Mobile Talker Pocket PC software augmentative communications aid for people with impaired speech

Mobile Talker Version 2
Mobile Talker is designed to enable a non-verbal (aphasic) user to speak anything they may wish to say. The user can type a word, phrase or sentence and speak it using Text-to-Speech or they may select pre-defined words, phrases and sentences from a categorized list. Optionally, the user can enable Clipboard Speaker mode, whereby any text copied to the clipboard from any other program running on the Pocket PC will be spoken.
Trial Period	Until a licence is purchased for Mobile Talker, you can run it 20 times for up to 1 hour each time. After this it will no longer work, even if you re-install it.
Support	For support please email support@bostock.com with a subject of “Mobile Talker”

Main Tabs
Type + Speak TAB

	Sentence Input Box	Anything typed into this text box can be spoken by pressing the Speak Button. Clear the entry box with the Clear button
	Clear button	Press to clear the Sentence Input Box.
	SIP button	Press to display or Hide the Soft Input panel (SIP).
	Speak button	Press to speak the text in the Sentence Input Box.
Phrases TAB

	New or Edit	Displays the Phrases Window. When a phases is NOT Selected, the button enables you to add a new Phrase. When a phrase is selected, press this button to edit it.
	Speak	Press to repeat the last phase that was spoken.

Menus
File
	Exit	Closes the program
	Create Wave File	Creates a wave file in the Application folder each time a sentence is spoken. The same filename is reused. This option is only available for DECtalk. With BABIL/Infovox, a Text-to-Speech the file is always created.
	Export Database	Exports the current database of phrases to text files so they may be backed up or used on another installation. The files that are created are: Languages.sql, Categories.sql, Phrases.sql, and User_xx.tab where xx is the active language code (e.g. US or UK etc.)
Edit
	Undo	Windows CE Undo feature (only applies to text fields)
	Cut	Windows CE Cut feature (only applies to text fields)
	Copy	Windows CE Copy feature (only applies to text fields)
	Paste	Windows CE Paste feature (only applies to text fields)
	Paste DECtalk Command Brackets	Inserts an empty pair of Square Brackets [] so that a DECtalk inline command can be more easily inserted into the text.
	Delete	Windows CE Delete feature (only applies to text fields)
	Select All	Windows CE Select All feature (only applies to text fields)
	New Category	Input box appears so that a new category can be added.
	New Phrase	Displays the Phrases Window. Select the category for the new Phrase, and enter the text. Then press the Save button.
	Delete Category	Deletes selected category
	Delete Phrase	Deletes selected phrase
	Edit Phrase	Enables editing of the selected phrase. You can change the category or the text of the phrase.
Options
	Language	Language Options window will appear. They vary according to Text-to-Speech engine.
	Clipboard Speaker	When enabled, the clipboard speaker will immediately speak any text copied to the clipboard from another Pocket PC program.
	Pronunciation	Pronunciation Options window will appear. This will only appear if DECtalk or Cepstral are the current Text-to-speech engines.
	Speak Each Word When Typed	When enabled, each word will be spoken immediately after it is typed and followed by a space of punctuation character.
Font Size
	8-16	You may select a font size of from 8 to 16 point. Menu font size will not be affected.
Help
	About	Shows the licence and copyright window.
	Help	Loads this help.
	Register	Allows the user to register the program once a license has been purchased. You can register manually by inputting the registration code, or if the Pocket PC is connected to the internet (e.g. via the docking station), you can register online. When successfully registered, you will no longer see this menu option.

Other Windows
Language Options

	Select Language	Select the language and Text-to-speech engine you have purchased.
	Select Voice	If available, you may choose one of the voices.
	Adjust Rate	If available, you may adjust the rate (how fast the voice speaks).
	Adjust Pitch	If available, you may adjust the pitch (how high or deep the voices sounds).
	Adjust Volume	If available, you may adjust the volume (this is in addition to the Pocket PC's volume controls).
	Cancel button	Quit this window without making any changes.
	Save button	Saves the currently selected language settings.
New or Edit Phases

	Select Category	Choose a category under which the phrase should be stored. To add new categories use the Edit menu.
	Phrase Text Input Box	Input the text you wish to store.
	Cancel button	Quit this window without making any changes.
	SIP button	Press to display or Hide the Soft Input panel (SIP).
	Save button	Saves the new phrase under the selected category.
Pronunciation

	Select or Enter New Word	The dropdown list will be populated with any existing pronunciation commands.
	New button	Press to input a new word for which you can then define the pronunciation.
	Pronunciation Command Text Input Box	Enter the pronunciation command. For DECTalk Voices, Commands MUST be enclosed in Square brackets [] and follow the rules specified in the DECtalk documentation which is available on our website at www.Bostock.com/DECtalk.pdf. For CEPSTRAL Voices only enter the phonetic spelling of the word as described www.Bostock.com/Cepstral_Phonetic_Lexicon.htm e.g. Bostock would be b oa1 s t oa0 k
	Cancel button	Quit this window without making any changes.
	SIP button	Press to display or Hide the Soft Input panel (SIP).
	TEST button	Press to try the command. If it is incorrect, the DECtalk engine will say so.
	Save button	Saves the new pronunciation for this word.

Other Information

DECtalk User Dictionary

If you are using DECtalk Text-to-speech engine, you can create a user dictionary of pronunciations by editing the file User_xx.tab where xx is the active language code (e.g. US or UK). This can only be done on the PC using the program windict_xx.exe which is available on request from our support email.