•
Press
[TALKS], [2]
.
Or
•
In the
TALKS&ZOOMS Settings
dialog box, on the
Speech
tab, set
Speak upper case
to
Yes
or
No
.
4.2.5
Use spelling alphabet
You can set TALKS to spell with the NATO spelling alphabet instead of announcing just letters. For
example, to spell out
cat
with the spelling alphabet, TALKS would say “Charlie Alfa Tango” instead of
“C-A-T.”
To activate or deactivate the spelling alphabet:
•
Press
[TALKS], [3]
.
Or
•
In the
TALKS&ZOOMS Settings
dialog box, on the
Speech
tab, set
Use spelling alphabet
to
Yes
or
No
.
4.2.6
Speak punctuation
TALKS enables you to choose the extent to which it should read out punctuation marks and symbols. The
Speak punctuation
function has four options, as described in this section.
•
None
: TALKS does not read out any punctuation marks; it does read out the names of the
characters shown in Table 3.
Table 3
Character Name
# Number
sign
$ Dollar
symbol
% Percent
& Ampersand
* Asterisk
+ Plus
< Less
than
= Equals
> Greater
than
@ At
sign
\ Backslash
^ Caret
` Grave
accent
{
Open curly bracket
}
Close curly bracket
| Vertical
bar
~ Tilde
Note:
TALKS also announces all non-alphanumeric characters with ASCII codes greater than
127.
•
Some
: TALKS reads out the names of the characters in Table 3 and Table 4.
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