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- Silver Xpress Mail System V4.01SE (Speech Edition)
- (c) copyright 1992-94 Santronics Software
-
- History
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- 4.01 - Added Option to Not detect Vocal Eyes automatically. Some systems
- failed when Vocal Eyes was not available.
-
- This documentation has three sections:
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- 1) Silver Xpress Speech Friendly Interface Features.
- 2) How to Install Silver Xpress.
- 3) How to Use the Help System in Silver Xpress.
-
- NOTE: Only when reading mail is there a special help key. The space bar
- will tell you the special speech friendly interface keys.
-
- NOTE: Vocal Eyes user, if you are using or planning to use the protected
- mode version of Silver Xpress, please note that we have found that VOCAL
- EYES cannot be loaded in HIGH memory. There is no problem when using the
- real mode version.
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- Silver Xpress, The technology leader in Off-line Mail Systems! I love
- to hear your input and suggestions. Remember, I can only do this with
- your help and support.
-
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- 1.0 Advance Speech Friendly Interface Feature Summary
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- Silver Xpress Speech Edition Supports any speech adapter system
- which works with BIOS screen writes. In addition, Silver Xpress has
- direct support for the VOCAL EYES speech system for sharper speech
- operations.
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- 1.1 Built-in option to use Talking Cursors for all menus, any pick list,
- any configuration forms, hypertext help, and reader. If not used,
- it works with your own talking cursor system by at least speaking
- the first option or item of each component. In otherwords, Silver
- Xpress allows you to keep your own talking cursor tracking system
- and you STILL are able understand EXACTLY where you are at without
- a review mode. However, the talking cursor system in Xpress is
- superb in itself, and you do not need to turn on your Talking Cursor
- System.
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- 1.2 New reader scroll bar. Complete Cursor movement to allow easy reading
- of the message or parts of the message.
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- 1.3 Configurable Speech strings are various sessions. You can increase or
- decrease the verbosity to get more information or make things
- clearer.
-
- - Menus.
- - packet loader
- - pick list
- - message header
- - Yes and No Prompts, Multiple Choice Fields
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- 1.4 Complete Talking Help System, including a speech friendly hypertext
- help based system.
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- 1.5 New advanced TALKING QUOTER SYSTEM to assist in telling you WHO SAID
- WHAT in quoted mail. This feature will INCREASE your productivity
- in reading mail.
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- 1.6 New Advanced READER GRAMMER MODE to read mail by words, sentences or
- by paragraphs.
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- With the new READER GRAMMER MODE and TALKING QUOTER SYSTEM, you
- now have TWO new ways to read your mail - Both guaranteed to
- make SENSE of the BARRAGE of TEXT sent to speech adapters.
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- 1.7 The new XPRESS speech friendly system also works under DesqView!!
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- 2.0 How to First Install the Speech Friendly Interface in Silver Xpress?
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- To use the Silver Xpress Speech Friendly Interface (SFI), first start
- the reader by passing the switch -SFI.
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- XPREAD -SFI
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- If you are using the Vocal-Eyes System, Xpress will automatically
- detect it and automatically turn on the Speech Friendly System. The
- -SFI is not required.
-
- The reader, by default, will use its OWN TRACKING CURSOR so TURN
- YOURS OFF. If you don't, you may hear double speech of menu items,
- etc.
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- If you want to change the Speech Friendly Interface OPTIONS, GO INTO
- THE CONFIGURATION VIDEO OPTIONS and POP UP THE SPEECH FRIENDLY
- INTERFACE OPTIONS FORMS.
-
- 2.1 Using the Environment String SFI
-
- If the the SFI environment string is detected, Xpress will look
- for the word ON and turn on the speech friendly system. For
- example;
-
- SET SFI=ON
-
- If you have VOCAL EYES, it may not work right with the PROTECTED MODE
- VERSION OF THE READER. The Protected mode version has a P after the
- version number, such as Version 3.02P or Version 4.00P. If this is
- the case, you can use the BIOS keyword as part of the SFI environment
- string. This will tell Xpress to not use VOCAL eyes for speaking.
- For example:
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- SET SFI=ON BIOS
-
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- 3.0 Try using the HELP system. It will speak to you. The help in Silver
- Xpress is hypertext-based help. This means KEYWORDS, if any, are
- highlighted, and more help will pop up if you PRESS ENTER on one
- of these keywords. Sometimes there is only one keyword or none.
- If there are keywords, the help system will tell you. For example,
- after it reads the help screen, it may say something like:
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- Keywords Available beginning with option WHAT EVER.
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- If you hear this, use the up or down arrows to hear the keyword
- options and, if you like, press ENTER to hear more information.
-
- There is a SPECIAL HELP in the READER SECTION by hitting the
- SPACEBAR. EVERYWHERE ELSE, F ONE IS THE HELP KEY.
-
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- 4.0 Modifying the string Prompts.
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- The file XPREAD.SFI has many string prompts that can be changed by you.
- This allows you to change the verbosity of the speech in Silver Xpress.
-
- The keywords in the brackets must in upper case and must begin in
- column 1.
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