Or
•
In the
TALKS&ZOOMS Settings
dialog box, on the
Speech
tab, select
Speed
and then press
[Left]
to decrease the speed or
[Right]
to increase it.
4.2.9
Spelling speed
You can set the speed at which TALKS spells out words or a line of text. Choose a value from a range of
–9 (extremely slow) to +9 (extremely fast).
To change the spelling speed:
•
In the
TALKS&ZOOMS Settings
dialog box, on the
Speech
tab, select
Spelling Speed
and
then press
[Left]
to decrease the speed or
[Right]
to increase it.
4.2.10
Pitch
You can set the pitch for text-to-speed output. Choose a value from a range of –9 (low pitch) to +9
(higher pitch).
To change the pitch of speech output:
•
In the
TALKS&ZOOMS Settings
dialog box, on the
Speech
tab, select
Pitch
and then press
[Left]
to lower the pitch, or
[Right]
to raise it.
4.2.11
Cursor mode
You can determine how the cursor should move by pressing
[Left]
or
[Right]
in a read-only text field.
Three cursor modes are available:
•
Letters
:
[Left]
and
[Right]
move the cursor letter by letter. This is the default setting.
•
Words
:
[Left]
and
[Right]
move the cursor word by word.
•
Original
:
[Left]
and
[Right]
move the cursor letter by letter when you are entering text. When
you are reading incoming messages,
[Left]
and
[Right]
move from one message to the next.
These are the original functions of the
[Left]
and
[Right]
keys in the phone application.
To change the cursor mode:
•
Press
[TALKS], [Long 2]
repeatedly until you reach the option that you want. (To remember
this key sequence, note that the letter
C,
as in
cursor
, is associated with the number key
[2]
.)
Or
•
In the
TALKS&ZOOMS Settings
dialog box, on the
Advanced
tab, select
Cursor mode
, and
then select the desired option.
4.2.12
Graphics mode
When graphics mode is on, TALKS announces unlabeled graphics as “Icon” followed by the hexadecimal
code assigned to the symbol. When graphics mode is off, TALKS announces only labeled graphics and
graphical symbols in a text field. When you change this setting, TALKS immediately reads out the screen
in the new graphics mode.
To turn the graphics mode on or off:
•
Press
[TALKS], [Long 4]
. (To remember this key sequence, note that the letter
G
, as in
graphics
,
is associated with the number key
[4]
.)
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