-mail messa
g
es.
Ad
j
ustable readin
g
st
y
les Define the readin
g
st
y
le of the
p
ro
g
ram—
p
ause after ever
y
word, read
p
unctuation marks and math s
y
mbols, etc.
Exce
p
tion dictionaries Define s
p
ecial
p
ronunciation for exce
p
tional words, such as abbreviations
A
pp
lication-s
p
ecific settin
g
s Set different
p
arameters for each a
pp
lication.
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