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Copyright Inceptor Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 

 

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Introduction 

Braille Me is a sleek, portable and lightweight smart braille display. It is a competent 
device specially designed for Visually impaired students and professionals. 

With its revolutionary Braille cell technology, Braille Me is highly compact and cost-
effective. At Innovision, we understand the challenges faced daily by students and 
professionals, and keeping their recommendations in mind, we have built Braille Me.

 

Image of Braille Me in isometric view 

Braille Me is a compact smart braille display with the following capabilities: 

•    A line of 20 braille cells with pins that arrange into the required pattern to accurately 
represent any six-dot braille code, in any language. 

•    Capable of reading the contents of files on an SD card for Stand-Alone mode. 

•    Remote connectivity to PCs and mobile devices for use with a screen reader 

•    Simple editing functions 

It operates in 2 ways – Standalone reader mode and remote mode. 

Standalone reader mode:  

In this mode, Braille Me displays the content of files stored on an SD card. It does not do 
any translation or interpretation. You prepare the files ahead of time on your computer, 
then store them on SD card. For example, if you want to read in UEB, prepare the UEB 
transcribed title on your computer and then store it on the card. To facilitate this 
conversion, Innovision provides a simple software – Braille Me translator. 

Summary of Contents for Braille Me

Page 1: ...n 5 3 Powering the device 9 3 1 Powering On Off 9 3 2 Charging 9 4 Menu system 10 4 1 Panning Keys 10 4 2 Edit box 11 4 3 Cursor 11 4 3 1 Mode 1 11 4 3 2 Mode 2 11 4 4 Word wrap 12 5 File manager 12 5 1 Browse 12 5 1 1 Supported Files 12 5 2 Search 12 5 3 Open Rename and Delete 13 5 4 New File 13 5 5 Editor 14 5 6 Preparing files for Braille Me 16 6 Bluetooth 17 6 1 Pair new device 17 6 2 Connecti...

Page 2: ...e 22 8 4 Braille Test 22 8 5 Software version 22 8 6 Auto scroll time 22 9 Battery level 22 10 System Shutdown 23 11 List of all commands 23 11 1 Global commands for Braille Me 23 11 2 Braille Back commands 24 11 3 NVDA commands 25 12 List of system notifications and errors 27 13 Firmware upgrade 29 14 Battery replacement 30 15 Specifications 31 16 Installing NVDA Add on and driver 32 17 FAQs 33 1...

Page 3: ...ille cells with pins that arrange into the required pattern to accurately represent any six dot braille code in any language Capable of reading the contents of files on an SD card for Stand Alone mode Remote connectivity to PCs and mobile devices for use with a screen reader Simple editing functions It operates in 2 ways Standalone reader mode and remote mode Standalone reader mode In this mode Br...

Page 4: ...ike this Dots 1 5 When modifier keys are used the documentation separates the modifiers from the rest of the keys with a plus sign like this Space Dot 1 Recall that modifiers like the Shift key on a regular QWERTY keyboard are keys you hold down while pressing another key This modifies the effect of the pressed key When any key combination is pressed note that the command is executed only when all...

Page 5: ...ation Orientation to the positioning of buttons keys cells and slots is essential for understanding how the device operates and how you input and receive information on the device To begin exploration of Braille Me place the device on a flat surface in front of you with the row of braille cells farther away from you and the sloping edge nearer to you This is the proper operational orientation Imag...

Page 6: ...lls farthest away from you The texture of the braille display area is smoother compared to the body and it will have many holes for braille pins It is accompanied by 20 cursor routing buttons below each cell On both the sides of the braille display we have a couple of keys used for navigation On the right side we have the panning keys named RightUp and RightDown and on the left side the next item ...

Page 7: ...ting an SD card When you receive the device it would already have a 4GB SD card inserted The SD card slot is a standard slot with spring feedback The SD card is inserted with the card connector fingers facing upward To release the card press in and remove your finger to allow the card to pop out Drawing of left face of Braille Me On the bottom of the device a battery compartment is present which i...

Page 8: ...Ports SD card slot Left face Micro USB slot Right face DC jack Right face Battery compartment Bottom face Buttons Dot 1 to 6 Six keys in the middle of the top face Dot 1 2 3 on the left side and Dot 4 5 6 on the right side Space Lower middle part of Top face Enter Lower right part of the top face Back Lower left part of the top face 20 Routing keys Placed below braille ...

Page 9: ... will boot and you would hear an audio notification a short beep Along with this beep the braille display will get activated and all dots will toggle up and down Post this toggling the braille display will show menu As soon as menu is displayed you can start your work This entire process should take less than four secs There are two ways of shutting down the device One way is to long press the pow...

Page 10: ...ative yet straightforward menu system is implemented which will help you explore all the functions and settings At a time only one menu item is displayed To use the device Braille Me has a set of universal commands which work throughout the menu system and in its different applications Action Universal command To go inside select a menu item Enter key To go 1 step back in the menu hierarchy Back k...

Page 11: ...e deleted In order to show the cursor on a six dot system we offer two different ways 4 3 1 Mode 1 In this mode the cursor is shown by blinking dots which are not part of the braille character For example on the braille display the text welcome braillist is displayed The cursor is positioned on b so the dots 1 and 2 will remain steady and in up position since they make up the letter b while the do...

Page 12: ...function allows you to scroll through all the files inside the SD card The submenu items under browse are open rename delete which are described in section 5 3 5 1 1 Supported Files Note files stored in the root folder of the SD card are only visible All other folders are hidden Braille Me has certain criteria for files they are as follows It supports mainly two formats BRF and TXT all other file ...

Page 13: ...ore than 40kB or encoding is not ASCII or file is corrupt Refer to section 5 1 1 for details on supported files Files with BRF format cannot be edited and will be shown as it is on the braille display Word wrapping typing and cursor routing functions are automatically turned off while reading BRF files You can still use the navigation commands and auto scroll feature to read quickly TXT files on t...

Page 14: ...n case of TXT files all editor commands and functions are active If you only want to read the document you can freeze the typing keys ensuring unwanted characters are not entered while reading By default typing will be on to toggle press space back enter While toggling Braille Me will show a message typing on off use the back key to go back to the file While typing a paragraph is shown by a specif...

Page 15: ...en the list comes up it will first show the sentence with the keyword just after your current position with its number To go to the previous sentence use the leftUp key which is for the previous item and leftDown to go to the next sentence Each sentence that appears in the list will have a total of 40 characters so you can use the pan keys to read it completely To go to any of the listed sentences...

Page 16: ... Forward conversion means converting a desktop readable TXT file to Braille Me readable TXT file If you want to read documents which are currently on your PC use this option to convert and transfer it to Braille Me The backward conversion option is used to convert documents that you have edited or created in braille Me into PC readable version Then we have a button to select the file to be convert...

Page 17: ...tem He selects the language and grade as Spanish with grade 1 in the data conversion table option He also selects the output path as the SD card directory He then selects the filename conversion table as UEB English since the name of the file is assignment which is in English He then chooses to convert to TXT option and clicks convert As soon as the convert button is clicked the software shows a d...

Page 18: ...s Bluetooth on Note until you do not receive a notification on Braille Me saying Paired to device name the pairing process is not complete if your smartphone is showing Braille Me under the paired list but Braille Me is not showing the message Paired to device name even after 5 10 sec then you need to remove Braille Me from the smartphone pair list and redo the pairing process To remove any device...

Page 19: ...BrailleBack does not support any other braille as input By default Android is set to display English Computer Braille Change the language in BrailleBack to display 6 dot braille follow the steps below Go to open the Home screen Navigate and select Apps Settings Accessibility BrailleBack Settings Navigate through this screen of items to Braille type and select Android generates a dialog screen whic...

Page 20: ...e BrailleBack or VoiceOver upon pressing back key on Braille Me the connection is not lost So whatever you see on the braille display like file manager file list the content of files etc will also be shown on the smartphone 7 USB Braille Me allows you to connect to your Mac computer or Windows computer over USB With Braille Me a standard micro USB cable has been provided Insert the small end of th...

Page 21: ...the computer This utility is present under the USB menu in Braille Me To activate connect the USB cable to the computer and enter this utility Within 10 15 secs Braille Me will show up on your computer as a mass storage device Meanwhile Braille Me will show a message connected as media device If the SD card is not inserted in Braille Me then it will give an error sd card not found 8 Configuration ...

Page 22: ...re version It shows the current version of the software in Braille Me You can check if you have the most updated version by comparing your current software number with that on the website This version number would also be required while contacting customer care 8 6 Auto scroll time Auto scroll is a feature which continuously refreshes the braille display after a specific time and keeps showing the...

Page 23: ...ystem Shutdown To shut down the device there are two modes of action One way is to long 3 secs press the power button and the second is the system shutdown option While using the power button to shutdown an audible indicator with double beep is given and in case of using the system shutdown option a single long beep is given After shutting down all pins will move down 11 List of all commands 11 1 ...

Page 24: ... toggle leftup rightup Display date toggle leftdown rightdown Display battery level toggle leftup leftdown rightup rightdown Cursor blink ON OFF rightup rightdown Cursor mode 2 toggle leftup leftdown 11 2 Braille Back commands Braille Back function Key Command home Space dot 3 enter back Space dot 1 2 3 4 5 6 go up one line leftup go down one line leftdown pan right rightdown pan left rightup rece...

Page 25: ...tup go down to line with different attributes Space rightdown previous paragraph Space dot 1 leftup next paragraph Space dot1 leftdown go to top left corner Space dot 2 3 enter go to bottom left corner Space dot 2 6 enter go up several lines Space leftup go down several lines Space leftdown page up Space dot3 page down Space dot6 delete Space enter 11 3 NVDA commands NVDA function Key Commands spa...

Page 26: ...t 3 enter Control home Space dot 1 3 enter Left Arrow Space rightup Control shift left Arrow Space dot 1 4 rightup Control left Arrow Space dot 1 rightup Shift alt left Arrow Space dot 2 4 rightup Alt left Arrow Space dot 2 rightup Right Arrow Space rightdown Control shift right Arrow Space dot 1 4 rightdown Control right Arrow Space dot 1 rightdown Shif t alt right Arrow Space dot 2 4 rightdown A...

Page 27: ...row Space dot 2 4 leftdown Alt down Arrow Space dot 2 leftdown Shift down Arrow Space dot 4 leftdown Caps Lock Back enter 12 List of system notifications and errors Message Description sd card full It appears while saving a file when there is insufficient space in the SD card file open error it appears if Braille Me fails to open a file connection lost While connected over Bluetooth It shows up if...

Page 28: ...oth if the selected device for connection does not respond then it shows this error not valid filename if the device failes to a create new file due to faulty input name e g all spaces file not supported If the file format is not ANSI ASCII file is empty if user tries to open an empty BRF file keyword not found if no match for the keyword is found during keyword search file size exceeds if edited ...

Page 29: ...charger If the charger is connected and the battery reaches 100 then this message is shown standby mode It means the device has gone into sleep mode since it is not operated for more than 5 minutes charger not supported This occurs either when the wrong charger is plugged or the charger provided has been damaged invalid time It occurs when the inserted hours figure exceeds 12 hours or minutes figu...

Page 30: ...ng data Click the Upgrade button to start upgrading file content to Braille Me s memory Click the Verify button to verify if the data was Successfully uploaded Snapshot of the DfuSe software 14 Battery replacement The battery provided is a li polymer battery which is a common type found in majority of electronic equipment The battery is connected to the mother board by a 2 pin connector To replace...

Page 31: ...nector Images of the 4 steps of battery replacement 15 Specifications Specification Braille Me Braille Display Six dot 20 Braille cells with cursor routing keys Keyboard Type 6 key Perkins style Ports Micro USB SD card slot DC jack Interface USB v2 0 Bluetooth smart v4 2 SD card upto 32GB Language Supports 50 languages Capacity to hold 5 languages per device Supported File Formats TXT BRF ...

Page 32: ...me should respond with the message waiting for connection If your Windows OS version is Windows 7 then you need to first install the Braille Me driver which is an executable file with the name BrailleMeUsbDriver 64bit exe If it is Windows 8 or 10 then you do not require to install the driver You can check whether the driver is properly installed by going to device manager and checking if Braille M...

Page 33: ...oes it make while typing and refreshing braille The sound generated while typing is pretty much similar to any computer keyboard Refreshing the braille itself hardly makes a soft noise and can easily be used in a classroom environment What are the features of the stand alone mode In this mode the device displays the content of files stored on an SD card You can access previously prepared files fro...

Page 34: ...th devices can be paired with Braille Me Braille Me supports a maximum of four paired devices at a time 17 2 First time user What is the proper orientation of the device Place the device on a flat surface in front of you with the row of braille cells farther away from you and the sloping edge nearer to you This is the proper operational orientation Why is the device 6 dot and not 8 dot How do you ...

Page 35: ...aille Me saying Paired to device name the pairing process is complete Where can I find the product demonstration videos To view the demo videos follow this URL link https www youtube com channel UCmkFbfTI7MKUS2PjjfX4ppg videos Where can I find Braille books online 1 Sugamya Pustakalaya https library daisyindia org NALP welcomeLink action 2 NLS https www loc gov nls 3 Bookshare Braille Central http...

Page 36: ...aille Me to accommodate the new device and try a different name for the former and latter situations respectively For other issues refer to the user manual or contact customer support My computer doesn t recognize Braille Me as mass media storage This may be due to the fact that the user hasn t followed the proper procedure to connect the device with the desktop As long as connected as a mass devi...

Page 37: ...tem becomes INNOVISION s property Parts provided by INNOVISION in fulfillment of its warranty obligation must be used in products for which warranty service is claimed EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS This Limited Warranty applies only to the hardware product manufactured by INNOVISION that can be identified by the INNOVISION trademark trade name or logo affixed to it INNOVISION electronic products are ...

Page 38: ... TO THE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT SERVICE AS DETERMINED BY INNOVISION IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION No INNOVISION reseller agent or employee is authorized to make any modification extension or addition to this warranty If any term is held to be illegal or unenforceable the legality or enforceability of the remaining terms shall not be affected or impaired EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THIS WARRANTY AND TO THE MAXIMU...

Page 39: ...E BEING SERVICED WILL BE LOST OR REFORMATTED IN THE COURSE OF WARRANTY SERVICE AND INNOVISION AND ITS AGENTS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF PROGRAMS DATA OR OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THE MEDIA OR ANY PART OF THE PRODUCT SERVICED Your product will be returned to you configured as originally purchased subject to applicable updates You will be responsible for reinstalling all o...

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