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- KANSYS, INC.
- YOUR SOUND ALTERNATIVE
- 1016 Ohio Street
- Lawrence, KS 66044
- Telephone: 913-843-0351 or 800-279-4880
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- PROVOX Version 3.14
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- PROVOX is a full-featured screen review program which runs
- on any IBM or Compatible personal computer. It requires less
- than 29K of your computer's memory, which makes it one of the
- smallest full-featured screen-review programs available. The
- software supports a variety of speech synthesizers including the
- Artic SynPhonix 200/210/215--(running SONIX-2); R.C. Systems
- Double Talk PC; Votrax Votalker IB and PSS; Personal Data Systems
- Audapter; Echo GP/PC, as well as the line of internal Echo boards
- for IBM and compatible computers; the Accent line from Aicom;
- SpeakEasy System; and the Blazie Engineering Braille 'n Speak and
- Braille Blazer. Moreover, you can switch among any of these
- synthesizers at any time. Please inquire about the support of
- additional synthesizers, such as the DEC-Talk, which is coming
- soon.
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- All PROVOX commands begin with one press of the slash key,
- which eliminates conflicts in the use of keys for other purposes.
- To enter a true slash, you simply press the key twice. PROVOX has
- a direct mode and a review mode; however, there are so many
- convenient features available in direct mode that you may rarely
- need to use review mode. Thanks to its unique design, PROVOX
- is adept at tracking the system cursor in difficult situations
- including Local Area and Wide Area Networks and on sluggish IBM
- and other mainframes.
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- Even in direct mode, PROVOX lets you review the screen,
- including the letter, word, or line containing the cursor, the
- entire screen, or any rectangular section of it, called a
- subscreen. Some subscreens are permanently defined, and you may
- define others to meet specific needs. The permanent subscreens
- and ten of your own definition are always available in direct
- mode with a single keystroke. Ten user-defined subscreens form a
- screen bank. You may switch among ten screen banks with a two
- keystroke PROVOX command. In addition to reading pre-defined
- portions of the screen, subscreens can also filter your data for
- the presence or absence of any video attribute. This filtering
- can be done with foreground and/or background colors and
- attributes. All ten screen banks (i.e., 100 subscreen
- definitions) together with other PROVOX parameters may be saved
- to and loaded from a config file. A utility program allows the
- automatic loading of any Config File and Screen Bank from within
- a batch file. The screen can be searched forward or backward for
- a string of up to 9 characters, or for an attribute change. A
- new feature, called Auto Alert, allows you to monitor any
- subscreen. PROVOX will notify you when a change has been made to
- that subscreen. It will either read you the new information
- automatically, beep when a change is made, or both. Another new
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- feature called "Auto Ignore" allows you to specify any subscreen
- to be excluded from speech output. Further, it is possible to
- make PROVOX interrupt ongoing speech with any keystroke, a
- feature that fast typists and those persons who are familiar with
- their software will appreciate. Finally, two utility programs,
- "QUIET" and "SPEAK" make it possible to easily remove and restore
- PROVOX without rebooting your computer.
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- The PROVOX program is available in a Demo Version which runs
- normally for 60 minutes at a time, then ceases to recognize
- PROVOX commands. Both the demo and permanent packages come with
- a disk-based tutorial. This tutorial will allow you to explore
- your PC's keyboard safely, learn PROVOX commands, and test
- yourself along the way. Further, in the demo version, the one
- hour time limit is suspended when you are using the tutor
- program.
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- TURBO BRAILLE (TBRL)
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- Turbo Braille is a computer program which makes it possible
- for anyone to produce formatted Grade 2 English braille whether
- they know about braille or not. It does this because it accepts
- word processor files used by WordPerfect 4.2 or 5.0, Wordstar
- Professional Version 4.0, 5.x, and 6.0 or standard ASCII text
- files formatted for printing. The program allows the user to go
- directly from any supported file type to a braille document.
- Turbo Braille will run on any MS/DOS computer.
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- Users of Turbo Braille can generate Grade II, Grade I, or
- computer braille files. For more precise formatting and
- editing, "BIF" files (Braille Intermediate Files) can be
- generated. "BIF" files contain the original text interspersed
- with simple "dot commands" that control the formatting of the
- braille page. Even without this feature, Turbo Braille does
- automatic centering, paragraphing, page numbering, and creates
- italics to reflect print enhancements such as boldface or
- underlined text. Special commands in Turbo Braille permit
- switching among grades of braille in mid-sentence, or even in
- mid-word if desired. Print and braille page numbers are also
- supported. The rules employed by the program are stored in a
- separate text file and are read into the program when it
- executes. Thus, the rules are easily upgraded.
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- TURBO BRAILLE offers speed, flexibility, compatibility with
- your word processor or editor, reliability and ease-of-use, all
- for a reasonable cost.
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- Auto Braille
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- Auto Braille is essentially a memory-resident version of
- Turbo Braille. Once run, Auto Braille will automatically
- intercept any output that your word processor or other software
- sends to your printer. It will then format it for braille
- printing, translate it into Grade 2 braille and send it to your
- braille embosser.
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- Auto Braille uses the same translation rules and many of the
- same commands as those used by Turbo Braille. A companion
- program, Auto Braille Commander, (ABC) will allow you to control
- auto Braille's parameters from the DOS Prompt or from within a
- batch file.
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- Auto Braille occupies 48K of conventional memory unless your
- computer has expanded memory, when it will only take 2K of
- conventional and 48k of expanded.
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- Auto Braille will allow you to automatically obtain braille
- output from most software you use, without exiting that software.
- You can produce grade II braille copies of your computer's screen
- at any time with the DOS "Print Screen" key. The program does
- this by intercepting all data sent to the PRN device, normally
- LPT1. You can control where Auto Braille gets its input from and
- where it then sends its output.
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- NAMES
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- "NAMES" is an easy-to-use program which will allow you to
- keep track of names, addresses, phone numbers, and identifying
- information called "Tags" on everyone you know. It will run on
- any IBM or compatible computer and will work with your favorite
- screen review program and speech synthesizer. "NAMES" is
- designed to be equally usable by blind and sighted computer
- users. It sports an attractive and efficient screen layout while
- presenting critical information through normal DOS channels, to
- ensure compatibility with screen review programs.
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- "NAMES" can display information to your computer's screen or
- print out address information onto a variety of label sizes or
- individual envelopes. Each entry is defined by a unique Key of
- any length. Keys are used for sorting data. All fields,
- including Name, two address lines, city, state, zip, home and
- work phone numbers, and up to nine optional Tags, are pre-
- defined, so all you have to do is start entering data. The size
- of your lists is limited only by the size of your computer's
- memory. We have successfully used the program with lists of 1000
- entries and more.
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- The program also permits you to load and save multiple
- lists, mark or unmark entries, and retrieve entries by Tags or
- Keys. We think that you'll find "NAMES" to be all the list
- management software you'll ever need.
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- SHAREWARE PROGRAMS
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- Kansys, Inc., distributes two shareware programs, RALPH THE
- READER and WATCHDOG. RALPH will allow you to easily read any
- WordPerfect, Wordstar, or ASCII file. You can search the file
- forward or backward for any character string, or immediately jump
- to any point within the file. The program is designed to work
- well with all screen review programs. WATCHDOG is a utility
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- which provides you with auditory feedback when activity occurs to
- your computer's screen. It can also monitor any LPT or COM port
- or any software interrupt.
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- Both programs are available on a variety of local
- bulletinboards and information services including Compuserve and
- GENIE. The programs are shareware and you are encouraged to copy
- them for your friends or to upload them to your local
- bulletinboards.
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- ORDERING INFORMATION
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- All Kansys, Inc., programs are available on 3.5 and 5.25
- inch disks and come with braille, print, and disk manuals.
- Kansys, Inc. now accepts Visa and Mastercard. Our products are
- also available from Enabling Technologies of Stuart, Florida as
- well as from some of its dealers. You can contact us at:
- Kansys, Inc.
- 1016 Ohio Street
- Lawrence, KS 66044
- 800-279-4880 or 913-843-0351
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- PROVOX (screen review software) $295.00
- Double Talk PC with deluxe speaker $289.00
- Artic Technologies SynPhonix 210 Speech Synthesizer $395.00
- Amiga SpeakEasy System, (speech synthesizer) $795.00
- Audapter , (speech synthesizer) $895.00
- TURBO BRAILLE (braille translator) $249.00
- Auto Braille (memory-resident braille translator) $195.00
- Turbo Braille/Auto Braille Combination $395.00
- NAMES (name and address management software) $79.00
- RALPH THE READER (file reading program) $10.00--shareware
- WATCHDOG (screen monitoring utility) $10.00--shareware
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- Free demonstration versions of all KANSYS, Inc. commercial
- software are available. Please contact us or one of our dealers.
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- Payment or purchase order must accompany your order.
- Residents of Kansas add 5.25% sales tax to the prices shown
- above.
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