GaiShan Technology TM-5801 User Manual

TellMate

User Manual

Content

File 1 - Basic Description

1. The set

2. Accessories

3. The labels

File 2 - Cha rging Battery

4. Battery Status

5. To Charge the Battery

6. When to Charge

File 3 – The Functions

7. Modes of Operations

8. Terminology

9. Start up and Shut down

10. Menu Selection

11. Music

12. Recorder

13. Audio Book

14. FM Radio

15. Scanner

File 4 – The Controls

16. Change Folder within a Function

17. Internal and External Memory

18. Select Audio Prompt lang uage

19.

File 5 – The Clock

20. Talking Clock

21.

File 6 – Frequently Asked Questions
File 7 – Trouble Shooting
File 8 – FCC statement

Content 1/8/2009

Basic Descript ions :

1. The Set

1.1) Part one - General description

1.1.1) The name of this device is called TellMate

and shape of your mobile phone.

1.1.2) On the front surface, there is no screen display. There are 5 large buttons on the
lower half of the front surface, whil e t he s pe a ker is at the top half. On the right side
of speaker, there are 3 LEDs positioned among the speaker grill holes.

1.1.3) At the bottom, you will find a USB port and the earphone jack. On the right hand
corner, there is also a hinge for the lanyard.

1.1.4) On top part of the device, you can find external microphone jack (towards the right
corner), the internal microphone (built- in at centre, not visible) and a line-in
recording jack towards the left corner).

1.1.5) On the right side, there are 3 push buttons, namely the Play, Stop and Record
buttons in that order and below these 3 buttons is where the mini SD card slot is.
On the left side, there are 2 slide switches, namely the Reset switch on top and the
keypad lock switch below it.

1.1.4) At the back surface, there is nothing exce pt the battery compartment

1.1.5) The logo for TellMate

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1.2) Part 2 - Locations and the names of the buttons.

1.2.1) Hold the device with the 5 buttons on the front surface facing you. In this position,
the scanner is located at the top half of the back panel, wh ile the bottom half is
where the battery compartment is.

1.2.2) Now among the group of 5 buttons, the centre one is the menu button. On the right
side of this menu button is the RIGHT or FORW ARD button. On the left side is
the LEFT or REWIND button.

1.2.3) Similarly, above the centre menu button is the UP button, and below the menu
button is the DOWN button.

This handheld device is ab o ut the size

is printed just below the 5 buttons on the front surface.

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1.2.4) The 3 press butto ns o n the right side of the device. The top most b utton is the
PLAY button, the middle one is the STOP but to n a nd the last and lowest one is the
RECORD button. Below the Record button is the mini SD card slot.

1.2.5) Finally, on the left hand side of the device are 2 sli de switches. The top one is the
RESET switch. This is a spring loaded slide switch. The lower one is called the
KEYPAD LOCK, these 2 are on / off switches an d ca n only slide up or down.

2. Accessories

2.1. Charger.

2.1.1. Standard power point plug is provided, with universal input voltages from

2.1.2. When only charger is plugged into the A C power source, a small green L

2.1.3. When the charger is connected to the set, the green L E D will turn red

2.1.4. When battery is full, this red L E D will remain on until it is disconnected.

2.1.5. Depending on the type supplied, most chargers come with a USB type

2.2. USB cable - connect to P C / laptop for file transfer, same type as the charger USB.

2.3. Line-in cable – for direct recording or transferring of files from another audio equipment.

2.4. Earphone.

Standard earphone with 3.5 mm audio pin.

2.5. B attery.

2.5.1. Lithium Ion rechargeable battery (similar to hand phone type) is used.

2.5.2. The battery is enclosed inside the battery compartment. It is removable.

2.5.3. From battery low, it takes about 3 hours to charge to full.

2.5.4. A fully charge battery has a playback time of minimum 20 hours. Actual

2.5.5. When you receive your new TellMate

110 to 250 V AC, 50/60 Hertz, and output of 5 V DC 500 milli Amp
maximum.

E D on the charger will light up (to indicate power is on).

(indicating charging in progress).

connector.

period depends on how often the sca n ner is used and how often the speaker
is on. As a guide only, the battery will last about 8 hours of continuously
playback with the speaker on all the time at maximum volume.

, the battery may not be inside the

battery compartment. Insert the batte ry first before any atte mpt to start.

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3. The labels

Actual labels are very thin ( 0.55 to 1.0 m m ). Label comes in many different physical shapes
and sizes.

3.1. The types enclosed in your p ac kage may be a combinations of the following:

3.1. There are many more labels of different shapes and sizes, depending on where

3.2. Labels can be embedded or placed on objects for the purpose of unique

3.3. Labels can be re-cycled. If today I use it to identify a book, tomorrow I can re-use

Remember to remove the batter y when the device will not be use d o ver a
long period.

3.1.1 45 x 45 m m square type.

3.1.2 15 x 30 m m small rectangular type.

3.1.3 15 x 30 m m small rectangular type, p aper base and with adhesive on one

side and is usually use for permanent labeling.

3.1.4 Round type, either 20mm or 25mm or 30mm.

user needs to attach the label to. For simplicity now, DO NOT attach these
electronic labels DIRECTLY onto a metallic surface, or DO NOT read more than
one label at a time. It will not work and the device will give AFB “scan failure”.
(Note: labels to be placed directly on metal surface are available but are of
different types and cost double the normal ones mentioned above).

identification and differentiation ( I & D ). Examples of some usage now are:
Label placed on medication package to correctly identify and differentiate types.
Label placed on books or documents for easy access.

the same label to record a new message over the previous one. See section 15 .5

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Charging the battery.

Battery status is important to vis ua l ly impaired users. In order not to confuse user when the
device is “out of battery” or “out of order “ , battery status, given in the form of AFB ( audio
feedback or prompts ), is announced every time the de vice is started-up.

4. Battery status.

There are 4 levels of battery status used in the device. They are:

4.1) Battery Full.

This is when battery is from fully charged down to about 80% o f
the max level. The AFB is “Battery Full” and represented by only
the green L E D lighting up.

4.2) Battery Medium.

When battery level drops to below 80% of max, it is in the medium
level region. AFB is “Battery Medium” and represented by lighting
up of blue L E D (middle L E D). Most of the time user will be in
this region.

4.3) Battery Low.

This is when battery level drops to about 15%. At this point, user
has about 40 minutes of usage time. It is recommended to re-charge
the battery whenever user hears this AFB “Battery Low”. This level
is represented by the lighting up of single red L E D.

4.4) Battery Empty.

A further drop in battery voltage to 5% will cause the device to
output AFB “Battery Empty” and then auto shut down the device by
going into standby mode with AFB “standby”. Please take note
when battery is at empty level, it may not be sufficient to re-start
the device. Therefore, do not le t the batter y go to this level.
Otherwise, charge the battery first before re-starting.

5. To charge the battery.

Make sure the battery is seated properly inside the battery compartment first.

5.1) Connect the charger’s USB connector to the device’s USB port.

Then connect the battery charger to the power source on the wall.

5.2) Turn on the switch at the power source and within a few seconds,
you should hear AFB “Battery Charging”. This is you r
confirmation that all connections are proper and power is turned on.

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At this point and during the duration of charging the battery, the 3

LED will light up as slow running lights

5.3) Charging from low level to full takes about 3 hours. When

the battery is fully charged, the device will output the AFB
“Battery Full” 5 times in a row. This AFB comes from the speaker
and may be loud in the quiet night time (no need for a earphone).

5.4) Disconnect the charger by switchi n g off the power source. Then

disconnect the charger from the device.

5.5) Should you fail to turn off the power source within few minutes of

the first “Battery Full” AFB, the device will repeat the AFB 5 more
times. If power is still on, the device ge ts cranky and throws into
tantrum by repeating the AFB continuously. You are very welcome
to suggest a better way to inform the user to turn off and disconnect
the charger.

5.6) Please take note that when the device is c o nnected to your computer
via the USB cable, the battery is also be ing charged by the power
from your computer. Bu t you will not hear any of the AFB.

6) When to charge
Please note that the device can still function when it is connected to the
charger. The only difference is that it is no longer portable as it must be connected
to the power for charging.

6.1) When you hear the audio prompt “B attery Low”, it is strongly advisab le

that you start to re-charge the battery.

6.2) You can also re-charge the battery any time you feel needed. No need to

wait for the battery low level.

6.3) It is also possible to stop the charging any time when you wish to and no

need to wait for it to be fully charge.

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The Functions :

7. Modes of Operations.

There are 6 functional modes of operations in this device. They a re :

7.1. Scanner – this is the main objective of the device where it enables the user to
scan for information relev ant to an item or obj ect. The scanner he re functions as
a label scanner, not a scanner that will scan any prin ted materials and expect a
audio output later. There is no text to speech engine in this device.

7.2. Music – this is the M P 3 player mode. It works like the normal MP3 player.

7.3. Audio book – this is where you can listen to audio books, documents, recorded

lectures and seminars. ( Not Daisy compatible )

7.4. Recorder – this is the mode that w ork s like the digital voice rec order, allowing
recording with either external, internal microphone or line-in.

7.5. Radio - tune in to local F M radio stations. There are 10 pre-set stations that you
can choose to pre-set.

7.6. Talking clock giving you a m or p m, hour and minute prompts.

8. Terminology.

8.1. P R. followed by the name of a button, for example P R Play – means press the

PLAY button once and let go. In instruction manual, this will simply be referred to
as press Play button.

8.2 P H. followed by the name of a button, for example P H Stop – means press and

hold the Stop button for about 2 seconds (or the time to count to 3). In instruction
manual, this will be referred to as “ P H Stop”.

8.3 D C. followed by the name of a button, for example D C Menu – means you

double click the Menu button.

8.4 A F B – audio feedback or audio prompt– this is the au dio instruction or

feedback the device announces to the user.

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9. To start-up and shut down the device.

For the purpose of shipment, all devices are shipped with the battery outside their
compartment. Please insert the battery into the compartment before attempting to start the
device.

9.1. Press the Play button once to start the device. All 3 L E D will light
up for a short time. Then only L E D indicating the current battery level will
continue to light up.

9.2. At the same time, you should hear the AFB announcing the battery
status, that is, if battery is full, you hear “ Batt ery Full”.

9.3 After the battery status AFB, the device automatically defaults to the position
where you last shut the device d o wn. Example, your last shut-down was done
from file 5 of music folder 3, then this is where the device will start-up next time.

9.4. If the shut down was from a position from external memory:

9.4.1 but device is re started without the presence of SD card, then it will

default to internal memory, file 1 of m usic 1 f old er ( reference position).

9.4.2 a new SD card with no “last used position” memorized yet, device will

default to reference position also.

9.5. If after a shut down, the file position that was remembered is missing, either due
to user deleted the file, corrupted or whatever reason, then device will restart
from reference position.

9.6. Important note at this stage– the built-in speaker is defaulted to be ON every
time you start up the device. You should decide at this stage if you want to listen
in privacy from earphone only or from speaker. ( to turn OFF the speaker, press
Left and Right arrow keys together for about 2 seconds ).

9.7. To shut down the device properly – press STOP button and hold on to it until
you hear AFB “standby”. That is all you need to do. The device will also auto
shuts down if there is no activity for more than 30 minutes.

10. Menu Selection.

10.1 At any time after the device is on, you can go to menu selection – b y P H Menu
button ( press and hold the menu button for about 2 seconds) .

10.2 You will then hear the AFB of the current m o de that you are in.

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