Using BraillePen12 with Talks
Setting Talks up to connect
First turn Talks off, and then set Bluetooth on your phone to On. Make sure your phone is in
discoverable mode.
Now turn your BraillePen12 on, and wait to hear the triple-beep that tells you Bluetooth is
active. Pair your phone with BraillePen12 using the passcode 1234.
If your phone asks: "Authorise device to make connections automatically?" answer yes.
Once the two devices are paired, install the BP12 Braille driver on your phone. We
recommend that you install the driver on your phone's memory card.
Now restart Talks. Check on the Braille tab that "Braille" is set to "BP12 Driver" and "Keep
Braille on" is set to "Yes".
Your phone's output will now show on the BraillePen12.
The main keystrokes you will need are:
Soft key left
Space and shift
Soft key right
Space and Control
Star key
Dots 3 4
Hash or Pound key
Dots 3 4 5 6
BackSpace
Space and dot 6
Call
Control and dot 5
End call
Control and dot 4
Menu
Space and dots 1 3 4
Repeat the last phrase
Space, Control and dots 3 4 5 6
Read the names of the soft keys
Shift and Control
Give battery and network status information
Space and dots 2 4 5 6
Switch between key echo modes
Space, Control and dot 1
Uppercase letter announcement on or off
Space, Control and dots 1 2
Turn the NATO spelling alphabet on or off
Space, Control and dots 1 4
Switch between punctuation modes
Space, Control and dots 1 4 5
Volume down
Space, Control and dots 1 5
Volume up
Space, Control and dots 1 2 4
Slower speech
Space, Control and dots 1 2 4 5
Faster speech
Space, Control and dots 1 2 5
Speak time and date
Space, Control and dots 2 4
Open TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog
Space, Control and dots 3 5
Turn speech off or on
Space, Control and dot 6
If you are using the BraillePen12 to input numbers into your Contacts, text into your Notes or
other inputs such as appointments and to-do reminders, type in Grade Zero Braille, since the
Talks driver does no translation. You will have spoken feedback to assist with this; it can be
confusing on first use, since the Grade Zero Braille numbers are the lower letters with no
number sign, and punctuation in this mode is often different from the normal Braille
characters.
There is a section in the Care and Resources appendix showing the full Computer Braille /
Braille ASCII table.
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