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VOCAL-EYES
VOICE ACCESS SYSTEM FOR IBM PCs AND COMPATIBLES (MS-DOS)
So you've heard a
rumor that DOS is DEAD, huh? Why not spice it up a little with one of the
big boys that helped make the Adaptive Technology Revolution what it is
today? Vocal-Eyes was designed to enhance career opportunities for the
visually-impaired by providing fast and flexible access to the wealth of
software used by business and professionals. Important independence and
productivity gains can be realized by integrating Vocal-Eyes' many voice
features into almost any word processor, data base management program, or
spreadsheet. "Voice interactiveness" can be added to such
popular programs as WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. Working in tandem with
any standard voice synthesizer, Vocal-Eyes offers selective voice
responses that can be tailored to the exact needs of the job.
Vocal-Eyes contains a veritable treasure house of advanced voice features,
perhaps the most powerful being the ability it gives you to customize the
program to fit your individual needs and requirements. Far beyond the
basic ability to set up custom applications environments, Vocal-Eyes can
be given a "personality" that incorporates the entirety of its
command structure. You will without doubt discover Vocal-Eyes to be the
most flexible tool yet for fitting in to the way you like to work.
FEATURES
- NO macros required but is compatible with commercially available macro
processors
- Extensive light-bar tracking with advanced automatic mode
- Automatic box read
- Autoloading automatically loads desired voice environment
- Full support for video attributes and all video systems
- Easy-to-use pull-down menu system for setup and control - Up to 9 voice
environments available at a single keystroke
- The ability to load and save voice environments directly from
Vocal-Eyes. No need to exit to the operating system
- Cursor routing
- Extensive find capabilities
- 10 definable markers
- Standard Review mode and Interactive Review modes
- Vocal-Eyes not only works well with speech, but is also visually
appealing and easy to use for sighted users
- Screen cut and paste
- Utilities to convert your voice configuration files to and from an ASCII
text file
- On-line help
- Optional feature which allows compatibility with DragonDictate and IBM
VoiceType. This allows both voice input and voice output.
No need for a monitor or keyboard.
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- 20 Standard windows
- Windows can be either Neutral, Speak, Silent or Float
- Any of the 20 windows can be read with a single keystroke
- Each window can be chained, setup to speak and spell, associated with a
specific color and more.
30 Extended windows
- Along with the 20 standard windows, Vocal-Eyes allows an additional 30
windows which can be read at any time. Like all windows, these can be
setup from a single character up to the full screen.
26 Hyperactive windows
- Hyperactive windows allow programs which address the screen directly to
speak. You can monitor for: Any change, any text change, any attribute
change, exact match, exact text match, exact attribute match, different
match, different text match, different attribute match, includes string,
does not include string, contains specified color, does not contain
specified color, contains cursor, or does not contain cursor.
- Once triggered, you can execute any three of eight options: speak any
window, speak specified message, speak box, speak light bar, activate any
window, load disk .SET, load RAM .SET or beep.
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- Setup the speech rate, pitch, tone, volume and punctuation independently
for screen and keyboard - Each voice can be turned independently on or off
- Capitalization alert and Format alert
- Keyboard can voice characters or words
- Numbers can be spoken as digits or full numbers
- Word exception dictionary for mispronounced words - Character dictionary
to define exactly how to pronounce a character
- Key label dictionary to define any keypress
- Attribute dictionary for full color support
- Interrupt or silence speech with the press of a key. A tone will sound
when the information is done printing to the screen.
Learning Disabilities With certain synthesizers, Vocal-Eyes can be
instructed to highlight each word as it is being read from the screen. The
user can simply inverse the spoken word or specify both the foreground and
background colors. This visual feedback along with the standard audio
feedback allows those with learning disabilities to comprehend at a much
greater level.
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These are Vocal-Eyes commands only. The underlying applications program
will not be disturbed with these keystrokes.
- Over 70 assignable hot key speech features
- Hot keys to read previous, current and next for character, word, line,
sentence, and paragraph
- Four hot keys to route your applications cursor backwards and forwards
by sentence and paragraph
- Hot key to read to end of document
- Hot key to read the current box on the screen
- Hot key to read the date and time
- Bypass hot key which allows the next Vocal-Eyes command to be ignored so
the underling application can receive the keystroke
- Each hot key can be assigned the keystroke of your choice
- Hot keys which are of no interest can be setup as undefined Cursoring
keys
These are applications keys. You simply tell Vocal-Eyes what you want
voiced after the application acts on the command. Your choices are:
character, previous word, word, next word, line, sentence, paragraph, to
end of line, light bar, box, cursor position, field data, field name,
field name and data, prior character, current window, any of the ten
windows, activate any of the ten windows, or load a RAM .SET. For example,
Control-Right Arrow in WordPerfect would be setup to read the current
word. You can even link two of these options for a single keystroke. A
total of 46 cursoring keys can be defined in this way.
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A step-by-step instruction guide is supplied in print, on audio cassette,
and on disk. This documentation gives all needed information through well
over 200 pages of tutorially-styled examples.
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Computers/Synthesizers: Vocal-Eyes runs on all IBM and IBM compatible
computers running at all speeds. Virtually any commercially available
voice synthesizer can be used. Specific support is provided for the
Sounding Board, Speak-Out, Accent, Apollo, Artic, Votalker, Audapter, ASP,
Braille 'n Speak, DECtalk, Portable DECtalk, DECtalk PC/Express,
DoubleTalk PC & LT, Echo PC, PCII, PC+, MC and 1000, Keynote, LiteTalk,
MultiVoice, Prose 4000, Personal speech system, Reading Edge, and
VoiceCard. A configurable generic driver is also supplied for synthesizers
not directly supported.
System Requirements:
- By default, Vocal-Eyes requires approximately 54K of DOS RAM. This
value can range anywhere from about 50K to 64K depending on several
parameters.
- Vocal-Eyes will work in Extended memory. If loaded into extended
memory, only 4K of DOS RAM is required. Vocal-Eyes can also be loaded
high.
-One high density 3-1/2" disk drive is required. Hard disks are
supported.
- Vocal-Eyes is not copy protected.
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