Palmtop3 User’s Guide
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Section 2: Introduction to Palmtop 3
2.1. About Palmtop
Your Palmtop system is one of the smallest and lightest augmentative communication devices available. The
system allows you to produce messages that can be spoken through the DECtalk™ or Acapela™ software
speech synthesizer and/or saved to a text file for later use. The Palmtop software provides a variety of
features including word prediction, scanning input, touchscreen selection, abbreviation expansion, Morse
code, and automatic spacing and capitalization to name a few. A configuration file is loaded to instruct the
Palmtop device how to look and function. Just choose a configuration that suits your needs. For clinicians,
this means you only have to learn one software system and you can meet the needs of many clients by
selecting different configurations. Complete descriptions of the standard configurations are provided in
section 7.
2.2. About the Software
The Palmtop window is divided into three regions (see Figure 6). At the bottom of the screen, there is a
Menu Bar on the left and a Toolbar to the right. These controls are used to configure the software and to tell
you what features are activated. At the top of the screen is the Editor Window. This is the area where text will
appear as you type it. Below the Editor Window is the Interface Window. This is where onscreen keyboards,
symbol screens, scanning arrays, and other configuration-specific graphics will appear. By loading new
configurations into the application, you can completely change the appearance and functionality of the
Interface Window. The menus, toolbar buttons, and Editor Window appear the same, regardless of the
current configuration.
Figure 6: Palmtop (with a configuration loaded)
Interface
Window
Editor
Window
Menu Bar
Toolbar
Keyboard
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