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1. Line and Word Spacing ih Line Spacing a OK Word Spacing Apply lt lt Decrease Increase gt gt Cancel Word Spacing Word Spacing is a feature that allows you to increase or decrease the amount of space between each word To increase the space between words go to the Settings menu and select Spacing A dialog box will be displayed with two buttons for Word Spacing One button is for Decrease and one is for Increase To do either select the appropriate button The program will scroll through the document quickly and make the necessary changes If you like the change select OK If you do not like the change make another selection until you find the setting that you want and then press the OK button 40 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Insert Menu File This allows you to select a file to insert in your document Click on the View menu enter the File Name and press Open Look in E literature v e Ep E Files of type Text txt y Cancel Image To insert an image into your document position the cursor where you want the image to appear go to the Insert menu and select Image You will have two options 1 As Fixed Object or 2 At Caret Position Either option will pull up an Insert Image dialog box You may select from multiple image types As Fixed Object This inserts the image as an immovable object Any other adjustments you make to the document will n
2. Prediction Levels cr Grades 4 and below cr Grades 6 and below cu O ar 10 ti f a oo cm En im o Pu qn Mm dm En DJ gu or T Click to Search for a Word In the Library Table view you will also see a Usage column The Usage column is how often the word is used in the English language The larger the usage number the higher on the Prediction List it will appear You can add your own words and even abbreviations to the Prediction List For example the name of your organization may be quite large Traverse City Intermediate School District You can enter the shorthand of TCISD and every time you type those five letters 1t will be replaced with Traverse City Intermediate School District thereby saving you a significant amount of typing For more information see Adding Words to the Library section later in this manual 69 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Show Modified Words Only There is a check box called Show Modified Words Only When this is checked it will only show the words that you have added or modified It gives you a quick way to review all your custom words Commonly Misspelled Words In addition to the regular library of correctly spelled words we also provide you with a list of commonly misspelled words To see this list put a check in the box If you have words that you often misspell you can add them as well In that manner when you misspe
3. A word processor that reads to you PLUS comprehensive Word Prediction capabilities Talking V Word Processor 10 gt akion Word Processor a WEVELOPEMENTATWP91 MHLPTWP PROCI SIRPA Cet UO New Open Save 3 Preview Es a coy hasta Undo Redo Fin Read Stop Voices Close Help Normal y Times New Roman gt Bs U la HEH Pts et we amp A et 7 ay R kA amp PA Y Extract Highlight Color Grammar Options From the Extract Color window select the color to extract and then click on the Extract button By default all the colors are extracted The extractor will go through your document and copy all the highlighted information into anew document The demi tries to keep the formatting of the extracted information wi wl ufi iil aa PA CARAS ee r Pe es IA Le as close as possible to the original formatting A Creating a Summ Look Up extractor Noun The Talking Word Processor hag 1 an instrument for extracting tight fitting allows a reader to reduce the cofcomponents modeling system is usedto dotH 2 an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to the formula driven models used separate particles from a suspension Premier uses language modeling 3 a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty i not always have the formal paragshell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector A A pl arta How to summariz the Ta
4. Hot Keys The Hot Key option displays a diagram on how to use the Talking Word Prediction To select a word press the number that corresponds to that word or use the Up and Down Arrows to navigate to the desired word Once the word is highlighted press the CTRL key or double click the word with your mouse iw Hot Keys x This is an exam 2 examples Select the number that Corresponds to the word or press either b examined Eight click on CTRL Key to select 6 examining o the word to see the highlighted word 7 examinatior the definitions 8 exam 3 exams Press your up and down arrows to navigate the list of words View Menu Outline View shows the document structure The indentations and symbols in Outline View do not affect the way your document looks in Normal View and will not appear on the printed version Normal This will keep your layout in the Normal classic Full Screen mode Print Layout This will show the layout of the page on your monitor to the left side Centered Page Layout This will center the page on your monitor 36 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Header and Footer Headers and footers are typically used in printed documents You can create headers and footers that include text or graphics For example the page number date company logo document title or file name or author s name are usually printed at the top or bottom of each page in a document All these items can be heade
5. by Laurent Favre a research analyst at Swiss bank UBS AG and Jose Antonio Galeano of the Swiss Banque Cantonale Yaudoise correlation is in fact higher for most hedge fund strategies when markets fall 55 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Identifying Word Being Read The Talking Word Processor gives you two methods of identifying the word being read 1 You can have the word highlighted or 2 you can have the color of the word change The default is highlighting the word Change Word Color If you would prefer to have the word change color as it is being read instead of having it highlighted as it is being read make sure the Change Word Color option is selected If you do select this option make sure that you select a different color from the original text If you select black and your text is already black you will not be able to see the word color change If you select the same color as the background the word will disappear as it is being read Word Pause This feature allows you to slow down the reading of the word without distorting the word being spoken You can increase the time between each word This will allow you time to comprehend the word before going on to the next word Itis a great feature for people learning to read or studying anew language To use this feature place a check in the Enable Word Pause check box Word Pause Setup If you have enabled Word Pause you will also want to select a
6. 12 Line 26 Col 5 100 l NUM SS Arrange Icons This feature will arrange the icons on your menu and toolbars 64 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Help Menu This entire manual is located in the Help file There are three ways to open the Help menu 1 Press Fl 2 select the Help icon on the toolbar a purple book with a question mark on it or 3 press ALT H This Help file is in the traditional Microsoft Windows Help File format Contents This feature allows you to get the contents of the Help file Load User Manual This will load the User Manual onto the screen for you to read Training Videos on how to use the Talking Word Processor The Talking Word Processor now has built in videos If you ever want to see how to use the Talking Word Processor go the Help menu and select one of the videos gt gt Contents Fl Load User Manual Watch Video 1 Intro to the TP Watch Video 2 Writing With The TWP Watch Video 3 Summarizing pe Watch Video 4 Using the Talking Grammar Check ions About The videos are Introduction to the Talking Word Processor Writing With the Talking Word Processor Summarizing in the Talking Word processor Using the Talking Grammar Check PND 65 The Talking Word Processor User Manual About The About Help box is a small window that tells you which version number you have and contact information To open the About window press ALT H to open the Help
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8. AAA AAA AA AR entence Repeat Page 12 Line 26 Col 5 100 NUM el uu gt _ ___o P _ _ e ____ _____zQz gt _ gt _O__ o o_o e ooo ooo ooo o o 63 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Tile Vertically This view shows the open windows directly vertical or side by side to one another with the one most recently opened highlighted to the far right f Talking Word Processor File Edit Prediction Yiew Insert Format Read Table Window Help OFA SSS XFS OA A O 8 DO i New Open Save Print Preview Spell Paste Undo Red Find Read Stop Yoices Close Help Normal y Times New Roman j B Z U ez 00 wv ir F o WW 2 C DEVELOPEMENT TWP 91WHLPTWP DOC Sse E Grammar Options i i pa Extract Highlight Color Grammar Options Prediction Options W Repeat Extract Highlight Color fl amp PARA 5 Rep A AR 5Rep f Creating a Summary of you document The Talking Word Processor has a built in document summari reduce the contents of the document to its basic essentials A 1 summary giving it a higher degree of accuracy over the formu of Microsoft Word Because Premier uses language modelin fiction that does not always have the formal paragraph struct How to summarize a document The summary feature is built into the Talking Word F Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loz document is displayed you will see the support tool t Page
9. a grammar correction The grammar check will go through the document and identify potential problems with the writing it does not mean what has been written is wrong it will just point out things that should be reviewed for correctness Many of the times the simple errors will be caught and suggestions will be provided J Check for grammatical errors Check Grammar Stop The Talking Grammar Check looks for 29 different categories of grammar when looking for errors or potential problems When the Talking Grammar Check locates some questionable text 1t will prompt you by asking if it is correct It will verbally tell you why it may be wrong and provide you with potential options which are read when they are selected The Talking Grammar Check works like most other grammar checkers Write a new document or open up a document to check for grammatical mistakes and then a click on the Grammar icon amp rammar located on the Support bar You will be asked if you want to check for structure and grammar rules By default it looks for both but you can chose to run just one or both 17 The Talking Word Processor User Manual J Check for grammatical errors Check Grammar Stop If you have text selected it will only check the selected text Otherwise it will start from the beginning of the document As it is going through the document it will open a Check Grammar window Check Grammar Commonly
10. application MDI stands for Multiple Document Interface This style of application allows you to have more than one document open at the same time This is a handy feature because you may want to copy and paste from one document to another If you ever want to see which documents you have open select the Window menu At the bottom of the Window menu you will find a list of all the open documents Keep in mind that only one document at a time is active If you have more than one document open and you click on the Read button it will only read the document on the top This is the Active Document The Talking Word Processor User Manual The Screen Layout The Talking Word Processor has several different parts Like most word processors the Talking Word Processor has a Menu bar Tool bar Format bar and Edit area but it also has a Support bar The Support bar is a set of tools unique to the Talking Word Processor that will help you with your writing It has features like highlighting word prediction sentence and word repeat gt Talkin Word Processor U IDEVELOPEMENTITWP91WMHLPTW DOC 8 OPR Se Sk s ap noe 00 New Open mat ee ac z Cut Copy Paste Undo Red Find Read Stop Voices Close Help Normal y Times Ne Roman Bo Us E eE Hts y Y 3 B 5 From the Extract Color window select the color to extract and then click on the Extract button By default all the colors are extr
11. bar 13 The Talking Word Processor User Manual A Talking Word Processor C DEVELOPEMENT TWP91 MHLPTWP DOC hy File Edit Prediction View Insert Format tee Table Window Help OF EA 2 TIPS APA ae E Support Ip Undo Redo Find Read Stop Voices Close b Toolbar New Open Save 3 ha z Paste y 3 i Normal i E B Z U Y Bie KA we Extract Highlight Color Grammar rel 1 5 1 From the Extract Color window select the color to extract and then click on the i Extract button By default all the colors are extracted The extractor will go through your document and copy all the highlighted information into anew f document The extractor tries to keep the formatting of the extracted information as close as possible to the original formatting A ER also read it dl Creating a Summary of you document The Talking Word Processor has a builtin document summan zer feature This feature allows areader to reduce the contents of the document to its basic essentials A language modeling system is used to do the summary giving it a higher degree of accuracy over the formula driven models used in the summary feature of Microsoft Word Because Premier uses language modeling the summary will even be effective on fiction that does not always have the formal paragraph structure used in non fiction writings e How to summarize a document The summary feature is built into the Talking Word
12. confused word So far my experience at Seneca College has been great so Ignore far for the fact that have to commute from Aurora to the city everyday and the traffic is a pain in the but between Change Richmond Hill and Finch station its total grid lock Read Again Accept means to take on Except means exclude Read Description Ix Suggestions The top part of the window will display the text that is in question and the bottom part will list all of the options In the area between the two windows a message will be displayed This is the message that is read aloud Click on one of the alternatives in the lower window to have it be read The Check Grammar window gives you six different options Ignore Ignore All Change Undo Options and Cancel Ignore Select the Ignore button to skip the current question and go on to the next question Change This will replace the text in question with the selected replacement option from the suggestion window Read Again The read again feature will read the sentence again After you have made any changes you can click on the Read Again button and it will read the sentence to you again to hear if it sounds right Read Description If you want to hear the description of the problem again you can click on the Read Description button this will read the description of the problem again 18 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Undo If you ha
13. in the window Ln The line of text where the insertion point is located No measurement is displayed if the insertion point is not in the window Col The distance in number of characters from the left margin to the insertion point No measurement is displayed if the insertion point is not in the window Control Characters Control Characters are marks that are inserted right to left and in mixed text e g Arabic or Asian languages to specify the formatting of text when the inherent directionality of the text is insufficient to display expected results Zoom You can zoom in to get a close up view of your document or zoom out to see more of the page at a reduced size Go to the View menu select Zoom and then select Size You can also select the Zoom feature from fos the Paragraph bar Line Spacing Line Spacing is a feature that allows you to increase or decrease the space between each typed line of text To increase the space between lines go to the Settings menu and select Spacing A dialog box will be displayed with a drop down list allowing you to select the space between lines up to 5X the original layout To change the spacing select the size and then click Apply If you like the change select OK If you do not like the size 39 The Talking Word Processor User Manual make another selection until you find the setting that you want To go back to your original setting select 1X and press the OK button
14. menu and then select About To exit this window press the Enter key About The Talking Word Processor The Talking Word Processor version 10 0 The Talking Word Processor is a product of Premier Assistive Technology Devitt Kal InfotSreacingmacdeeasy com Copyright Aug 17 000 all rights reserved 66 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Using Word Prediction Configuring your Word Prediction The Predictor Pro Word Prediction can be easily configured to best suit your needs You can change the font size of the Prediction List edit the word list and even set the minimum number of characters you want to enter before it displays the Prediction List Select the Options item from the Prediction menu This will open up the Prediction Settings window Word Prediction X Word List Font Size C Smal Sample 1 C Medium Sample 2 Large Sample 3 Libraries f English Abridged English Unabridged View Library View User Library Display List After 2 Character Display E of Words E Wards Word List Font Size You have the choice of 3 different font sizes for your Prediction List The Small size is a 10 point font and is the default The Medium size is a 12 point font and the Large is a 14 point font Click on the button next to the size you want Libraries The new Predictor Pro comes standard with two libraries English Unabridged and English Abridged For the most part bo
15. re break pages as you edit the document You might want to set pagination options instead to control where the Talking Word Processor positions automatic page breaks 43 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Format Menu Character When you select the Character menu item a dialog box like the one below will appear From this box make any changes needed To apply character formatting to a single word select the word To apply character formatting to several words or a few characters within a word select the text you want to change Cancel Aral Black Positions i Normal Superscript C Subscript Attributes W Normal Italic Bold Strike out without Urnderlining Color Text Text Background C Black Other O Auto Other 44 Paragraph The Talking Word Processor User Manual In the Talking Word Processor a paragraph is a distinct unit of information that has its own formatting characteristics such as alignment spacing and styles A paragraph is always followed by a paragraph mark From the dialog box select the changes you need To keep those changes select OK to cancel select Cancel and no changes will be made Paragraph Line spacing Single line AB oan OE Sao uaa Teo One and a half lines C Two lines Free 100 lines ininches Exact Indents Left 0 000 Inch Right fo ooo ich 0 000 I
16. will be prompted to save changes before you exit the application 26 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Edit Menu The Edit menu is only available after you have opened or created a new document On this menu you will find what you need to manipulate text such as the Cut Copy and Paste features Undo The Undo function will undo the last change you made to the document If you inserted an image typed text or changed formatting you can select Undo and it will restore the document back to what it looked like before the last operation You should note that this function will only undo the last operation Redo If you make a mistake when using the Undo function select the Redo function The Redo option is only available after you have selected the Undo menu item Select All You can select the entire text of the document by holding down CTRL A This will highlight the entire document Be very careful with the entire text highlighted because if you press any key you could delete your entire document If that happens however you can select the Undo command and restore your document Cut When you select the Cut feature it will remove the highlighted text from your document and place it on the clipboard The clipboard will hold this information until the next cut command is activated If you select Cut twice only the last information will be retained on the clipboard The Hot Key for Cut is CTRL X There is also a
17. word Find Ei Find what Emid Hert Direction Cancel W Match case Up Down Replace The Replace feature 1s very similar to the Find feature You can type in a word or partial word and search for all occurrences of the word The only difference 1s that with the Replace feature you can search for a word or phrase and replace 1t with a different word or phrase When you select Replace 1t will only replace the first found text The Replace All feature will search from beginning to end of a document replacing the search text with what is typed into the Replace With area Replace Ea Find what Farr lest Replace with Geplate Replace ell Cancel IY Match case Cancel 29 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Summarize The Talking Word Processor has a built in document summarizer feature This feature allows a reader to reduce the contents of the document to its basic essentials A language modeling system is used to do the summary giving it a higher degree of accuracy over the formula driven models used in the summary feature of Microsoft Word Because Premier uses the language modeling the summary will even be effective on fiction that does not always have the formal paragraph structure used in non fiction writings How to summarize a document The summary feature is built into the Talking Word Processor so you must start the Talking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded
18. you continue to edit your document the object can be moved along with text and other elements You may also manually move the object by highlighting it and then dragging it to the new location Insert Object Ei tt Create New ACApotT yoeCombo Class ACCalendarDCtrl Class Cancel e isa Gea FT ACColorPick Class SE ACDaViewCt Class ACM onthyiewCtr Class ACHMPickerCtrl Class ACToolBarCtrl Class F Display As Icon AOLShortcut Class Result Inserts a new ACApptT yoeCombo Class object Pa A Into your dacument 42 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Text Frame The talking word processor supports text frames that can be inserted and moved around the document to the desired position To insert a text frame go to the insert menu and select Text Frame this will insert a text frame at the current cursor location ABLE extract Highlight Color pE 1 a AR W L T Select the frame to move it or stretch it to desired the location and size Page Break When you fill a page with text or graphics the Talking Word Processor inserts an automatic page break and starts a new page To force a page break at a specific location you can insert a manual page break Insert Break E Break types le Insert page break f Insert test wrapping break Section break types f Begin at new page f Begin at new line f Cancel However if you insert manual page breaks you might have to frequently
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20. AS Extract Highlight Color default highlight color from an icon on the Support bar To change the color just click on the Highlight Color icon Every time you click on the color icon it will change When it gets to the last color it will start over again To highlight a block of text first select the text that you want to highlight Then click on the Highlight button Hishlight_ The text that was selected will be highlighted with the color shown on the Color icon If you want to change the highlight color of some text first select the color from the Color icon Once the desired color has been chosen select the text again and click on the Highlight button You can remove any highlighting by selecting the text that has been highlighted and going to the Edit menu Select the Clear Highlights menu option This will remove all the highlights in the text even if the selected text has multiple highlight colors Extracting the Highlights det The Talking Word Processor has a feature called Extract E The Extract feature will go through the document copy the highlighted information and place 1t into a separate document The Extract feature enables you to extract a single color or all of the highlighted colors To Extract text from a document go through the document and highlight the information that you want to extract Click on the Extract button 12 The Talking Word Processor User Manual ig Extract Colors x S
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22. Processor so you must start the Talking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded open vaur dacument Once the dacumentis disnlaved won mall see the sunnoart taal har Page 14 line 6 Col 24 100 NUM The icon on the far right of the Support Toolbar is the Summarize icon 4mmarze You can select this icon for select Summarize from the edit menu This will open up the summarize window Summary CA J Place summary into a separate document J Highlight summary in the original document Yelow ii Highlight Color Summarize Method f Percentage of Document Number of Sentences Summary Size Reduce Document to 5 Percent Summarize File Cancel You have two choices of how you want the summary you have one or the other or both They are Place Summary into a separate document and Highlight Summary in the original document 14 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Place Summary into a separate document When there is a check in the Place Summary into a separate document a separate document is created and the resulting summary is placed in it This summary can be saved or read independently of the original document Highlight Summary in the original document When the Highlight Summary in the original document has a check mark in it the summary sentences will be highlighted in the original document When the summary is done you will be able to l
23. Spacebar You will hear the word Monkey To turn this feature Off de select Word Repeat from the Read drop down menu Sentence Repeat This feature will read the sentence back to you as soon as you finish it It can be turned On or Off by selecting this menu option When there is a check in front of this option it is On Reading Options The Reading Options menu will open up a window allowing you to make a whole host of changes to your reading environment Select Reading Options from the Read menu to open the Options dialog box oh Reading Options Text Color Black Back Ground Color white Sample oom Factor 100 Place All Documents Here C developementh TWP Browse 52 The Talking Word Processor User Manual There are three tabs on the window Screen Settings Tracking and Highlighting and Word View Settings Screen Settings On the Screen Settings tab you can change the background color foreground color set the default zoom level and change font size You can also set the default folder where you would like all of your documents to be saved w Reading Options X Screen Settings 1 Tracking 4nd Highlighting Word View Settings Text Color Black Back Ground Color ETA E Sample oom Factor 100 Default Font Size 12 haj Place All Documents Here CAD ocuments and Settingssteve immer bmp Documents Browse Changing Screen Colors You may
24. Summary Size Reduce Document to 5 Percent The default setting is a percentage of the document To switch between percentages of the document to number of sentences just select the desired radio button Once you have made your selection you can adjust your summary size You adjust the summary size simply by moving the slider to the left to make it 31 The Talking Word Processor User Manual smaller and to the right to make it larger Just below the slider you will see the percentage or the number of sentences that will be included in the document When you have made the selections for your summary just select the Summarize button and it will start the summary The summary process is pretty fast it can summarize about 10 pages a second so a 100 page document will take about 10 seconds Spell Check The Talking Word Processor comes with an integrated Talking Spell Checker You can access the Spell Checker by clicking on the Spell Checker icon Y or select Spell Checker from the edit menu If you have any word in your document that Spell Checker cannot find in its dictionary it will prompt you with a suggestion ES Word in Question HBR Read Original Replace With Read Replace Suggestion Change Change All Ignore Ignore All Cancel If you want to hear any word in the list all you need to do is highlight it and it will read the word back to you Word In Question The Word In Ques
25. Word View settings 58 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Table Menu A table is made up of rows and columns of cells that you can fill with text and graphics Tables are often used to organize and present information but they have a variety of other uses as well You can use tables to align numbers in columns and then sort and perform calculations on them You can also use tables to create interesting page layouts and arrange text and graphics Insert This allows you to insert a table A dialog box like the one below will appear and you can select the number of rows columns or both needed Click OK to keep the table attributes To exit without creating a table click Cancel w Table Attributes Select This option allows you to select a row a column or the entire table to make changes Create a table and select from the drop down list which part you want to modify table row or column and then make your changes Delete This allows you to delete a row a column or the entire table To delete click inside the table then select from the drop down list the item you want to delete Grid Lines If this is checked all grid lines will be shown on the table If it is not checked no grid lines will be visible 59 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Properties The dialog box below allows you to change any properties of the table from the width of each line to the background To save changes c
26. acted The extractor will go through your document and copy all the highlighted information into a new document The Ped tries to keep the formatting of the extracted information as close as possible to the original formatting Support Bar Creating a Summ 2 Look Up extractor Noun The Talking Word Processor hag 1 an instrument for extracting tight fitting allows a reader to reduce the cofcomponents modeling system is used to dotH 2 an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to the formula driven models used separate particles from a suspension Premier uses language modeling 3 a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty not always have the formal paragshell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector o e How to summariz The summary feature is Y the Talking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded open ed wan will see the sunnort tool har Page 14 Line 6 Col 24 100 NUM start 3 3 Microso A0L9 1 fam 3 windo Y 3 Interne twpinstall a twp mM The Menu bar is at the top of the window It contains a list of categories of functions If you select one of these categories with your mouse or keyboard the Talking Word Processor will display a list of all of the functions or settings available under that category These functions and settings are described in detail later in this manual The Tool bar is a series of icons across the top of th
27. ary to be a percentage of the original document or it can be a specific number of sentences 15 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Summarize Method f Percentage of Document Number of Sentences Summary Size Reduce Document to 5 Percent The default setting is a percentage of the document To switch between percentages of the document to number of sentences just select the desired radio button Once you have made your selection you can adjust your summary size You adjust the summary size simply by moving the slider to the left to make it smaller and to the right to make it larger Just below the slider you will see the percentage or the number of sentences that will be included in the document When you have made the selections for your summary just select the Summarize button and it will start the summary The summary process is pretty fast 1t can summarize about 10 pages a second so a 100 page document will take about 10 seconds Viewing a Definition of a Word To view the definition of any word just double click on the word to see the definition The Definition window will open You can click on the Read button to hear the definition from beginning to end or you can use your Up and Down Arrows on your keyboard to read a line at a time When you are finished just press the ESC key or click on the Close button SB Ultimate Talking Dictionary j x Noun 1 a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of
28. aste 27 Print Layout 35 Print Preview 24 Printing 25 Properties 59 Read 49 Read Menu 49 Redo 26 Replace 28 31 Ruler 37 Save 22 Save As 22 Saving a Document 21 Section 38 Select 58 Select All 26 Select Voice 49 Show Word View 57 Spell Check 31 Status Bar 38 Stop Reading 49 Style 46 Summarize 29 Table Menu 58 Tabs 46 Text 40 Text Color 47 Thesaurus 32 Tile Horizontally 61 Tile Vertically 62 Tool Bar 36 Undo 26 View Menu 35 Window Menu 60 Word In Question 31 Word Pause 55 Word Pause Setup 55 Word Repeat 51 Word Spacing 39 Word View Settings 56 Zoom 38
29. ber position fo inch Humber format Number style taa Character in front None 7 Character after Text pozition 0 25 inch Separating Character Tab Level 1 T Start at O Bestar numbeing 1 Continue liet 46 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Tabs To select the Tab position select Tabs from the Format drop down menu and choose the Positions To select the desired alignment click on Left Center Right or Decimal To keep changes click OK To exit click Cancel Select Clear to clear one tab or Clear All too clear all tab settings Tabs Tab stop position K inch Cancel 1 58 2 36 3 15 3 94 473 5 5 F 6 30 Clear eel EE T Right most tab Clear All Style The Style list on the Format drop down menu also known as the Style Preview shows many formats associated with your styles Attribute Explanation Left indented style Shows whether left aligned text is indented name negatively or positively from the left margin Font size of style Reflects the exact font size of the style if it is name between 8 pt and 16 pt Word displays smaller type in an 8 pt font and larger type in a 16 pt font Four horizontal lines Represents left right centered and justified alignment Styles Ea Styles 47 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Paragraph Frames Frames are containers for text that can be position
30. can directly export the open document to a PDF File This PDF File is compatible with PDF Equalizer as well as PDF Magic To export a document go to the File menu and select Export Save in O Demo folder 5 007 033 p1 pdf EG 22 007 033 p2 pdf My Recent 007 033 p3 pdf Documents ps 007 033 p4 pdF 3 12 007 033 p5 pdf 12 007 033 p6 pdf Desktop 007 033 p7 pdf 007 033 p8 pdf 5 5 007 033 p9 pdf 2 007 033 p10 pdf My Documents My Computer z My Network File name O rm Places Save as type Portable Document Format pdf h Cancel Once the dialog box opens specify a file name and location and select the save button 23 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Page Setup The Page Setup feature allows you to adjust the paper size and margins The default document is Letter size paper 8 5 x 11 0 with 1 margins on all sides To select a different paper size select it from the drop down list You will find most standard types listed If you do not find one you can use there is a User Defined choice The User Defined format will allow you to enter any size paper When you adjust the paper size it is only for the active document Page Setup Margins Top 11 000 mch Bottom 11 000 inch Left 11 000 inch Right 11 000 Inch Paper Format Custom size ka width 500 lt inch Height 111 000 inch Portrait Landscape Sechon Section start New pag
31. categories of grammar rules that can be turned on or off If there is a check next to one of the rules that rule is on The changes made to this window become the default until they are changed again The File Menu The File menu is used to manage documents Press ALT F to get to this menu Once at the File menu you can use the Up and Down Arrows to select the menu item you want and then press Enter to activate it New Document There are two ways to start a new document You can select New from the File menu or you can use CTRL N This will create a new document and give it the name of untitled1 If you have created more than one document without naming it the system will give each document the name untitled1 untitled2 etc based on the number of unnamed documents that you have opened When you create a new document it is automatically placed on the top If you already had a document open it will remain open but will be underneath the new document There is also a New Document icon in the shape of a blank white document located below the Menu bar that you can click on to access a new document Opening a Document The Open option is similar to the New Document option because it does nothing with the existing document It will open the document you have selected and place it on top All of the documents already open are still there and are stacked in the order they were opened To open a document select Open from th
32. d Thesaurus x Looked animal Change living Cancel Synonym 1 de breathing sentient bestial animalistic beastly brutal H To the right of the Looked field is the Replace field The word in the Change field will replace the originally highlighted word in the source document if you select Replace The synonym list will display all of the possible words that could be used to replace the original If you find a word you want to use simply highlight it and click on the Replace button Grammar Check The Grammar Check works like most other grammar checkers Write a new document or open up a document that you want to check for grammatical mistakes Click on the Grammar icon rammar located on the Support bar If you have text selected it will only check the selected text Otherwise it will start from the beginning of the document As it is going through the document it will open a Check Grammar window 33 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Check Grammar Commonly confused word So far my experience at Seneca College has been great so Ignore far for the fact that have to commute from Aurora to the city everyday and the traffic is a pain in the but between Change Richmond Hill and Finch station its total grid lock Read Again Accept means to take on Except means exclude Read Description Ix Suggestions The top part of the window will display the text tha
33. dix A System Requirements System Requirements Windows CPU Memory Disk space CD ROM Keyboard Mouse Speakers Sound Card XP home Pro Vista 900 MHz Pentium or Faster 256 MB 60 MB 4X or Faster 104 key Standard Keyboard Standard Mouse Standard Speakers Any Windows Compatible Sound Card TI The Talking Word Processor User Manual index About 64 Arrange Icons 62 As Fixed Object 40 41 At Caret Position 40 41 Background Color 48 Bullets and Numbers 45 Cancel 32 Cascade 60 Centered Page Layout 35 Change 31 32 Character 43 Clear Highlights 27 Close 21 Col 38 Contents 63 Control Characters 38 Copy 26 Cut 26 Delete 58 Document Statistics See Edit Menu 26 Exiting the Application 25 Extract Highlights 27 File Menu 20 Find 28 Format Menu 43 Grammar 34 Grammar Check 16 19 32 Grid Lines 58 Header Footer 36 Help Menu 63 Highlight 27 Highlight by Paragraph And Word 54 Highlight by Sentence and Word 54 Highlight By Word 34 Highlight Colors 27 Highlight Summary 30 Highlighting 54 Ignore 32 Ignore All 32 Image 40 Insert 58 Insert Menu 40 Key Echo 51 Line Spacing 38 Ln 38 Load User Manual 63 New Document 20 Normal 35 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Object 41 Opening a Document 20 Page Break 42 Page Setup 23 Paragraph 44 Paragraph Bar 37 Paragraph Frames 47 P
34. docn c cheung chic paper sor os cele eh rr pora The dc de nen mal border on ach erk Ther sou ranie Chane dey ond eo E che gost door mE The Print Preview screen can display one or two pages at the same time You can also zoom in and out Select the Next button to go to the next page or two You cannot edit the document in this window Click on the Print button to print and the Close button to return to the Edit window Under the Menu bar an icon in the shape of a black document with a magnifier can be selected to preview the print job 25 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Printing You can print a document by holding down the CTRL P key This will open up the Print dialog box Default printer Ready Brother HL 1240 senes LPT1 Comment Copies Humber of copies i H Pages fror 1 to fi Selection pi Cancel From the Print dialog box you can select a printer set the printer options specify the number of copies you want and the pages you want to print Once you have adjusted your settings select the OK button to print the document There is also an icon in the shape of a printer under the Menu bar you can click to print Exiting the Application There are two ways to exit the application The easiest way 1s to press ALT F4 This will close the application Before the application closes it will go through each of your documents to see 1f any changes have been made If you have made changes you
35. e Apply to whole document cos In addition to changing the paper size you can also adjust the margins The default margin is a 1 0 border on each side When you make changes 1t only applies to the active document 24 Print Preview The Talking Word Processor User Manual The Print Preview menu option will allow you to see what your document will look like when it prints Go to the File menu and then select Print Preview to open up the Print Preview window w Print Preview Print Next Previous One Page oom lr Zoan Mut HE encender e Unoded and dae Ale pe ie eco oa ma chic loca m ai Docume PP he doco end ihe pepe rc OE a sti rea oo de pein a lec rara The pare an be up 134 chron lona nd bo my cora br O cra OF rara ca nal pub ou do cn oo E le m cacra nhe Ak ch BIEN no cado chee Poo bad o e opce e alo Cer E erry abrar CAT Aica IF er ro E E IL ere har LFT acy CB rd pod oe E NT LL E AE re IE Ec ee F ce cda e all be poe ATA AT oe ee oe CO A A ed Chom fom Pik nd ed A st ch nc ee er edo ne Ponte cht dd Ake ord rac Copy Fic Jol ES Page 1 of 3 The Peet Scop vl ae LA ee ee oo eden The de Pcl Gecurencig Leer esr paper La 110 ad l reh rapra ll ch ay L Found Tomkcco Of Pocre Pepersor mlrccic Mor de Org dem lee Poul A andara y par lil Pou do net NONE NAC LEE IE LC ul cal imcrocAncd Th wrk Aired Berge ce LEO cre rare E paper Then ou EU Er IE od Pr chic LT det LI Inad
36. e File menu or hold down CTRL O This will open up the Open File dialog box This is a standard Microsoft dialog box There is also an icon in the shape of an open manila folder below the Menu bar you can click on to open a document 20 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Open file EES Look in E Twp a EA ex a buttons EHE EF Manual cay teste TWP Manual Files of type Microsoft Word doc Cancel WE Use the Open File dialog box to select the file that you want to open The default is a Microsoft Word style document If you want to select a different type press the Tab key until you get to get to the File Type drop down list box From this list you may select from a wide variety of file types including Word HTML Rich Text Format and ASCII Once you have found the file you are looking for select the OK button and press Enter Close The Close option is different from Exit The easiest way to remember this is that you close a document and exit an application There are safeguards built into the Close feature If you try to close a document that you have changed you will be prompted to save the changes If you have not given the document a name the Save As dialog box will appear prompting you to give the existing document a name See the Save As section of this manual for more information The Hot Key for this feature is CTRL F4 There is also an icon on the toolbar of an open door that will c
37. e window right below the Menu bar These icons are connected to some of the commonly used functions like Save and Open These commonly used functions are on the Tool bar to increase efficiency because 10 The Talking Word Processor User Manual instead of going to the menu and finding the option all you have to do is click on the icon Formatting the text in a document can be done from the menus but it is easier to do it from the Formatting bar For example 1f you want a different font or font size all you have to do is select the text you want to change and then select the format changes from the Format bar The Support bar is a toolbar that has tools that can help writers be more efficient This toolbar has a button for highlighting highlighting color selection and highlight extraction There are four other buttons on this toolbar Prediction Prediction Options W Repeat and S Repeat gt e Summarize A Prediction J wW Repeat Jf 5 Repeat Options The button labeled Prediction X is used to turn the Word Prediction On and Off Turn the Word Repeat On and Off by clicking the W Repeat venom eal The S Repeat KA button stands for Sentence Repeat Sentence Repeat will read the entire sentence when it is complete When there is a red X Xl the button this feature is A turned Off When there is a green check 4t8 1 on the button this feature is turned On The idea behind the Sup
38. ed on a page and sized You must use a frame when you want to position text or graphics that contain certain items To select where you want the frame placed check the appropriate box For a frame on the left side of your paragraph select Left To put a frame on the right side of your paragraph select Right The same applies for the other choices of Top and Bottom From here you can also select Tab Lines and Styles such as Connected Frames and Double Lines In addition after you have selected your frames you have the option of selecting the width of the line and the distance of the text from that line This can be done using the drop arrows or by clicking into the text box and making your change To keep your changes click OK To exit without keeping changes click Cancel is Paragraph Frames Top MT Bight T Bottom _ Cancel IF Tab Lines Styles Connected Frames FT Double Lines Line Width fi pt Y Text Distance o pt Text Color Select the text you want changed and then select Text Color from the Format drop down menu Choose the color you want and click OK To exit without making changes click Cancel Color Deine Eustom Eolas gt Carcel 48 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Background Color Select the area where you want the background color changed Select Background Color from the Format drop down menu Choose the color you want and click OK To exit withou
39. elect Extraction Color f Yellow Only Blue Only Pink Only f Green Only C Current Highlight Color Cerca From the Extract Color window select the color to extract and then click on the Extract button By default all the colors are extracted The extractor will go through your document and copy all the highlighted information into a new document The extractor tries to keep the formatting of the extracted information as close as possible to the original formatting When the extraction is done the information will be placed in a new document This document can be saved like any other file The Talking Word Processor can also read it Creating a Summary of you document The Talking Word Processor has a built in document summarizer feature This feature allows a reader to reduce the contents of the document to its basic essentials A language modeling system is used to do the summary giving it a higher degree of accuracy over the formula driven models used in the summary feature of Microsoft Word Because Premier uses language modeling the summary will even be effective on fiction that does not always have the formal paragraph structure used in non fiction writings How to summarize a document The summary feature is built into the Talking Word Processor so you must start the Talking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded open your document Once the document is displayed you will see the support tool
40. he Options menu is open select one of the libraries is Word Prediction x Word List Font Size 7 Small f Medium tf Large Select a library f English Abridged English Unabridged View Library View User Library Display List After 2 Character Cloze Then select the View Library button This will open the Edit Word List window x English Abridged Add Usage aie Remove E Show Modified words Only abandoned abandoned Show Common ee misspelled od Only a o gu a a o 3 T o pu or or ra o a a qu Er cr iar n p iey a Eh m A Go To add a word select the Add button When you select the Add button the Add Word window will open x Add Word testword Alternate Spelling testword 71 The Talking Word Processor User Manual When adding a word you have two places to type in the word You have the Add Word edit field where you can enter the correct spelling of the word This is the word that will be displayed in the Prediction List The second field 1s the Alternative Spelling This field allows you to enter in an alternative spelling for the correctly spelled word For example if you constantly misspell the word tomorrow as tomorow you can enter your alternative spelling and then every time you misspell it you will be prompted with the correct spelling of the word The Alternative Spelling feature can be used for ma
41. highlighted text highlight the text you want and press the F8 key select Voice The system comes with five standard voices You can change the voices at any time by pressing the CTRL F12 key or you can press ALT T to bring up the Settings menu You can then select Voices from the menu see next page 50 The Talking Word Processor User Manual B8 oice Options x Voices Cepstral Frank Voice Rate slider Voce Rate You can scroll through the list of voices until you find the one you want As you select a voice the voice will read to you so you can hear the sound of the voice Once you have selected the desired voice you can adjust the Rate by moving the first slide bar to the left for slower or right for faster Both the Rate and Pitch can be adjusted from a 10 to 10 with O being the default To hear the sound of your settings click on the Test button Y ou can adjust the Pitch just like changing the voice rate Moving the slider to the left will decrease the pitch while sliding it to the right increases the pitch As both the Rate and Pitch are being adjusted you will hear the sound of the new settings Select the OK button to close the window and save the changes The changes that you have selected will be set to the current document They will also be saved as the default The next document you add will have these voice settings If you do not have a document open the voice setting will be set as the defaul
42. land or water 2 where the air is unconfined 3 a tourmament in which both professionals and amateurs may play 4 information that has become public Verb 1 cause to open orto become open Using the Talking Grammar Check The Talking Grammar Check was built from the ground up to support struggling writers Most grammar checks such as in Microsoft Word are optimized for 16 The Talking Word Processor User Manual accomplished writers and work well at catching those types of mistakes The Talking Grammar Check is different because it is designed for struggling writers Struggling and new writers make different types of mistakes There are over 2 000 rules built into the Talking Grammar Check which results in millions of different combinations In addition to the 2 000 rules it is broke down into what is call a two pass grammar check The first pass the grammar check looks for style and structure errors and the second checks for grammar rules Once your structure has been checked this looks for things like long sentences etc It will catch some grammar rules but once it 1s finished with that part it will then go through the document again and check the grammar It is also important to note that just because you ran the grammar check once does not mean you should not run it again If you made some changes during the check you may have created a new error that did not exist before This is a grammar check not
43. lick OK To exit without saving changes click Cancel Table Properties User defined Cancel O Auto Other Vertical alignment Line width Top Test distances Left 150Pt Top foor F Right 1 50 Pt Bottorn o oo Pt Options Menu Use the Options Menu to set the default font and font size for the Talking Word Processor To set the default font and font size for all new documents go to the Option menu and select Default Settings gr Set Defaults Default Fort Times Hew Roman Default Font Size 16 Select Defaults When the dialog box opens select the Select Defualts button This will open the font dialog box 60 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Cancel Attributes Positions mw Normal italic e Normal Bold Strike out C Superscript Underlining without C Subscript Color Text Text Background IM black Other tuto Other Select the Font and Font Size you want as the default and then select OK You will be returned to the default window If you select OK this will become the new defaults for all new documents and set the current font and font size to this new defaults If Cancel is selected the window will close and the defaults will not change 61 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Window Menu This menu shows the way the window is presented on the screen See below for examples of the different la
44. lking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded open O ars POLETI Om 1 AA COLET a PU e PA O Te OLE ODATI OO ar Page 14 Line 6 Co 24 100 NUM start v 3 Microso AOL 9 1 fam 3 windo 3 Interne twpinstall e twp Micr se Talking Wo By Premier Assistive Technology The Talking Word Processor User Manual Copyright 2002 Premier Assistive Technology Inc All Rights Reserved This documentation and the accompanying software are copyrighted materials Making unauthorized copies of this material 1s prohibited by law No part of the software or documentation may be reproduced transmitted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any human or computer language without prior written permission of Premier Assistive Technology Inc Premier Assistive Technology Inc asserts its Moral Right to be identified as the author of this work in all jurisdictions which recognize the Moral Right Notice UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH PREMIER ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY INC THIS PUBLICATION AND THE SOFTWARE SOLD WITH THIS PUBLICATION ARE PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FIT THIS PARTICULAR PURPOSE THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS PUBLICATION AND SOFTWARE REMAINS WITH YOU THE USER IN NO EVENT SHALL PRE
45. ll those words you will be prompted with the correct spelling Prediction Levels Not all writers write at the same level Therefore the Word Prediction does not assume that everybody needs the same words The Word Prediction can be adjusted based on the grade level at which you are attempting to write The preset grade levels are 4 6 8 and All Grades Prediction Levels Grades 4 and below Grades 6 and below o Grades 6 and below All Grades When a grade level is selected it will try to predict at the selected grade level and below Set the Prediction Grade Level by selecting the Option button next to the E Prediction button on the Support bar Prediction Options This will open up the Prediction Library List You can change the Prediction Level at any time This Prediction Level will remain the default until it is changed The words can be moved from one grade level to another If a word is not in the grade level you want 1 e it appears in the Grade 6 and below group but you want it to be in the Grade 4 and below group all you have to do is increase its usage value To move a word from a lower group to a higher group you must decrease its usage value 70 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Adding a Word to a Library To add a word to a library you need to have the dictionary open You can do this by selecting the Options menu item from the Prediction menu in the Talking Word Processor Once t
46. logy Inc 1309 N Williams St Joliet IL 60435 USA Phone 815 927 7390 Fax 815 722 8802 E mail info readingmadeeasy com Web www readingmadeeasy com The Talking Word Processor User Manual Table of Contents COPY hed Iii 2 OUK RET TENCO nn ey E e o O E E A ee 8 The Talking Word Processor lisis 9 TRE SCT eM LAU a 10 Fiehia etnies amd BX actin ddr N 12 Extactine me HoHo sc gn 12 Creating a Summary Of YOU dOCUMENLE ooooonnnnnncccnnnnnnocnnnnnnnnnnononanonnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 13 How tosummanze a docum il ns 13 Highlight Summary in the original document ooooonnnnncncncncnnninnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnonnnnnnnnnnonnnnos 15 Adj snne the SUMMINATY SIZE SAS 15 Viewing a Definition of a Word ooooooonncnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnss 16 Usine the Talkie Grammar Chet is 16 Document SUAS OCS a r 19 Grammar Check pti Ons aa at cala leia ter dias 19 TR FS MEM da 20 NeW DOCUMEN sree E 20 Opcine a Documentacion di ies 20 CHOSE POOL OO E E teats wacdsbugens dane etemiediedteausdsnias 21 Savia a DOCUMEN peerless ea Ai we seuliaroee 21 e ld o 22 E E RN 22 Exportine A DecumentTo FPD Prenn T E 23 Pase Sesa 24 PPE De Wien iodo si ind 29 O ean hc 26 Exite the AppiCalon taa 26 Edit Me cia ire 27 Und E EE E E ete eae 27 Rda E AEE A OAO 27 SECCA leare a a A A a A 27 A O O 21 CODY ansann E aa 27 P EE O O T E ER E RP ree ee ae 28 Deltasone 28 Fes IDG E A 28 TS Me EV lo 28 Pt Tt NO
47. lor and the current word is highlighted in a contrasting color You can select the Highlight Color See Changing the Highlight Color later in this section and diversification benefits promised by their promoters in falling markets according to a new study Hedge fund MENEPES are quick to point out that the booming asset class attracting record cash flaws and generating up to a fifth of equity trading revenues at investment banks offers low correlation to traditional investments like stocks But according to a joint academic study just published in the Journal of Alternative Investment by Laurent Favre a Highlight by Paragraph and Word If you want to have the current paragraph highlighted with a contrasting color of the current word being read make sure that there is a checkmark in front of the Highlight by Paragraph and Word menu option You will find the highlight options on the Read menu The colors of the highlight are selectable LONDON Reuters Most hedge fund strategies offer little of the protection and diversification benefits promised by their promoters in markets according to anew study Hedge fund managers are quick to point out that the booming asset class attracting record cash flows and generating up to a fifth of equity trading revenues at investment banks offers low correlation to traditional investments like stocks But according to a joint academic study just published in the Journal of Alternative Investment
48. lose the file when selected Saving a Document There are two ways to save a document 1 Save or 2 Save As If you have opened an existing document you can use the Save feature You will not be prompted for a file name If you have not named your document before saving it you will be prompted for a file name and file type When you select Save or Save As it will only save the active document If you have made changes to more than one open document then you must go to each document and select Save to update that document 21 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Save To save changes to a document hold down CTRL S You will only be prompted if an error occurs when you are trying to save a document If no message is displayed the file has been saved successfully If you try to save a document and have not yet given it a name you will be prompted to do so with the Save As dialog box See the Save As section for more information There is also an icon of a black diskette below the Menu bar Clicking on this icon will save any changes made to the document Save As You will see the Save As dialog box in two different situations One is when you have created a document but have not saved it yet When you save a document for the first time you must supply a file name file type and file location By default a new document is given the name Untitled1 the file type is Microsoft Word and the location is My Docu
49. ments If the location and the type are correct all you need to do is type in a file name The name can be up to 255 characters long with any combination of letters and numbers You do not need to put an extension on the file such as doc or txt the system will automatically do this for you based on the type of file selected If you attempt to give the file a name that already exists you will get a prompt asking you if you want to overwrite the existing file If you select Yes the old file will be gone You can also use Save As to copy files You can open a document and then go to File select Save As and give the document a new name It does not remove the old file 1t only makes a copy of it Save in E My Documents e ek En atest traning Autorun MAX Projects Updaters My Recent bioz page 88 O WebDrive Documents call A WI 1 Invoices Master US_rev1221 3 cep wh 1 page doc Demo Folder 472 page doc Desktop Flash 1413 page doc Amy Music 4175 jpage doc 2 my Pictures 11555555555 doc My Videos H Accessibility Suite 9 doc 5 New Folder wi Grant wardLetterBOTH_Ken ri z New Project WM INYOICE doc y g Premier AT Wi Press Release PDFE 4 doc S Readiris sample 2 My Network File name iii Places Save as type Microsoft Word 97 2003 doc v Cancel My Documents My Computer 22 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Exporting A Document To PDF The talking word processor
50. n List will appear and follow your cursor as you a Talking Word Processor Untitled efx cis FileEdit Prediction View Insert Format Read Table Window Help a x OPE ARPA OQO OO New Open Save Pi O Paste Undo Find Read Stop Voices Close Help Normal ella 3 ty w 118 vy B7ZUI S 2Z3 S f00 EH Ati SY Extract Highlight W Repeat SRepeat Summarize 5 6 J a L ras ee aa siaz 4 E A now as tyo how as you typ es Ka v Line 6 Col 14 100 NUM s start 4 Microso o A 3 Interne 2 VisualB CA A TA When the word list is visible you can hear the words in the list by using your Up and Down Arrow keys to go through the list 74 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Selecting a Word from the Word List Use your Up and Down Arrow keys to go up and down the list As each word is highlighted it will be read to you There are three ways to select the word to insert into your active document as you are typing 1 You can simply double click the word with your mouse 2 press the CTRL key on your keyboard or 3 press the corresponding number in front of the word you want In the following example you would press the number 6 to select the word typing The numeric keypad will not work for selecting these words You must use the number keys above the letters on your keyboard Press the 6 or the CTRL key to select the word How to Get the Right Word Every Time Predicti
51. n icon of a pair of scissors under the Menu bar that you can click to use the Cut feature Copy The Copy feature is very similar to the Cut feature except that it does not remove the highlighted text from the document Instead it makes a copy of it and places it on the clipboard The Hot Key for Copy is CTRL C There is also an icon of two cascading pieces of paper under the Menu bar that you can select to use the copy function 21 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Paste When you use the Paste feature it will paste the item on the clipboard into your document The information from the clipboard will be pasted where your cursor is placed To paste something from the clipboard hold down CTRL V There is also an icon of a clipboard and paper under the Menu bar you can select to use the Paste function Delete When the Delete feature is selected it will remove all of the selected text from the document If you hit Delete by mistake just select the Undo menu option Highlight The Highlight feature is used to change the background color of the selected text This is often used to indicate points of interest or topic sentences For more information on highlighting text see the Highlighting and Extracting Text section earlier in this document Clear Highlights This feature lets you remove any highlighting in the selected text To remove the highlights select the text from which the highlights need to be removed and
52. n that does not always have How to summarize a document The summary feature is built into the Talking Word Processor so you must start the Talking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded open your document Once the document is displayed you will see the support tool bar Page 12 Line 24 Col 50 100 NUM start 4 Micros a BiA od 13 Windo v Interns 2 Visual v wr TWP 9 Ma 5 untitled Word View Settings To change the settings of the Word View window go to the Read menu and select Reading Options Then select the Word View tab From this window you can adjust the font size You can select from 8 to 24 point font When you select a font size you will see the sample text change to reflect the new setting You can also change the Background Color and the Text Color You do not need to save the changes All you have to do is 57 The Talking Word Processor User Manual select the Close button and the options that you have selected will automatically be saved for the next time you read xi w Reading Options Screen Settings Font Size Back Color Text Color 18 Point li Yellow Blue e Display Word View Window while reading OF Cancel Apply Show Word View Place a check in the Display View check box This will display the Word View window while the Talking Word Processor is reading Remove the check if you want to turn off the
53. nch First line 45 Alignment i Left C Right C Centered C Justified Cacal Bottom 0 000 inch The Talking Word Processor User Manual Bullets and Numbers You can add bullets to existing lines of text or you can create a bulleted list automatically as you type If you begin a paragraph by typing a hyphen or an asterisk followed by a space or a tab and some text the Talking Word Processor automatically converts the paragraph to a bulleted item when you press Enter to end the paragraph This type of bullet uses a character font You can add numbers to existing lines of text or you can create a numbered list automatically as you type If you begin a paragraph by typing 1 pressing the Spacebar or Tab and then typing some text the program automatically converts the paragraph to a numbered list item when you press Enter to end the paragraph You can also choose to increase or decrease the level of the bullets and numbers For example if you have chosen the large characters of A B C as your bullets or numbering and you select increase the next line will be increased to the small characters of a b c If you select decrease the next line will begin with the numbers 1 2 3 See the drop down list for the order Bullets and Numbering Bulleted Numbered Bullet character BHi gt Bullet Font size Auto Cancel Formatting Bullet Num
54. ndant phrases e Number agreement e Archaic words e Subject verb agreement e Stilted words e Verb tense Jf Awkward usage ei Possessives Yague modifiers e Capitalization W Jargon e Abbreviation form e Cliches W Humber farm e Gender specific terms i Unbalanced punctuation e Confusing terms ff Unusual word combination J Commonly confused words lv Classified singulars J Contractions W Qualified absolutes e Punctuation inside quotes e Double comparisons J Punctuation outside quotes e Double negatives con There are 29 different categories of grammar rules that can be turned On or Off If there is a check next to one of the rules that rule is On The changes made to this window become the default until they are changed Prediction Menu Word Prediction This menu option is used to turn the Word Prediction feature On and Off When there is a check in front of this option itis On See the Using Word Prediction section later in this manual for more information Options To change how the Word Prediction list looks and functions select the Options feature Use this feature to change the font size in the Word Prediction list the library to use and how many characters need to be typed before the Word Prediction list appears For more information on how to customize the Word Prediction list go to the Configuring Your Word Prediction section later in this manual 35 The Talking Word Processor User Manual
55. ng Options X Screen Settings 1 Tracking And Highlig Word View Settings Word Tracking Features Reading Style Track By Word Only Faragraph and Sentence Color Light Blue Identity Word being Read Highlight word Change Word Color Text Color Blue Enable Word Pause Pause Length 3 0 This ig a sample of what it will look like when Highlighting The Talking Word Processor now supports multiple forms of highlighting You can have the Talking Word Processor highlight by word only by word and sentence and by word and paragraph The highlight colors are selectable to meet your visual preference 54 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Highlight by Word Highlight by Word only highlights each individual word that is being read It will follow along as the document is being read on of electronic Es that each q eryday lives including desktop and phones physical access devices a To select Highlight by Word go to the Read menu select the Highlight menu item then select the sub menu item Highlight by Word and press the Enter key If there is a check mark in front of it this feature is turned On Highlight by Sentence and Word Select this option if you want to have the current sentence highlighted as it reads to you It highlights both the current sentence as well as the word that is being read in that sentence The sentence is highlighted in one co
56. ng a word is great but how do you know if it has selected the right word It is easy with the Talking Word Processor If you would like to find a definition of a word in the Prediction Word List select the word with your mouse and then click the right mouse button once When you do that the Definition window will open 8 Ultimate Talking Dictionary Noun 1 writing done with a typewriter erb 1 write by means of a typewriter 2 identify as belonging to a certain type 75 The Talking Word Processor User Manual When the definition appears just click on the Read button to hear it You can also use your Up and Down Arrows to read a line at a time When you are done just press the ESC key or click Close Find the Definition of a Word by Double Clicking the Word If you would like to find a definition of a word just double click the word in the Talking Word Processor When you double click a word the Definition window will open Then click on the Read button to hear the definition When you are done click the Close button or press the ESC key SB Ultimate Talking Dictionary Noun 1 a small part of something intended as representative of the whole items selected fram a population and used to est hypotheses about the population 3 all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class erb 1 take a sample of 76 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Appen
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58. ny different things You can use it as shorthand or the phonetic spelling of a word For the word phone you could enter in the alternative spelling fone and then anytime the word is spelled phonetically the correct word would appear in the list Word Usage Not all words are created equal Some words are used more frequently than others For example the word antelope is not used as often as the word anticipate Therefore if you type in the first few letters you would want anticipate to be higher on the list than antelope You can provide a usage value to any word you add to a list by moving the slider bar from the left to the right The default is zero The higher the value you give a word the higher it will be displayed on the Prediction List Higher value words appear higher on the list than words that have a lower value but similar spelling You can use this feature to adjust words already in the library If you do not want a word to appear on a list you can completely remove the word from the library or you can give it a usage value so low that it will only display when all other options have been exhausted When you have finished adding a word select the OK button 72 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Removing a Word from a Library To remove a word from a library you need to first have the library open Once the library is open you will need to find and select the word you
59. ook at the original document and see exactly where the sentences that were pulled into the summary came from There are four choices of colors that can be used by the summary These colors are Yellow Blue Pink and Green These are the same colors used by the highlight and extraction feature built into the Talking Word Processor This gives you a big advantage over other summary tools because once the summary is done you can go through and add things to the summary just by selecting the text you want to add and then click on the high light color To remove text from the summary select the highlighted text you want to remove and then select Clear Highlights from the Edit menu This is the first summary tool that allows you to quickly modify the summary If you want you can have the Summary Highlight in one color and then switch colors for your highlight that way you will be able to easily distinguish what was in the original and what was not Once you are done highlighting and you would like to create a separate document that contains just the summary use the Extract feature on the Support Toolbar Adjusting the summary size You can control the size of the summary For some documents you can create a summary that is only 10 percent of the original document and some you will need a larger summary Adjusting the size of the summary will take a little practice to meet your needs To help with this you have two options you can restrict the summ
60. open your document Once the document is displayed you will see the Support Toolbar Y The icon on the far right of the Support Toolbar is the Summarize icon Yates You can select this icon or select Summarize from the edit menu This will open up the summarize window Summary x Highlight Color I Place summary into a separate document i Highlight summary in the original document Yellow be Summarize Method f Percentage of Document C Number of Sentences Summary Size Reduce Document to 5 Percent Summarize File Cancel You have two choices of how you want the summary you have one or the other or both They are Place Summary into a separate document and Highlight Summary in the original document Place Summary into a separate document When there is a check in the Place Summary into a separate document a separate document is created and the resulting summary is placed in it This summary can be saved or read independently of the original document 30 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Highlight Summary in the original document When the Highlight Summary in the original document has a check mark in it the summary sentences will be highlighted in the original document When the summary is done you will be able to look at the original document and see exactly where the sentences that were pulled into the summary came from There are four choices of colors that can be used by
61. ot move the image only the elements around it You will still have the option to manually move the image by highlighting it and dragging it to a new location At Caret Position This option inserts the image as a moveable object When you continue to edit your document the image can be moved along with text and other elements You may also manually move the image by highlighting it and then dragging it to the new location 41 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Insert Image HE bana Aa Files of type windows Bitmapl EMP y Lancel we Object Where Insert Image places a graphic into your document the Insert Object feature allows you to insert graphical or non graphical elements such as a spreadsheet video clip organizational chart or clip art To insert an object into your document position the cursor where you want the object to appear go to the Insert menu and select Object You will have two options 1 As Fixed Object or 2 At Caret Position Either option will pull up the Insert Object dialog box You may select from multiple object types As Fixed Object This option inserts the object in a fixed position Any other adjustments you make to the document will not move the image only the elements around it You have the option to manually move the object by highlighting it and then dragging it to the new location At Caret Position This option inserts the object as a moveable element When
62. ou do not want a space Saving Your Word Prediction Settings When you are done making your adjustments just select the OK button The options that you have selected will automatically be saved When you open up the Word Prediction Options window it will display your current configuration When you close the window the changes you have made will now become the default configuration 68 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Modifying the Libraries Select the View Library button from the Prediction Options window to edit the word libraries This will open up the Edit Word List window When it opens all the words will be displayed in alphabetical order The abridged and unabridged dictionaries contain 80 000 of the most commonly used words In addition to commonly used words it also includes over 1 100 commonly misspelled words and phonetically spelled words Remember the old grammar rule of 1 before e except after c Unfortunately that is only good most of the time For example the word weird is an exception to that rule Word Prediction will pick up these misspellings and provide you with the correct word The same thing will happen if you phonetically spell phone with an f like fone Word Prediction will detect that as well and offer the correct spelling x English Abridged Add Remove MEM gz Show Modified 302 Words Only mia Wards Only 132 ICI Pf ECON Ebt IE iS
63. port bar is to allow you to quickly turn the support you need On and Off as you need it 2 The Talking Grammar Check ammar can also be activated from this bar Highlight the text you want to check and the Grammar Check will check the grammar in just that text Click on the Grammar button without highlighting and it will start from the beginning of the document For more information on the Grammar Check see Using the Grammar Check later in this manual The Support bar can be turned On or Off Turned On is the default setting If you want to turn it Off go to the View menu and select the Support bar option When there is not a check in front of this menu item it is turned Off To turn it back On just select it again 11 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Highlighting and Extracting Text The Talking Word Processor has built in text highlighting Highlighting can be used to mark points of interest topic sentences or as study guides There are four different highlight colors The colors are unique to the Talking Word Processor and will not interfere with other colors in the document For example you have a document created by a different word processor that has a color already in it such as yellow headers If you highlight some of the information in the document the yellow highlight is unique and all other yellows would be ignored The four highlight colors are pink light blue light green and yellow You can set the P
64. prefer to change the foreground and background colors to make reading easier You would do this from the Screen Settings tab To change the colors of your screen just select the desired color from the drop down list To the right of the drop down list you will see the color change as you make your selection This will give you an idea of what your color choices look like There are about 36 different color combinations Zoom Factor You can set a default magnification level This default level will be used whenever you start the Talking Word Processor Once it has been started you can change it but the next time you start the Talking Word Processor it will return to the default Place All Documents Here You can set the default location for opening and saving documents If you set the location every time you click on Save or Open it will look first in this folder 53 The Talking Word Processor User Manual location To set the location click on the Browse button A directory list will open ig Select Path i Cancel be E B My Computer lS My Network Places 2 Recycle Bin dy America Online a SDK Select the drive and the folder you want to be your default location and click OK This will set your default path Tracking and Highlighting Use the Tracking and Highlighting tab to set your reading preferences These features are only noticeable while the Talking Word Processor is reading to you w Readi
65. rs or footers A header is printed in the top margin footer is printed in the bottom margin You can use the same header and footer throughout a document or change the header and footer for part of the document As an example you can use a unique header or footer on the first page or leave the header or footer off the first page You can also use different headers and footers on odd and even pages or for different parts of a document Toolbar A toolbar can contain buttons with images the same images you see next to corresponding menu commands menus or a combination of both The Talking Word Processor includes many built in toolbars that you can display or hide as needed OPER SPSIS KR BiQAAC Oe 8s DO New Open Save Print Preview Spell Cut Copy Paste Unda Find Read Stop Voices Close Help 37 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Support Bar The Support bar contains direct links to features that help with writing It includes the Highlighter Grammar Check Word Prediction Word Repeat and Sentence Repeat This toolbar is displayed by default Sl oe ELIT LIB SIR ISS S 7 amp wW Repeat 5 Repeat Summarize Thesaurus Extract Highlight Color Grammar Options Prediction Options Paragraph Bar The Paragraph bar contains all of the formatting marks for that first paragraph You can change paragraph formatting either by selecting the paragraph mark and setting its formatting attributes before you star
66. s displayed you will see the support tool bar Page 12 Line 26 Col 5 100 NUM 62 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Tile Horizontally This view shows the open windows directly horizontal to one another and the one most recently used will be on top 3 Talking Word Processor File Edit Prediction Yiew Insert Format Read Table Window Help aBgx ee Print Preview Spell Paste Normal y Times New Roman j 7 B Y U oeg New Open Save SPAOes D0 Undo Fede Find Read Stop Voices Close Help fox VEE aA 2 C DEVELOPEMENTATWP 91WHLPTWP DOC e S Ye SJ BS S S ey a S Extract Highlight Color Grammar Options Prediction Options W Repeat SRepeat Summarize 5 SRE ia oo PA i p 4 cat oa Pot on L L L L L L L L L ce bk nae oor Pe ar a al L ao ps e Pra a x a ED ae E u oe Creating a Summary of you document The Talking Word Processor has a built in document summarizer feature This feature allows a reader to reduce the contents of the document to its basic essentials A language modeling system is usedto do the summary giving it a higher degree of accuracy over the formula driven models used in the summary feature of Microsoft Word Because Premier uses language modeling the summary will even be effective on 3 Untitled ATENTA ay S Extract Highlight Color Grammar Options Prediction Options W Repeat SRepeat Summarize a 3 4 5 _ EE
67. t To Exit a Document To Select All the Text To Cut Text To Copy Text To Paste Text To Use Find To Read To Read from the Beginning of the Document To Stop Reading To See a Definition of that Word To Select a Word in the Prediction Word List CTRL N CTRL 0 CTRL S CTRL F4 CTRL W F12 CTRL F12 CTRL P ALT F4 CTRL A CTRL X CTRL C CTRL V CTRL F F6 CTRL HOME F7 Double click a word CTRL The Talking Word Processor User Manual The Talking Word Processor The Talking Word Processor is a full functioning word processor with the added features of Voice and Word Prediction With the added benefit of Voice you can do the following Proofread your own documents Create an Auto summary of your document Hear the words or keys as you type Increase your reading comprehension by seeing and hearing Track the word that is being read Help learn the English language Word Prediction Export Word Files Directly To PDF Files Word View Built in Dictionary Double click any word to hear the definition of that word Talking Grammar Check e Sentence Repeat Reads the entire sentence when it is complete e Graded Word Prediction The Talking Word Processor can work with almost any type of existing word processor The default document style is Microsoft Word However you can use the Rich Text Format style to work with WordPerfect and Microsoft Works documents as well The Talking Word Processor is an MDI style
68. t typing or by typing your text selecting it along with the paragraph mark and then changing the text s formatting When you press Enter to end one paragraph and begin another the resulting new paragraph has the same characteristics as the previous one For example to make all the body paragraphs in your document left aligned and double spaced you only have to set those attributes for the first paragraph Pressing the Enter key carries the formatting over to the next paragraph You can hide or show paragraph marks and other formatting marks by clicking on the Paragraph bar Showing paragraph marks helps you see where each paragraph ends and makes it easier to select the formatting characteristics you want to change PPFP oS Normal arial 12 SE FUls SPaffor ES e Ruler Bar This bar is automatically formatted as shown and allows you to see where you are in your document and on your page To turn off the Ruler function click Ruler on the View Menu 38 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Status Bar The Status bar which is a horizontal area at the bottom of the document window provides information about the current state of what you are viewing in the window and any other contextual information To display the Status bar click the View drop down menu and then select Status bar Item Shows Page The page number of the current page based on the page numbers Section The section number of the page shown
69. t 1s in question and the bottom part will list all of the options In the area between the two windows a message will be displayed This message will be read Click on one of the alternatives in the lower window to have it read The Check Grammar window gives you six different options Change Ignore Ignore All Undo Options and Cancel Ignore Select the Ignore button to skip the current question and go on to the next question Change This will replace the text in question with the selected replacement option from the suggestion window Read Again The Read Again feature will read the sentence again After you have made any changes you can click on the Read Again button and it will read the sentence to you again to hear if it sounds right Read Description If you want to hear the description of the problem again you can click on the Read Description button this will read the description of the problem again Undo If you have selected one of the suggestions and want to go back to the original text select the Undo button Cancel Select the Cancel button to stop the current grammar checking session 34 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Grammar Check Options The Grammar Check Options feature can be accessed by clicking on the Options button from the Grammar Check window or it can be displayed by clicking on the from the Support bar oj xj 4 Syntax errors Y Wordy phrases e Misused words e Redu
70. t and will be applied to the next file added to Text To Audio Selecting the Cancel button will close the window without saving any of the changes Adjust Voice Rate You can adjust the Voice Reading Rate two ways 1 You can adjust it from the Voice window or 2 you can adjust the Voice Rate as it is reading If you are reading a document and you wish for the Talking Word Processor to read faster just press the F12 key Every time the F12 key is pressed it increases the reading speed by one notch Once you have reached the fastest speed it will go to the slowest speed if you press F12 again Keep pressing the F12 key until you get to the speed you want It is important to note that some of the speech is buffered so if you press the F12 key it may take 5 or 6 words before you will notice the increase in 51 The Talking Word Processor User Manual speed It is also important to note that some voices like the AT amp T voices cannot change speed while reading Key Echo This feature allows you to hear the character just pressed To toggle it On or Off click on Key Echo menu item or select 1t and press the Enter key If it is On then it will be turned Off and if it is Off it will be turned On This setting will be saved Word Repeat To use this feature select Word Repeat from the Read drop down menu When selected this feature allows you to hear the word just typed Example Type the word Monkey and then press the
71. t making changes click Cancel ed ES E ES ES ES _ Ez E ae ae E E E r E E EE ES ER Deine Euston Eolas gt Cancel 49 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Read Menu Read O To read a document press the F6 key or click on the Read icon Feed When the reader starts it will begin where your cursor is located To make sure your cursor 1s at the beginning of the document press CTRL HOME The system will continue until it reaches the end of the document To stop reading press the F7 key Press the F6 key to resume where you left off reading There is also an icon of a large mouth on the toolbar When it is selected it will start reading the document from where your cursor 1s located If you want to spell out a word use your Left or Right Arrow The system will read the character that the cursor just moved over If you would like to only read one word at a time and control the speed at which the Talking Word Processor reads just hold down the CTRL key and press your Right or Left Arrow key Every time you press an arrow key it will read the next or prior word Stop Reading To stop the system from reading press the F7 key or click on the Stop icon If you want to continue where you left off reading press the F6 key Read Selected Text Only There are times when you may want to have the Talking Word Processor only read what you have highlighted To only read the
72. th libraries contain the same information with the exception being that most of the offensive vulgar and obscene language has been removed from the abridged dictionary You are not limited to the words provided in the libraries You can edit words add your own words and even delete words you do not want To view the words in the library select the library you want and then select the View Library button 67 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Display List After Word Prediction will provide you with a floating word list As you type the list floats along displaying the predicted words The more characters you type the more accurate the predicted words will be It is rare that the prediction can predict the word you are looking for with just one character That is why we give you the option of displaying the word after you have typed a set number of characters The default is 2 characters but you can make it any value you choose Display number of words in list You can select the number of words being displayed in the word list This is the maximum number of words that will be displayed per page The Talking Word Prediction has two pages the first page background 1s blue and the second page 1s red Place a space after a selected word When you select a word from the prediction word list it will insert the word If you have a check in this check box it will automatically put a space behind the word Leave it blank if y
73. the summary These colors are Yellow Blue Pink and Green These are the same colors used by the Highlight and Extraction feature built into the Talking Word Processor This gives you a big advantage over other summary tools because once the summary is done you can go through and add things to the summary just by selecting the text you want to add and then click on the high light color To remove text from the summary select the highlighted text you want to remove and then select Clear Highlights from the edit menu This is the first summary tool that allows you to quickly modify the summary If you want you can have the summary highlight in one color and then switch colors for your highlight that way you will be able to easily distinguish what was in the original and what was not Once you are done highlighting and would like to create a separate document that contains just the summary use the Extract feature on the Support Toolbar Adjusting the summary size You can control the size of the summary For some document you can create a summary that is only 10 percent of the original document and some you will need a larger summary Adjusting the size of the summary will take a little practice to meet your needs To help with this you have two options you can restrict the summary to be a percentage of the original document or it can be a specific number of sentences Summarize Method f Percentage of Document Number of Sentences
74. then select the Clear Highlights option The colors will be removed It will remove all highlights even if they are in multiple colors Highlight Colors Use the Highlight Colors option to set the default highlight color The color that is selected will remain the default until a new one is selected Extract Highlights The Extract Highlights feature will copy all the highlighted text and place it into a separate document that can be saved or read For more information on how to extract highlights see the Highlighting and Extracting Text section earlier in this manual 28 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Find You can search for a word or part of a word with the Find feature To open the Find dialog box click on the binoculars on the toolbar or hold down CTRL F In the Find What edit box type in the word or partial word you want to search Before you select the Find Next button you have two choices 1 You can select the Match Case check box If this is checked the program will only search for words that match both spelling and case exactly By default the Find feature will start searching from your current location to the end of the document 2 If you want to search from your current location to the beginning of the document make sure the Search Up button is selected Select Find Next to find the first occurrence of the word and then continue clicking on the Find Next button until you have found all occurrences of that
75. tion is the word that the Spell Checker found in the document that it did not recognize To have the computer read the word to you select the Read Original button Replace With Anything typed in the Replace With edit box will be used to replace the Word In Question When you select a word from the list it will appear in the Replace With edit box To hear what you have typed or selected click on the Read Replace button Change When you select the Change button the Word In Question will be replaced with the text that has been entered in the Replace With edit box It will only replace the highlighted word in the document 32 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Change All The Change All button will replace all occurrences of the Word In Question with the word in the Replace With edit box Ignore When you select Ignore it will not replace the Word In Question It will skip only that occurrence of the word Ignore All The Ignore All command will ignore all the occurrences of the Word In Question and will not prompt you each time it finds it Cancel This feature will cancel the spell checking of the document Thesaurus The Talking Word Processor comes with its own Thesaurus To use it simply highlight the word that you want to find a synonym for and then select Thesaurus iA from the Edit menu or click on the thesaurus Pons on the support bar It will open up a dialog box and list the highlighted word in the Looked fiel
76. ve selected one of the suggestions and want to go back to the original text select the Undo button Cancel Select the Cancel button to stop the current grammar checking session Document Statistics When the Grammar Check is complete 1t will display the statistics of your writing It will show the number of words sentences and characters as well as the grade level at which it was written w Your Writing Stats x Tour Writing Statistics The number of words 453 The number of sentences 29 The number of character 2095 Grade Level 11 7 Grammar Check Options The Grammar Check Options window can be accessed by clicking on the Options button from the Check Grammar window or can be displayed by clicking on the ery de Grammar Options icon from the Support bar iol Wordy phrases Redundant phrases Archaic words Stilted words Misused words Number agreement Subect Yerb agreement Verb tense Awkward usage Possessives Vague modifiers Capitalization Jargon Abbreviation form Cliches Mumber form Gender pecific terms Confusing terms Commonly confused words Contractions Punctuation inside quotes Punctuation outside quotes Unbalanced punctuation Unusual word combination Classified singulars Qualified absolutes Double comparisons Double negatives con lla il la ls lala la lalala la 2431133131130 19 The Talking Word Processor User Manual There are 29 different
77. want to remove You can tell what word you are on by the arrow next to the word abating abating ME Jabber abbey 12 To remove the word just select the Remove button Caution This is permanent Once you have removed a word it is gone forever The only way you can get it back is to manually add it back in Using Word Prediction You can use Word Prediction without having to make any changes to the configuration Just turn it on and start typing If you would like to change the prediction settings go to the Prediction menu and select the Options item Turning Word Prediction On or Off By default Word Prediction is Off You need to turn it On before you start using it Once it is turned On it will remain On until it is turned Off again If you have Word Prediction turned On when you exit the Talking Word Processor it will be On the next time you use the Talking Word Processor To turn Word Prediction On go to the Prediction menu in the Talking Word Processor and select the Word Prediction menu option You can also press CTRL W to toggle it On or Off If there is a checkmark in front of the menu option then Word Prediction is On ing Word Processor Untitled 2 Egit Prediction View Insert Form gt PRA Oper Options 73 The Talking Word Processor User Manual How Do Use Word Prediction Once you have Word Prediction turned On all you have to do is start typing As you type the floating Predictio
78. word pause length This is the length of time between spoken words The time can be adjusted from 0 25 to 3 seconds 56 The Talking Word Processor User Manual Word View Tab Word View is a visible window that remains stationary on your computer screen while the document is being read Some people have trouble following a moving cursor or rolling text so we made a stationary window that allows you to focus on a single place on the screen for reading The Word View window will display EACH word that is being read Itis always displayed in the same spot so you do not need to move your eyes It also gives you the ability to change the font size background color and text foreground color independent of the document being read Talking Word Processor C DEVELOPEMENT TWP91 MHLPTWP DOC Eje fx hy File Edit Prediction View Insert Format Read Table Window Help E X OPE SS PROS QP alOgs Do New Open Save Print Preview Spell Cut Copy Paste Undo Red Find Read top Voices Close Help Normal y Times New Roman B 7 U z Z 0 E l Ezre va a A m m ge Extract Highlight Color Grammar Ege KA a W 5 Z marize extracted information as close as possible to the origins forfttin Creating a Summary y Word View Window nae The Talking Word Processor has er to a reduce the contents of the docume o the summary giving it a higher degree feature of Microsoft Word Because Pren n fictio
79. youts Cascade This shows the open windows in drop down layers with the most recently used application window in the front E Talking Word Processor File Edit Prediction Yiew Insert Format Read Table Window Help OPA SSP X e Qr aloes na New Open Save Print Preview Spell Paste Undo Pes Find Read Stop Voices Close Help Normal y Times New Roman y 10 7 B ZU 100 S tee ea Jb de yp a N Grammar Options E fen won les e H SR A S 4 ey Extract Highlight Color Grammar Prediction Options WRepeat SRepeat Summarize A ciety We tee Ue oe ee ook Gee foe Poe fee Ete ee ee ie ite gee Pe at L L L L L L L foe 4 L EN T 5 E ES M w ps Creating a Summary of you document The Talking Word Processor has a built in document summarizer feature This feature allows a reader to reduce the contents of the document to its basic essentials A language modeling system is usedto do the summary giving it a higher degree of accuracy over the formula driven models used in the summary feature of Microsoft Word Because Premier uses language modeling the summary will even be effective on fiction that does not always have the formal paragraph structure used in non fiction writings How to summarize a document The summary feature is built into the Talking Word Processor so you must start the Talking Word Processor Once the Talking Word Processor has loaded open your document Once the document i

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