- UEB mode toggle
Use UEB braille Code (Unified English Braille). Unified English Braille Code (UEBC,
formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language
braille code standard developed to permit representing the
wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the
English-speaking world today in a uniform fashion.
Speech
Go to this menu to decide how your Mountbatten Brailler Tutor speaks while you type,
operate menus, or edit files. Tutor can speak in two ways: using recorded speech or
synthetic speech. You will find options to change it in this menu. While you use synthetic
speech, whatever you type can be read as letters, words, or complete sentences. This
feature is called "echo". In this menu, you will be able to set how Tutor echoes what you
type and what else it will read.
- Echo options
- Letter echo
Each character you are going to type in will be spoken. Works both for recorded
and synthetic speech. Default ON.
- Word echo
Each word you will type in will be spoken after entering a space, punctuation, or
new line after the word. Works for synthetic speech only.
Default ON.
- Line echo
Each line you will type in will be spoken after entering a new line character, or MB
Tutor will perform an automatic new line. Works for synthetic
speech only. Default ON.
- Sentence echo
After entering sentence punctuation (like a period, exclamation mark, question
mark, etc.), each sentence you will type in will be spoken.
Works for synthetic speech only. Default OFF.
- Synthetic speech
You need to set this on when you want to use natural-sounding synthetic speech
that reads letters and words and complete text. This feature is
ON by default but is available only after a minute from turning
your Mountbatten Brailler Tutor on - the synthetic speech
engine needs to start first.
- Recorded speech
This kind of speech is well suited to the menus and messages that Tutor expresses
but will not read words or sentences that you type. This kind of
speech works immediately after you start your Tutor. Before the
synthetic speech machine starts, it will speak even if it is off (for
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