TextSpeak TS-04-W User Manual

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Model TS-04 -W

Wireless Speech Keyboard System 2.0

Users’ Guide

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Overview

TextSpeak™ TS-04 text-to-speech speaker and wireless keyboard system instantly converts typed text to a natural sounding voice. The easy-to-use speaker/keyboard combination works right out of the box without setup, and speaks with an unlimited vocabulary.

• Easy to use AAC Augmentative Communication Device

• Just type to talk, use any speakerphone to talk over a phone line

• Nothing to learn, ready to work when you open the box!

• Programmable phrase storage using integrated FLASH memory

• Operates on AC wall adaptor or batteries

• Uses exclusive Digital Acoustics® technology

TS-04 S

ONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS

PEAKER

External Keyboard Connector

(Model TS-04K)

Low Battery Indicator

On Off Indicator

Power Connector (9 volt DC)

Hi/Lo Volume Select

On/Off Switch

LED Status Display

• On continuously Active/Normal – waiting to Speak

• Flashing quickly Synthesizing Speech

• Flashing slowly Function key phrase recording in progress

• Flashing very slowly Battery “standby” operation

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Power Modes and Battery Operation

AC Adapter Operation

A 9-volt AC power adaptor is supplied with the TS-04. AC powering permits you to leave the TS-04 on all the time and be ready to use instantly when you type on the keyboard.

The wireless keyboard has a 10-foot range to enable portable typing across a room.

Portable/Battery Operation

Battery operation is enabled automatically if the AC power is not used or detected.

Press the ON/OFF button to control power in AC or

battery modes

Smart powering modes: (Battery operation only)

Smart power management prolongs battery life and may provide weeks of usage before requiring a new battery in the speaker

● Standby - When the keyboard is not used to generate speech for Power

3 minutes the TS-04 will enter Sleep Mode.

● Resume - Press the space bar 2-4 times in quick succession to ‘wake

Power up the TS-04 from sleep mode.

● Auto Off - After 10 minutes of inactivity the TS-04 will automatically turn off

to conserve battery power. Pressing the “END” key will also turn the power off and may be used at any time.

NOTE: The TS-04 keyboard

has automatic ON/OFF powering and extremely long battery life. Normal use requires battery replacement of 2 AAA batteries only once every 6-12 months. Refer to Appendix A to learn more about keyboard battery replacement.

Low Battery Indication:

When the low battery indicator is flashing change the 9 Volts Battery in the TS-04 or use external AC power.

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Getting Started

TextSpeak TS-04 system includes 2 components, the speech generating speaker and a wireless keyboard. For normal operation, simply press the Power ON/OFF switch, type on the keyboard, press ENTER , and you're ready to start talking!

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

S-04 Speaker TS-04 Keyboard

Connect AC Power or

install a 9-volt battery

Press the white On/Off button on TS-04 Speaker for powering

Type on the keyboard H e l l o and press Enter to ‘speak’ your first word! Type other words or phrases, press Enter

again, and you’ll be typing and talking!

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Power Modes and Battery Operation

AC Adapter Operation

A 9-volt AC power adaptor is supplied with the TS-

04. AC powering permits you to leave the TS-04 on all the time and be ready to use instantly when you type on the keyboard.

The wireless keyboard has a 10-foot range to enable portable typing across a room.

Portable/Battery Operation

Battery operation is enabled automatically if the AC power is not used or detected.

Press the ON/OFF button to control power in AC

or battery modes

Smart powering modes: (Battery operation only)

Smart power management prolongs battery life and may provide weeks of usage before requiring a new battery in the speaker

● Standby - When the keyboard is not used to generate speech for Power

3 minutes the TS-04 will enter Sleep Mode.

● Resume - Press the space bar 2-4 times in quick succession to ‘wake

Power up the TS-04 from sleep mode.

● Auto Off - After 10 minutes of inactivity the TS-04 will automatically turn off

to conserve battery power. Pressing the “END” key will also turn the power off and may be used at any time.

NOTE: The TS-04 keyboard

Low Battery Indication:

When the low battery indicator is flashing change the 9 Volts Battery in the TS-04 or use external AC power.

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Typing To Talk

To start using the TS-04 press the speaker Power ON/OFF switch, wait until the blu e Active indicator is ON, and begin typing to talk. There is no ON/OFF switch for the keyboard. It powers on instantly every time you begin typing and powers off automatically.

To talk, type a word or phrase, then press the enter key. If you make a mistake typing just press the backspace key to delete the last key-

press entry (or words) while typing.

In normal operation TextSpeak waits to speak

until after the ENTER key is pressed!

Advanced features such as auto-repeat, saving phrases, continuous speech generation and speaking over telephones are described below.

Using Function Keys to Say Phrases

Function keys can be used to store commonly used phrases. After programming, pressing any function key will speak the pre-programmed phrases.

A total of 32 phrases are available. F1 and F2 pre-allocated to special factory stored phrases. 30 other phrases are programmable.

F1 is pre-programmed to speak

“Hello, I cannot speak and will be using a speech synthesizer”

F2 is pre-programmed to speak

“Please be patient while I type responses”

F3 to F12 are User Programmable

Function key phrases are recorded and saved to memory after the TS-04 is powered off.

"Alt" and "Control" key combinations may be used to store

20 additional phrases. Hold down (or press and release) the ALT

or CTRL key, then press the desired Function Key (F3 to F12) to program recorded phrases.

F3 F12

F6Alt

F9Ctrl

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Storing Speech Keyboard Phrases To Memory

Step 1

Record a Keyboard

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Press Press the accent/tilde key Listen

Listen for the reply "Press F Key"

Select Press the desired key by pressing F3 to F12

Wait for the confirmation of the key number to be spoken

Wait

Note: 10 phrases may be stored using F3 to F12. 20 additional phrases may be used

by adding the ALT and CTRL key with keys F3 to F12. To program these press the Alt or CTRL key before the each function key

Type Text Type the text or phrase wish to record Press ENTER Listen

Listen for the audio reply "O.K.", indicating success

Press the 'Enter' key to stop recording

Verify Press the function key to verify the phrase

• The ESC (Escape) key may be used to cancel a phrase recording sequence

• Saved phrases pressed sequentially will be spoken in order and combined.

• Phrases are saved in memory when power is removed.

SAMPLE PHRASES

F3 My name is John Russell, I live at 2, Main Street F7 Please contact by brother at 203-820-1234 CTRL+F3 Tomorrow ALT+F3 I am OK, thanks ALT+F4 I would like to eat ALT+F5 I would like to call home

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Speaking on a telephone line

You can use TextSpeak TS-04 to speak directly into a telephone using any standard speakerphone.

Simply place the TS-04 speaker near the phone and the distant caller will hear your typed phrases loud and clear.

Adjusting Volume and Speech Generation Speed

The Hi and Lo Switch on the TS-04 controls 2 levels of volume. If more

+/-

adjustment is required press the keyboard Arrow Up and Arrow Down keys multiple times.

Talking Speed (time between each word) is adjustable in 4 steps. To slow down talking speed, press the Left Arrow multiple times. To speed up speech, press the Right Arrow multiple times. If you wish to save the settings as a power up default, refer to Appendix A.

Special Key control commands

Enter

Pg Up

‘

Esc

End

Enter Press to speak a typed phrase (default mode)

Page Up Sentence Mode (speak when Enter is pressed)

Page Down Spelling Mode (speak every letter typed)

Program (refer to "Storing Phrases' in previous section)

‘Escape’ Cancel current action

‘Slash’ Repeat last phrase

End Power off command

Arrow Down Volume Down

Arrow Up Volume Up

Arrow Left Slow down speech playback

Arrow Right Speed up speech playback

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FUNCTION KEY WORKSHEET

Hello, I cannot s

eak and will be using a

F2 Please be patient while I type responses F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12

Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases

Available for saved phrases

Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases

“ALT” KEY + FUNCTION KEY COMBINATIONS

ALT F3 ALT F4 ALT F5 ALT F6 ALT F7 ALT F8 ALT F9 ALT F10 ALT F11 ALT F12

Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases Available for saved phrases

Available for saved phrases

“CTRL” KEY + FUNCTION KEY COMBINATIONS

CTRL F3 CTRL F4 CTRL F5 CTRL F6 CTRL F7 CTRL F8 CTRL F9 CTRL F10 CTRL F11 CTRL F12

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Appendix A Changing voice, language and settings

The TS-04 is capable of supporting 2 voice styles as well as English and Spanish languages. Selecting these may be made by entering a special “Setup Mode”

Pressing the ‘CTRL’ and “S” key enables “Setup Mode”

CTRL

Press “E” to alternate language between English and Spanish.

(For Spanish, the “ñ” key is mapped at the English “;” key)

Press “V” to alternate voices between Female and Male.

Press “F” to restore all original factory volume and voice settings. Press “S” to save settings. This stores the current voice and language setting

in memory. The current selection of volume and speech rate w ill also be saved and used as the new power up default setting.

Appendix B Replacing Keyboard Batteries

When keyboard batteries are replaced wireless links must be

restored for speech to be generated

Keyboard batteries should normally be replaced every year. However, when batteries are removed a special CONNECT process MUST be used to reactivate the keyboard link to the TS-04.

batteries. The TS-04 9v main battery does not require this process.

This process is ONLY needed for KEYBOARD

Step 1

Locate the 2 AAA keyboard batteries

Locate position of “CONNECT” button

Step 2

Depress BOTH ON/OFF and SPEAKER

buttons simultaneously for 2 seconds

Wait for Speech Audio phrase

“Press Keyboard Connect Now”

Step 3

Press the red CONNECT button on

the underside of the keyboard.

(Location is next to the battery compartment)

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Specifications

Size and Weight

TS-04 Speech Generating Speaker

• L: 5.3 inches W: 4.0 inches H: 1.5 inches W: 10 oz

TS-04 Wireless Keyboard

• L: 13 inches W: 7 inches H: 1.2 inches W: 1 lb 2 oz

Power and Battery

Speaker Operation

• 9 Volt AC Adaptor

• Battery 9V Alkaline MN1604 or Equiv

• Battery Life (Est) 100+ Hours based on 10 minutes/hour use

Keyboard Operation

• Auto Power On/Off

• Battery 2 AAA Alkaline

• Battery Life (Est) 6-12 months

Keyboard Access

• Wireless QWERTY Full Size, Mini-keyboard 2.4Ghz , 3 Meter range

What's In The Box?

• One TextSpeak TS-04 Speech Generating Speaker

• One TextSpeak Wireless Keyboard

• Power transformer for DC Operation

• Batteries

• Instruction manual

Technical – How the TS-04 Works

• Unlimited Phoneme Based Word Generation

• Sleep mode power use 125 mW

• 24 mHz Flash Based DSP Processor with integrated Codec

• 2KB Flash hold 30 Items for phrase storage

• Real time conversion for streaming text

The TS-04 Speaker performs text-to-speech synthesis based on concatenative unit samples. The units can vary from whole words down to phonemes. A corpus of pre-recorded words is stored in flash memory using patented multilevel storage (MLS) memory and a mapping of the various sub-word parts is held in a lookup table. Speech creation is achieved by combining concatenation units of speech elements to produce words. Speech may be generated in real time, wi th unlimited vocabulary

The system process flow includes Text Normalization, Words to Phoneme, Phon eme Mapper, MLS, Memory and Audio D/A Conversion. Keyboard/Speaker Radio links utilize via 2.4 GHZ Channel Hopping Transceivers.

External Keyboards (TS-04K), incorporate auto-detecting PS/2 Keyboard connectors

Technical Support

Technical support is available M-F 9AM - 5PM EST Telephone: (203) 557-0222 Email: [email protected]

TextSpeak Design Group Westport, CT 06880 www.TextSpeak.com

This document may contain advance information. Contact factory for technical specification before product design and/or use. Design and specifications are subject to change without notice. This product in NOT INTENDED to be used for lifesafety or medical critical care alarms and/or notificati ons. TextSpeak™ and Digital Acoustics® are trademarks of Digital Acoustics Corporation © 2008/2011 (D03-TS04C_Users-1X.docu 0910)

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