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BrailleNote Apex QT User Guide
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3.8.3 Review Voice.
The Review Voice settings determine when KeySoft speaks and how much detail KeySoft includes
when reading. When you hold down the PREVIOUS thumb key, press SPACE and release both
keys, KeySoft displays the current Review Voice. The options are; Speech On, Speech On Request,
and Speech Off.
The Review Voice settings can also be accessed by pressing FUNCTION with O then R, anywhere
in KeySoft. KeySoft might prompt: "Speech? Currently on."
The options are as follows:
To have speech and sounds on, press N for ON.
To have speech on Request, press R.
To turn off speech and all sounds except alarms, press F for OFF.
When the Speech on Request option is selected, KeySoft only speaks when you use a command that
is a specific speech command. For example, in KeyWord, the word processor, when you move
forward word by word using READ with L, nothing is spoken.
However if you use the dedicated "Speak Word under Cursor" command, READ with K, the word
under the cursor is spoken.
After selecting the speech setting above, or pressing ENTER to leave the current level unchanged,
KeySoft displays: "Volume Level?" To change the speech volume level, type a number between 1
and 5 press ENTER, 1 is the lowest and 5 is the loudest. To leave the volume setting unchanged,
press ENTER.
KeySoft displays "Punctuation level? (number)."
where the word "number" shown in brackets is really an actual number from 1 to 5. At level 1, no
punctuation is announced. At level 5, all characters are spelt out, along with all punctuation. The
default setting is 2. The intermediate levels are described in 5.5.3 Punctuation level. This setting
applies whenever you are editing or reviewing documents or text.
To leave the setting unchanged, press ENTER. To select a particular punctuation level, press a
number from 1 to 5, then press ENTER.
KeySoft then prompts: "Number Format? (Words)."
where the word shown in brackets is really the currently selected option either "Words" or
"Digits." The options are W, for numbers spoken as words, or D, for numbers spoken digit by digit.
If you select the word format, the number 1942 is spoken as “nineteen forty two,” since it is
assumed to be a date. The sequence $25.15 is spoken as “twenty five dollars and fifteen cents.”
If you select the digits option, the number 1942 is spoken digit by digit. The choice is a matter of
personal preference.