Changing the Port
When you enter the Speech configuration menu, the first setting
you can change is the Port. Whichever port is active, anything
coming into it from a computer or a notetaker is spoken by the
Blazer's built-in speech synthesizer when the Blazer is in
printing mode.
So for example, suppose the parallel port is active from within
the Speech Configuration menu. If you send a document from
your computer to the Blazer's parallel port for Brailling, the
Blazer will speak the contents of the document. Whether it also
Brailles the document depends on whether the parallel port is
active from within the Printer Configuration menu.
Since the factory default has the Blazer's serial port active from
within the Speech Configuration menu, if you send a document
from your computer to the Blazer's parallel port, the Blazer
should not speak the contents of the document.
When you enter the Speech configuration menu, the Blazer
says, "Port, serial."
To change this setting, cycle through its options by pressing
Enter. The options are: "Off", Parallel", and "Serial.” "Off" turns
off Both the serial and parallel ports. "Parallel" activates the
parallel port. And of course, "Serial" reactivates the serial port.
Your choice is automatically selected once you move to another
setting within this menu, move to another menu, or exit menu
mode altogether.
Changing How Numbers are Spoken
Enter the Speech configuration menu. Press Skip once to move
to the "Numbers" setting. The Blazer should say, "Numbers, full
numbers", which is the default. This means that the Blazer will
say 2000 as "two thousand."
Since the only two options for this setting are "Full numbers"
and "Digits", you can toggle between them by pressing Enter.
22
440102-001 Rev. A