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STREAM User Guide
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5. Advanced Functions
5.1
Text Search
The Stream has a text search function for music and text files. You may also search DAISY or
NISO books found in the Talking Books bookshelf providing the book has text and the player is in
text-to-speech mode (key
9
). DAISY or NISO books that are recorded only cannot be searched
as they have no text. Using the multi-tap text entry method on the number keys as you would to
enter text on a telephone, you can type in your search item. If you have a multilingual Stream, the
typing keypad will offer the characters of the currently selected text-to-speech language. Press
and hold key
7
to switch from one text-to-speech language to the other.
Follow these steps to use the search function:
Open your music book, a text file from the Text bookshelf. Or, go to the Talking Books
bookshelf and open a text-only book (e.g. Bookshare) or that has both recorded audio
and text. If it has both recorded audio and text, make sure that you are in text-to-speech
playback mode by pressing key
9
.
Press the
Go To
key multiple times
until you hear, “Search”. The number pad is now set
for text entry.
Press the number keys
0
to
9
to type the text. For example, key
2
is used for letters a, b,
c, and 2. Key
3
has d, e, f, and 3. Key
6
has m, n, o, 6 and so on. The space character is
on key
0
. Punctuation and special characters are on keys
0
and
1
. To enter a letter, press
the number key associated to that letter the appropriate number of times. When entering
successive letters on the same key you need to pause until Stream announces the letter.
For example, to type the word, “cab”, you press key
2
three times, then pause until you
hear, “c”, then press it once, pause until you hear, “a”, then press it twice to type the last
letter, “b”. You do not need to pause to type successive letters that are on different keys.
For example, to enter the word, “mama”, you can press 6262 as quickly as you like.
You may press the
Sleep
key to enter the Key Describer mode. Then press other keys to
announce their function including announcing the characters for each number key. Press
the
Sleep
key again to exit the Key Describer and return to Text Entry mode.
To announce what you have typed, press the
Fast Forward
key.
To erase the last character typed, press the
Rewind
key.
When you finish typing, you can exit the text entry mode in 3 ways: Press
Cancel
to exit
without searching, or press
Confirm
or
Play
to start the search.
Cancel
will not affect any
previous search information.
If you pressed the
Confirm
key, the Stream will position itself at the location of the found
search item and announce the line. If you pressed the
Play
key, it will move to the found
search item and start playing. The search is case insensitive. The search will find partial
words in which case it will position at the start of the word containing the search text.
Accented characters are not matched to non-accented characters or vice versa. A search
always starts from the current position in a book.
If searching a large file, you may hear “Please Wait” while the search is in progress. If you press
the
Cancel
key while searching, the search function is stopped, the current position remains at
the original starting position.
5.1.1
Search Next or Previous
Upon finding the search item, Stream will add a Search item to the navigation levels of
keys
2
and
8
and select that level automatically. So, upon finding the first occurrence of
your text, you can simply press keys
4
or
6
to find the previous or next occurrence. The
previous or next Search function will remain on the
2
/
8
key rotation until you close the
book. You can press key
4
or
6
to search for the previous or next item while in play or
stop mode.
