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3f. FILES MENU - allows you to: - Change default drive or dorectory for Hearsay functions. - Load a dictionary you have created with the speech editor. - View all files or just the Hearsay files on a disk. Because Hearsay needs to operate at the same time as other DOS programs, it can only access files when DOS happens to be in the right spot. If DOS is not ready to access the disk, the Main Menu will show a choice for F7, RETURN WHEN DOS IS NOT BUSY. If DOS is ready to access the disk, F7 will not appear. The Files Menu cannot be accessed while the F7 prompt is displayed. To clear the DOS busy condition, select F7 RETURN WHEN DOS IS NOT BUSY and answer Y to the EXIT HEARSAY AND WAIT? question. The Hearsay menus will disappear for an instant, then return without the F7 choice. The Files Menu can then be selected to display the directory or load a dictionary file. FILES MENU CHOICES F1 - CHANGE DRIVE This function key allows you to select the disk drive you want to perform file operations on. You will be prompted to press the drive letter. F2 - CHANGE DIRECTORY By pressing [F2], you can select the disk directory to perform file operations on. You will be prompted to type in the directory's name followed by [ENTER]. NOTE: F3 and F4 are not active and will be used for future use. F5 - LOAD DICTIONARY FILE Pressing [F3] allows you to load a dictionary file you have previously created and saved. You will be prompted to enter a filename of up to eight characters, with NO extension, followed by [ENTER]. The dictionary file will be retrieved from the previously selected directory and disk drive. You must have the proper disk containing the selected file in the drive. F6 - LIST FILES IN DIRECTORY To view the directory of a disk, press [F4]. All filenames on the disk will be displayed one screen at a time. Pressing [SPACE] will give you the next screen full of filenames Pressing [ESC] returns you to the Files Menu F7 - LIST HEARSAY FILES To see just Hearsay files on a disk, press [F5]. Speech Dictionary files will have an extension of ".SD2" and ".SD3" for speech versions 2 and 3 respectively. 4. DICTIONARY AND DICTIONARY USAGE Hearsay's speech can be customized by creating an exception dictionary. When such a dictionary is loaded, any word listed in it will be pronounced as it is defined there rather than by Hearsay's standard rules. A Hearsay dictionary is a list of words with customized phoneme (Pronounced "foe-neems") strings, giving each a customized pronounciation. A complete list of all phoemes used by Hearsay is given in Appendix D. Before you can create a dictionary, you need some understanding of the process of speech synthesis. In the English language the same letter may be pronounced in many different ways, and Hearsay uses a complex set of rules to interpret written words into phonetic elements called phonemes, which are then spoken. While these rules are usually correct, there are many exceptions within the language, and preferences among listeners. You may wish to change Hearsay's pronounciation of certain words, or expanded abbreviations (Mr. to Mister, for instance). If every letter of the alphabet had only one sound, then speech synthesis would be simple. We would just send each letter to the Hearsay Gold board and Hearsay would say that letter's sound. But because a single letter can have many different sounds (For instance, the letter "E" in 'set' has a different sound than in 'seat') we need to translate each word into a set of sounds that create the correct pronounciation. We string the phonemes together and new pronounciations are created to get the right sound. Hearsay exception dictionaries are created with the Hearsay speech editor program (SP-EDIT) which is included on the Hearsay disk. When a dictionary is loaded, (F3 in the Files Menu) Hearsay checks each word to see if it is listed in the dictionary before attempting to apply its pronounciation rules. If the word is listed, the dictionary pronounciation is used. 4A. USING THE SPEECH EDITOR The SP-EDIT program is used to create or modify a Hearsay dictionary. NOTE: The dictionary program (SP-EDIT) must be run seperately from the Hearsay program. You must unhook Hearsay or reboot the computer before running the dictionary, and reboot it again afterward before running Hearsay. Otherwise, the programs will interfere with each other. 4B. TO CREATE OR MODIFY A DICTIONARY 1. Unhook Hearsay or reboot the computer to be sure Hearsay is unloaded. 2. Then run the SPEECHV2 or SPEECHV3 program. 3. When DOS returns, run SP-EDIT and indicate (When prompted) whether you are running Version 2 or Version 3. 4. When you are asked for port assignments of the Hearsay board enter 34, or whatever your Hearsay port switches are set to (See Hardware Installation - BOOK I). 5. The Speech Editor menu will then be displayed. The Speech Editor menu has three windows, two on the right and one on the bottom, and a list of commands on the left side. The window at the upper right is the WORD window, where you will enter the text to be converted to phonemes. The middle window is the PHONEME window where you can edit the phoneme string. The bottom window is the STATUS window, for informational and error messages. The Hearsay Speech Editor Menu is controlled by the function keys, as described below. A sample dictionary building session is given in Appendix C. F1 - CREATE / EDIT WORDS Press [F1] to bring the cursor to the WORD window. Type the word you want edit the pronouciation of. F2 - CONVERT WORD TO PHONETICS Press [F2] to convert the word in the top window to a phonetic representation of that word in the second window. This will show you how the word is presently being pronounced. F3 - CREATE / EDIT PHONETICS Press [F3] to edit the phonetics listed for your word. The editor functions in INSERT mode - instead of writing over letters, use the [BACKSPACE] or [DELETE] key to delete them. Phonetic elements must be written exactly as they appear in Appendix D (Or when listed on the screen when selecting [F10] help). Upper / lower case differences are important. F4 - HEAR PHONETICS At any time in the phonetic editing process you can press [F4] to hear the word spoken. If you have any "illegal" phonetics, you will get an error message in the STATUS window at the bottom of the screen. F5 - ADD WORD TO DICTIONARY Once you are satisfied with the pronounciation of your word, press [F5] to add it to the dictionary. The screen will prompt you to enter the word you wish to add (Up to 32 characters) and will then assign the pronounciation in the PHONETICS window to that word. The word will be added to the in memory exactly as you enter it to the screen, even if that is different from the word in the WORD window NOTE: You can experiment with various phonetic pronounciations of words without creating a dictionary. Only words specifically added to the dictionary (By pressing [F5]) will actually be stored in the in memory dictionary. F6 - DELETE WORD FROM DICTIONARY To delete a word from the in memory dictionary, press [F6]. The screen will prompt you to enter the word to be deleted or to enter an asterisk (*) to delete the entire dictionary. F7 - LOAD DICTIONARY FILE To load a picture from disk, press [F7]. The screen will prompt you for the path name (Drive and dictionary) to load the dictionary from. DO NOT ENTER THE FILENAME, the editor will check for dictionary files on the disk and present them for selection. Move the highlighting to the dictionary file you want to load and press [ENTER]. NOTE: When you load a dictionary, it will add itself to the in memory dictionary. Any words common to both will be written over by the dictionary from disk. F8 - SAVE DICTIONARY FILE When you press [F8], the screen will prompt you for the path name (drive & directory) to save the in memory dictionary to, then for the filename of the dictionary to be saved. If a file by that name is already there, the new dictionary will be written over it. F9 - LIST WORDS IN DICTIONARY Pressing [F9] will list all the words in the in memory dictionary to the screen. The dictionary display shows each word and its pronounciation. F10 - HELP Pressing [F10] lists all legitimate phonemes to the screen. This list is the same as the one in Appendix D. CTRL-HOME Pressing [CTRL-HOME] clears the window the cursor is in. [CTRL-F1]-EXIT Pressing [CTRL-F1] and answering [Y] to the confirmation query will exit the speech editor program. Remember, if you have not saved your in memory dictionary to disk it will be lost when you leave the speech editor. NOTE: After running the speech editor program, you must reboot your PC before running the Hearsay program. Both programs use the same parts of memory, and if you do not reboot to clear one before running the other, they will conflict, causing unpredictable (And probably undesirable) results. 5. USING SETUP COMMANDS The Hearsay menu is not the only way you can enable the Hearsay features. You can also enable them by setup commands. A complete list of Hearsay Setup is provided in Appendix F. These are commands that you type on the same line as the HEARSAY line when you install the program. For example, the following installs Hearsay Gold speech Version 3 with Screen Echo enabled: SPEECHV3 1000 [ENTER] HEARSAY/S [ENTER Besides enabling Screen Echo and Keyboard Echo, you can also change the Hearsay Menu colors and set the Hearsay key. NOTE: To see the Hearsay colors, your PC must have a color monitor. 5A. MENU COLORS The background color for the Hearsay menus can be set to any one of eight colors (Any combinations of RGB) with the /B command, & the character color to any of sixteen colors (Any combination of RGB and + intensity) with the /C command (Refer to the color chart in Appendix G). /B by itself will set the background color to black, and /C by itself will set the character color to black. NOTE: If your background and character colors have insufficient contrast, the characters won't show up and you won't see the menus. 5B. HEARSAY KEY The Hearsay Key is the key you will use to get in and out of the Hearsay menus. To tell the Hearsay which key to use, type /Hn, where n is the scan code for the key. You can find out what the scan code is for any key by using the RD-SCAN program on the Hearsay Gold disk. 5C. RD-SCAN PROGRAM To find the scan code for a key, put the Hearsay Gold disk in drive A and type A:RD-SCAN [ENTER]. The RD-SCAN program will wait for you to press a key, then display that key's code on the screen. Press [ESC] to exit the RD-SCAN program. 5D. ENABLE KEYBOARD ECHO Keyboard Echo can be enabled at install time with the /K command. 5E. ENABLE SCREEN ECHO Screen Echo can be enabled at install time with the /S command. Putting a P (Which disables punctuation) or L after the /S command will enable the punctuation and line modes respectively. However /P and /L commands are not operating at this time. You can also load a dictionary file by placing the filename after the /S command. If the file is on a different drive or directory then include the path name with the filename. For example, /SPLC:\MY\DICTIONARY will enable screen echo, with punctuation and line modes on, and load the dictionary file "DICTIONARY" from the "MY" directory on drive C. 5F. SET SCREEN ECHO WINDOW /W top, bottom, mode will set up the Screen Echo Window where top is the top row numbers (1 to 25), bottom is the bottom row number (1 to 25) & mode is either + to only speak text printed inside the window. For example, /W10,15,+ will only speak text that is printed inside screen line 10 to line 15. 5G. MENU HELP LEVEL Normally Hearsay will only speak the titles of the menus as you enter them but this can be changed with the /M command. Putting a C after the /M command will enable the menu commands to be read to you each time you enter a menu. An S after the /M command will enable the status to be read each time you enter a menu. A K after the /M command will enable keyboard echo while in the Hearsay Gold menus so that each key you press while in the menus will be spoken. 5H. HEARSAY VERSION If no version is specified, Hearsay will default to Version 2 for IBM PC'S and XT'S and compatibles, and Version 3 for IBM AT'S and compatibles. To use a different version, enter /Vn, where n is the Version number to be used. 5I. ENTERING MULTIPLE COMMANDS The following example will set the background color to black, the character color to yellow, the Hearsay Key to the ' key on the IBM AT'S keyboard, and enable Screen Echo and Keyboard Echo. HEARSAY/B/C+RG/H2960/S/K If you enter a command line with a non-legitmate code, or specify a filename Hearsay can't find on the disk, program load will be aborted & Hearsay will produce an error message. This message will display the line up to and including the error, and prompt: "Error in command string! Do you want help? (Y /N)", a "Y" answer will display a list of the most commonly used setup commands 5J. BATCH PROGRAMS The best way to use setup commands is to include them in a HS.BAT file that you run whenever you want to use Hearsay (If you name the file AUTOEXEC.BAT it will be run every time you boot up your PC). The file on the Hearsay diskette is an example of a batch file loading Hearsay. Consult your MSDOS batch language to create batch files. 6. HEARSAY PROGRAM FILES The following files are included on the Hearsay Gold program disk. 6A. DEMOV2.BAT Loads Version 2 of Hearsay, then runs the Hearsay Demo program (DEMO.EXE). 6B. DEMOV3.BAT Loads Version 3 of Hearsay, then runs the Hearsay Demo program (DEMO.EXE). 6C. DEMO.EXE This program demonstrates Hearsay Gold, showing how to tailor its speech. 6D. HEARSAY.EXE These are the programs that exercise the Hearsay functions and control the Hearsay menus. With the SPEECHV2 or SPEECHV3 program, it is the primary Hearsay program. 6E. RD-SCAN.EXE This program displays "Scan codes" of your keyboard keys. It is included to permit you to program the scan code of your selected Hearsay Key into a command string. 6F. SP-EDIT.EXE This is the Speech Editor program that is used to create a Hearsay exception dictionary. 6G. SPEECH.EXE This is main speech generator that utilizes either Version 2 or Version 3. 6H. SPEECHV2.EXE This is the Version 2 Hearsay speech generator. It provides the basic speech generation capabilities. 6I. SPEECHV3.EXE This is the Version 3 Hearsay speech generator. It provides the basic speech generation capabiltites. 6J. DEMO.SD2 This is the exception dictionary file the Version 2 Demo program uses to pronounce the words used in the demo. 6K. DEMO.SD3 This is the exception dictionary file the Version 3 Demo program uses to pronounce the words used in the demo. 6L. HSGOLDDR.BAS This is a machine language driver program to support the Hearsay functions for BASIC programmers (See part XXXXX Programmer's Guide, for use of this program). 6M. README.TXT Contains the text files of all changes to the manual. 6N. EDITOR.EXE Contains the Hearsay Editor menus. 6O. STATUS.EXE Gives a status of memory allocation. 6P. HS.BAT Is the batch file that loads Hearsay, Speech, Editor & Status in one step. HS/2 will load Version 2 of Hearsay & HS/3 will load Version 3 of Hearsay.