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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCING VOCAL-EYES!
- 1.1 Welcome to Vocal-Eye!
- 1.2 What's in your Vocal-Eyes package
- 1.3 This manuaL
- 1.4 First things firsT
- 1.5 An open letter to macro users
- 1.6 Summery
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- SECTION TWO: INSTALLING AND LOADING VOCAL-EYES
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The Sounding Board software
- 2.3 Installing Vocal-Eyes
- 2.3.1 The Vocal-Eyes program files
- 2.3.2 Copying the Sounding Board software
- 2.3.3 Vocal-Eyes synthesizer device drivers
- 2.4 Starting up Vocal-Eyes
- 2.4.1 Loading your speech software
- 2.4.2 Loading the device driver
- 2.4.3 Loading Vocal-Eyes
- 2.5 A note about BATCH files
- 2.6 Taking advantage of extended and expanded memory
- 2.7 Summary
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- SECTION THREE: A FIRST VISIT WITH VOCAL-EYES
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Making it talk
- 3.3 How it works
- 3.4 Introducing a few basic Vocal-Eyes hot keys
- 3.5 The cursor keys
- 3.6 Vocal-Eyes' special Review Mode
- 3.7 A few more Review Mode command keys
- 3.8 The F1 help screen
- 3.9 Vocal-Eyes' "typewriter" bell
- 3.10 Summary
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- SECTION FOUR: INTRODUCING THE VOCAL-EYES VOICE CONTROL PANEL
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Accessing the control panel
- 4.3 The help option
- 4.4 The "screen" menu
- 4.4.1 Screen voice on/off
- 4.4.2 Speech rate
- 4.4.3 Screen pitch and volume
- 4.4.4 Screen tone
- 4.4.5 The punctuation submenu
- 4.4.6 A special note to Sounding Board users
- 4.4.7 Numbers on/off
- 4.4.8 The repeat filter
- 4.4.9 The repeat value
- 4.4.10 Blank lines
- 4.4.11 Signal cursor position
- 4.4.12 Attribute changes
- 4.4.13 Auto box read
- 4.4.14 Screen activity tone
- 4.4.15 Port intercept
- 4.4.16 BIOS TTY intercept
- 4.5 The "keyboard" menu
- 4.5.1 Keyboard voice on/off
- 4.5.2 Speech rate, pitch, tone, volume and punctuatioN
- 4.5.3 Special keys voicing
- 4.5.4 Voicing of capital letters
- 4.5.5 Key click off/on
- 4.5.6 Interruptability
- 4.5.7 Word mode off/on
- 4.6 Moving around in the menus
- 4.7 Resetting menu options to a known state
- 4.8 Summary
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- SECTION FIVE: SAVING YOUR WORK
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The .SET file
- 5.3 The files menu
- 5.4 Loading .SET files through the command line
- 5.5 Where Vocal-Eyes looks for your .SET files
- 5.6 Vocal-Eyes' default .SET file
- 5.7 A brief description of autoloading
- 5.8 Summary
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- SECTION SIX: CURSOR KEYS AND HOT KEYS
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Defining the cursor keys
- 6.3 The cursoring menu
- 6.3.1 Defining your own cursoring keys
- 6.3.2 More about the cursoring menu
- 6.4 The hot keys menu
- 6.5 More hot keys
- 6.6 The special ` bypass command key
- 6.7 Summary
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- SECTION SEVEN: VOCAL-EYES' 10 STANDARD SCREEN WINDOWS
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Selecting and defining windows
- 7.3 Another way to define screen windows
- 7.4 The selected "active" window
- 7.5 The "speak" window
- 7.6 The "silent" window
- 7.7 The "neutral" window
- 7.8 One more look at window precedence
- 7.9 A brief look at "float" windows
- 7.10 Reading a temporary window
- 7.11 A few more window commands
- 7.12 Summary
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- SECTION EIGHT: POP UP WINDOWS, VIDEO ATTRIBUTES AND LIGHT BARS
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The read box hot key
- 8.3 Autobox read
- 8.4 Screen attributes
- 8.4.1 The attrib-ASCII hot key
- 8.4.2 Reading normal, reverse, blinking, underlined and
- highlighted text
- 8.4.3 The user definable attribute read hot key
- 8.4.4 The F1 color palate
- 8.4.5 Reading screen attributes as they change
- 8.4.6 Making good use of read attribute hot keys
- 8.5 Light bar tracking
- 8.5.1 What is a light bar?
- 8.5.2 How it works
- 8.5.3 Setting light bar tracking
- 8.5.4 Using the color palate
- 8.5.5 Tracking 10 different light bars
- 8.5.6 The read bar hot key
- 8.5.7 Setting light bar tracking to "auto"
- 8.6 Summary
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- SECTION NINE: A POTPOURRI OF FEATURES
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The voice control panel's "general" menu
- 9.2.1 Voice on/off
- 9.2.2 Hot keys on/off
- 9.2.3 Cursor keys on/off
- 9.2.4 Cursor tracking
- 9.2.5 Light bar tracking on/off/auto
- 9.2.6 Character dictionary on/off
- 9.2.7 Key label dictionary on/off
- 9.2.8 Review window
- 9.2.9 Set bell position
- 9.2.10 Hyperactive status on/off
- 9.2.11 ASCII field name separator
- 9.2.12 Fast review
- 9.2.13 Sound effects internal speaker/off/sounding board
- 9.2.14 Set sound duration
- 9.2.15 Cursor delay
- 9.2.16 Set trigger delay
- 9.2.17 Route/write delay
- 9.2.18 Hyperactive check delay
- 9.2.19 Revector check on/off
- 9.3 The review mode find command
- 9.3.1 The "F" find command
- 9.3.2 Searching for control and extended graphics characters
- 9.3.3 Searching for video attributes
- 9.3.4 Searching for the next different attribute
- 9.4 Adjusting the up and down arrows in review mode
- 9.5 Setting and using markers
- 9.6 Using markers for window coordinates
- 9.7 Cursor routing
- 9.8 The synthesizer channel
- 9.9 Block write
- 9.10 Summary
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- SECTION TEN: THE VE CURSOR
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 VE cursor versus review mode
- 10.3 The VE cursor
- 10.4 VE cursor commands
- 10.5 Examples of the VE cursor
- 10.6 Summary
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- SECTION ELEVEN: CHARACTER DICTIONARIES AND KEY LABELING
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Character dictionaries
- 11.2.1 Creating the character dictionary
- 11.2.2 Saving your character dictionary
- 11.2.3 Loading your character dictionary
- 11.2.4 The character dictionary buffer
- 11.2.5 The "dictionary only" option
- 11.2.6 Possible character dictionary errors
- 11.3 Key labeling
- 11.3.1 Creating the key label dictionary
- 11.3.2 The .KEY key label dictionary file
- 11.3.3 Possible key label dictionary errors
- 11.3.4 Putting it together
- 11.4 The difference between the character and key label dictionaries
- 11.5 Summary
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- SECTION TWELVE: MORE ABOUT .SET FILES
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The .SET file library
- 12.3 The .SET file buffer
- 12.4 Loading multiple .SET files
- 12.5 The "load RAM .SET" hot key
- 12.6 What happens
- 12.7 More about command line parameters
- 12.8 Loading from RAM using the command line
- 12.9 Where Vocal-Eyes saves and loads .SET files
- 12.10 RAM location menu
- 12.11 Autoloading
- 12.12 Summary
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- SECTION THIRTEEN: HYPERACTIVE WINDOWS
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Windows A-E
- 13.3 What hyperactive windows can look for
- 13.4 Hyperactive window commands
- 13.5 Setting up the hyperactive windows
- 13.6 Typing in hyperactive windows
- 13.7 Global enabling and disabling of all hyperactive windows
- 13.8 Hyperactive check delay
- 13.9 Hyperactive window example
- 13.10 Potential problems with hyperactive windows
- 13.11 Summary
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- SECTION FOURTEEN: ADVANCED OPTIONS
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Float windows
- 14.3 More options for the standard windows
- 14.3.1 Window color
- 14.3.2 Chain reading
- 14.3.3 Speak and spell
- 14.3.4 Setting up a window definition
- 14.4 Cursor tracking
- 14.4.1 Cursor type
- 14.4.2 Use light bar as cursor yes/no
- 14.4.3 Bar track status normal/specified cursor
- 14.4.4 Bar track specified read
- 14.4.5 Bar track normal read
- 14.4.6 ASCII character
- 14.4.7 Foreground
- 14.4.8 Background
- 14.5 Video clipboard buffer
- 14.6 Auto lightbar buffer
- 14.7 Overlays
- 14.8 Loading Vocal-Eyes in high memory
- 14.9 Summary
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- SECTION FIFTEEN: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 The program itself
- 15.3 Creating the basic windows
- 15.4 The WordPerfect cursor address
- 15.5 Assigning voice features to cursoring keys
- 15.6 The WP.KEY key labeling dictionary
- 15.7 Checking your spelling
- 15.8 Making use of WordPerfect's colors
- 15.9 Other setup options
- 15.10 Summary
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- SECTION SIXTEEN: USING A MACRO PROCESSOR WITH VOCAL-EYES
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 The MACRO.COM program
- 16.3 The macro toggle
- 16.4 A few things to remember
- 16.5 Three examples
- 16.5.1 Backing up your work
- 16.5.2 The DOS shell
- 16.5.3 Getting back
- 16.6 Summary
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- APPENDIX A: HOTKEYS
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- APPENDIX B: REVIEW MODE COMMANDS
- Standard Window commands
- Hyperactive Window commands
- Cursoring commands
- Find commands
- Attribute commands
- Marker commands
- Block commands
- Miscellaneous commands
- Exiting commands
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- APPENDIX C: VE CURSOR COMMANDS
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- APPENDIX D: VOICE CONTROL PANEL OPTIONS
- Screen
- Keyboard
- Hotkeys
- Cursoring
- General
- Files
- Help
- Exit
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- APPENDIX E: COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
- VE.COM one time startup parameters
- VE.COM anytime parameters
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- APPENDIX F: SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS
- Sounding Board
- Non Sounding Board users
- Exception dictionary
- Refresh command
- ACCENT.COM
- APOLLO.COM
- ARTIC.COM
- AUDAPTER.COM
- BNSPEAK.COM
- DECTALK.COM
- DBLTALK.COM
- ECHOPC.COM
- INAPOLLO.COM
- INTECHO.COM
- PDECTALK.COM
- PROSE4.COM
- PSSA.COM
- PSSB.COM
- VEASP.COM
- GENERIC.COM
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- APPENDIX G: VE_SET UTILITY
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- APPENDIX H: KEY LABEL ABBREVIATIONS
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- APPENDIX I: EDITING INPUT PROMPTS
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- APPENDIX J: PREDEFINED .SET AND .KEY FILES
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