NUANCE Series 60 Phones User Manual

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NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Version 4.0
Mar 2009
Nuance Accessibility Suite:
Nuance TALKS and Nuance ZOOMS
For Series 60 Phones
User Guide

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  • Page 1 NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Version 4.0 Mar 2009 Nuance Accessibility Suite: Nuance TALKS and Nuance ZOOMS For Series 60 Phones User Guide...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 2004-2009 Nuance Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Nuance Communications, Inc., provides this document without representation or warranty of any kind. Nuance Communications, Inc., reserves the right to revise this document and to change the information contained in this document without further notice.
  • Page 3 End-User License Agreement This End-User License Agreement (“Agreement”) is between you (“you”) and Nuance Communication International BVBA, for itself and its affiliates (collectively, “(“Nuance”). By opening the sealed software package and/or by installing, copying, or otherwise using the software “Nuance TALKS” and “Nuance ZOOMS”...
  • Page 4 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO CASE SHALL NUANCE’S LIABILITY EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SOFTWARE. AS A CONDITION OF YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY NUANCE FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND/OR RECEIPT OF CONTENT THROUGH THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE.
  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Introduction ................................1 What is Series 60?............................1 What is the Nuance Accessibility Suite for Series 60?................1 Terminology and conventions in this guide....................2 Getting started with your phone and the Nuance Accessibility Suite ............3 The keypad ...............................3 Making a call..............................5 Answering a call and reading the caller’s identity..................6 Entering text..............................6 2.4.1...
  • Page 6 4.1.2 Read out the current window .........................21 4.1.3 Announce the soft keys ...........................21 4.1.4 Announce the status indicators ......................21 4.1.5 Announce the text status indicators ......................21 4.1.6 Announce the time and date........................22 4.1.7 Read out the current line or selected object..................22 4.1.8 Spell out the current line or selected object ..................22 4.1.9...
  • Page 7 Navigating with the magnifier ........................40 Magnification settings...........................41 6.3.1 Screen mode ..............................41 6.3.2 Zoom factor ..............................41 6.3.3 Auto-fit focus ............................42 6.3.4 Color processing ............................42 6.3.5 Invert colors ..............................42 6.3.6 Scrolling speed ............................42 6.3.7 Auto-scroll delay ............................42 Appendix A: TALKS function-key quick reference ....................43 Appendix B: ZOOMS function-key quick reference ....................45...
  • Page 8: Introduction

    The model name of a phone is not an indication of whether the phone is based on the Series 60 platform. For example, the Nokia 6xxx models are not necessarily Series 60 phones. You can find a list of available and planned Symbian phones at http://www.symbian.com/phones.
  • Page 9: Terminology And Conventions In This Guide

    Soft key: A key that is located just below the display and varies in function. A soft key’s function depends on the label that appears in the display just above the soft key—for example, Menu, Options, Select, or Cancel. Series 60 phones have two soft keys, one on the left and one on the right.
  • Page 10: Getting Started With Your Phone And The Nuance Accessibility Suite

    Suite This chapter explains briefly how to use Series 60 phones and describes a few basic operations to help you start using TALKS on your phone. It is not at all meant as a substitution for the user guide that came with your phone.
  • Page 11 [Select] Series 60 phones have a five-way button, called a joystick, for navigating through menus and selecting items. To select an item, press the center of the joystick straight down. This guide uses the term [Select] for the center of the joystick.
  • Page 12: Making A Call

    [Left] [Right] Some Series 60 phones let you assign an application to each of these keys. [Menu] The [Menu] key calls up the phone's main menu, from which you can start applications, designate the order of the applications in the menu, and move applications to a different folder.
  • Page 13: Answering A Call And Reading The Caller's Identity

    To switch between the list of individual contacts and a list of groups (if your Contacts directory contains any lists), press [Right] or [Left]. If your Contacts directory has more than two tabs, press [Right] again to view contact groups on another tab. Press [Call].
  • Page 14: Predictive Text Input-The T9 Method

    Table 2 Number key Characters Punctuation characters and symbols a, b, c, 2, variants of a and b d, e, f, 3, variants of d and e g, h, i, 4, variants of i j, k, l, 5, pound sign (#) m, n, o, 6, variants of n and o p, q, r, s, 7, German "double s", dollar sign ($) t, u, v, 8, variants of u...
  • Page 15: Adding An Entry To The Contacts Directory

    If the final word that the software displays is the correct one, you can enter a punctuation mark or start entering the next word. To enter a punctuation mark: • For a period, press [1]. • For a punctuation mark other than a period, press [1], [*]. Then press [*] repeatedly until you reach the punctuation mark that you want.
  • Page 16: Sending A Text Message

    Enter the person’s name and at least one phone number. If you want to enter more information—for example, another phone number—press [Key 1] (Options), select Add detail, and enter the additional information. Press [Key 2] (Done) to save the entry in the Contacts directory. 2.6 Sending a text message Press [Menu], and select Messaging.
  • Page 17: Browsing The Internet

    Edition, and to the Nokia WAP browser. It does not offer access to the Opera or NetFront browser, which you can find on some Series 60 phones as well. The Web browser is called ® Internet, located in the phone’s main menu, and it can only be found on Series 60 3 Edition handsets.
  • Page 18 Web browser will automatically start your entry with “http://www.”, and you have to delete this text if this is not what you want. With “Options” and choosing “Settings”, you can change the browser settings, organized in three or four categories. The browser can be setup to start in your list of bookmarks, or on a selected web page.
  • Page 19: Getting Started With The Wap Browser

    2.8.4 Getting started with the WAP browser 2.8.4.1 Starting and configuring the WAP browser The following applies to handsets that allow you to start the WAP browser separately; it does not apply to devices running Series 60 3 Edition FP1 or later. To start the WAP browser, use either of these methods: •...
  • Page 20: Reading A Help Topic

    Type the text that you want to search for. If your phone is running Symbian version 6.1, press [Select] and then type the text. For example, type this text: Nuance Talks Press [Down]. TALKS announces, “Focused button Google Search.” Press [Select] to activate the Google Search button. The search results are displayed, and TALKS reads the page.
  • Page 21: The Talks&Zooms Settings Dialog Box

    3 The TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box The TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box enables you to change various settings related to TALKS, such as volume, speed, pitch, and key echo, or to ZOOMS, such as the zoom factor. The display in the dialog box varies according to the product options that you have purchased;...
  • Page 22: Magnification Settings

    only once per phone. This option is not available when the Offline profile is active, because it requires the ability to send and receive text messages. SMS registration: Enables you to enter the number of the registration ticket that you received from your TALKS&ZOOMS dealer and send an SMS message with that number to the TALKS registration server.
  • Page 23: Advanced Settings

    • Speech (see section 4.2.14) • Volume (see section 4.2.7) • Speed (see section 4.2.8) • Spelling Speed (see section 4.2.9) • Pitch (see section 4.2.10) • Key Echo (see section 4.2.2) • Speak upper case (see section 4.2.3) • Use spelling alphabet (see section 4.2.5) •...
  • Page 24: User Dictionary Tab (Available In Premium Edition)

    Note: If you set a waiting time for the readout of caller ID, do not use the Beep once or Silent setting for the type of ringing (in the Profiles dialog box). Your phone should be set to the default ringing type. •...
  • Page 25 Save the entry: press [Key 1] (Options), and select Save. The new entry is saved. When TALKS encounters text that matches the original text as defined in your entry, TALKS will read out the replacement phrase. 10. To create a replacement for Braille representation, select Add Braille field and follow the steps described in this procedure.
  • Page 26: Icons Tab (Available In Premium Edition)

    Note: You can find the files that contain the dictionary entries in a folder named \Nokia\Others\Talks, normally in the same location where you installed TALKS (either the phone memory, or the memory card). 3.6 Icons tab (available in Premium Edition) The Icons tab enables you to create and edit entries that indicate how you want TALKS to read out icons in third-party applications.
  • Page 27 Press [Key 1] (Options), and select Exit to close the TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box and save your settings. Note: While you are working with application-specific settings, you can close that page and open the global TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box by pressing [Key 2] (Back). To close the TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box completely and return to the current application, press [Key 2] (Exit) again.
  • Page 28: Listening To Talks

    [TALKS], [Long Key 2]. When you compose a text message on some Series 60 phones, you can press [TALKS], [Long Key 2] to have TALKS announce the number of characters that you can still enter before reaching the 160-character limit for an SMS message, and how many messages will be required to send the currently entered text.
  • Page 29: Announce The Time And Date

    Note that TALKS also announces these text status indicators when you press [#] to change the text-entry mode. 4.1.6 Announce the time and date To have TALKS announce the time and date, press [TALKS], [9]. 4.1.7 Read out the current line or selected object The function of the sequence [TALKS], [Up] depends on what is currently displayed on the screen.
  • Page 30: Read Out The Selection Or Spell Out The Web Object In Focus

    In the Nokia web browser, you can press [TALKS], [Down] to have TALKS start reading at the object in focus and stop at the next selectable object. 4.1.13 Read out the selection or spell out the web object in focus When a block of text is selected in a text field, you can press [TALKS], [Long Down] to have TALKS read out the selected text.
  • Page 31 • Status: displays information about the current application, such as the application’s icon, typically shown at the upper end of the screen, and the input mode for text fields • Title: displays the title of the window or dialog box •...
  • Page 32: Add Labels To Icons

    Note: Each role can only be assigned once, except for the “Ignore” role, that can be assigned to as many objects as you like. To close the list of objects, press [Key 2] (Done). 4.1.16.3 Object details To obtain more information about an object listed in the Objects dialog box, scroll to that object and press [Select].
  • Page 33: Talks Settings

    Press [Key 1] (Options), and select Save to save the label. When TALKS encounters this icon, it will read out the label instead of the hexadecimal code. To create a replacement for Braille representation, select Add Braille field and follow steps 46.
  • Page 34: Use Spelling Alphabet

    • Press [TALKS], [2]. • In the TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box, on the Speech tab, set Speak upper case to Yes or No. 4.2.5 Use spelling alphabet You can set TALKS to spell with the NATO spelling alphabet instead of announcing just letters. For example, to spell out cat with the spelling alphabet, TALKS would say “Charlie Alfa Tango”...
  • Page 35: Volume

    Table 4 Character Name Exclamation mark Slash Question mark Underscore Non-breaking hyphen • Most: TALKS reads out the names of the characters in Table 3, Table 4, and Table 5. Table 5 Character Name “ Quotes Left parenthesis Right parenthesis Colon Left square bracket Right square bracket...
  • Page 36: Spelling Speed

    • In the TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box, on the Speech tab, select Speed and then press [Left] to decrease the speed or [Right] to increase it. 4.2.9 Spelling speed You can set the speed at which TALKS spells out words or a line of text. Choose a value from a range of –9 (extremely slow) to +9 (extremely fast).
  • Page 37: Echo Passwords

    4.2.13 Echo passwords You can set TALKS to announce the characters that you enter in a password field. When Echo passwords is set to Yes, TALKS announces the characters even though they are still shown as asterisks on the screen. For security reasons, you should select this option only when you are sure that your passwords cannot be overheard.
  • Page 38: Read Function Keys

    • Digits: For numbers that consist of fewer than five digits: TALKS reads out the number as a whole number. For numbers that consist of five or more digits: TALKS reads out the number digit by digit. • Pairs of digits: For numbers that consist of fewer than five digits: TALKS reads out the number as a whole number.
  • Page 39: Mute On Keylock

    4.2.19 Mute on keylock You can set TALKS to automatically make speech output silent when your phone keypad is locked. You can still use TALKS commands when speech output is muted, but automatic speech output is disabled. To have TALKS automatically mute speech output when your keypad is locked: •...
  • Page 40: Full List Items

    4.2.23 Full list items Some menu items are too long to fit completely on the screen of your phone, so part of the item’s text does not appear. TALKS attempts to read the full text of such items. However, you can set TALKS to read exactly what appears on the screen.
  • Page 41 • Every x seconds: Progress updates are read every 3, 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds, until the screen saver kicks in. After that, you can always press any key to exit the screen saver, and continue hearing progress updates. 4.2.26 Choose TALKS key By default, TALKS&ZOOMS uses the [Edit] key as the [TALKS] key, when it is available on a handset.
  • Page 42 To adjust the speech delay to your specific requirements: Open the TALKS&ZOOMS Settings application, and select Speech delay on the Speech tab. Select a value between 0 seconds and 0.5 seconds (in steps of 50 milliseconds), or choose Default delay. 4.2.30 Volume factor (S60 3 Edition only) The same volume level of TALKS can create speech output with a significantly different volume on...
  • Page 43: Using The Web Browser (Series 60 3 Rd Edition)

    5 Using the Web browser (Series 60 3 Edition) 5.1 Introduction to browsing All handsets running Series 60 3 Edition provide the Web browser to access the internet. This browser is supported by TALKS by implementing virtual browsing capabilities. Web pages can be read line by line, or by using continuous read-out, and quick keys can be used to find certain types of objects easily.
  • Page 44: Elements On A Web Page

    Description This quick key moves the reading cursor to the next frame on the current web page. Note that only frames belonging to the same domain are currently supported by TALKS. This command can be repeated with [*] and [#]. The corresponding letter is “F” for “Frame”. This command moves the reading cursor to the next heading.
  • Page 45: Non-Functional Elements

    Press [Select] to input new text into a text field. When done, you can leave the text field using the arrow keys, or by pressing [Key 1] (“Options”), and selecting “Done” to accept the new content, or by pressing [Key 2] (“Cancel”) to keep the previous content. 5.4.1.3 Radio buttons and check boxes TALKS can identify radio buttons, which allow selecting one of a number of options, and check boxes,...
  • Page 46 also be used to move to the next list item. [9] lets you jump to the beginning of the next list or table. Frames are preceded by “Start frame”, and close with “End frame”. Note that TALKS currently does not support the read-out of content for frames that do not belong to the domain of the current web page (such as third-party ads).
  • Page 47: Magnifying With Zooms

    6 Magnifying with ZOOMS This chapter describes the Nuance ZOOMS magnification component, which you can obtain in a standalone configuration and also in combination with the Nuance TALKS software. Magnification is available with or without speech output; if your version supports only magnification or only speech output, the features that correspond to the missing component are not available.
  • Page 48: Screen Mode

    • Press [TALKS],[Key 2] twice rapidly to view the network indicator, in the upper left corner. To magnify items in the upper part of the screen (such as tabs, the case indicator, or application icons): • Press [TALKS],[Long Key 2] Note: This key sequence usually applies to functions that are relevant to the active application rather than the entire phone application.
  • Page 49: Auto-Fit Focus

    Note: When Zoom factor is set to Auto-fit focus, these key sequences change the number of lines that are visible at one time. See section 6.3.3. • On the Magnification tab, select Zoom factor, and then select either a percentage of magnification or Auto-fit focus.
  • Page 50: Appendix A: Talks Function-Key Quick Reference

    Appendix A: TALKS function-key quick reference Table 7 lists all the key sequences that are assigned to TALKS functions. Note that to start each key sequence, you press [TALKS], which by default is the [Edit], [Menu], or [Chr] key of your Series 60 phone.
  • Page 51 TALKS key sequence Description [TALKS], [Up] Reads the selected object or current line of text; in the WAP browser, also reads the text before the selected object [TALKS], [Long Up] Spells out the selected object or current text line; in the WAP browser, also spells out the text before the selected object [TALKS], [Left] In a text field, reads the character to the right of the cursor...
  • Page 52: Appendix B: Zooms Function-Key Quick Reference

    Appendix B: ZOOMS function-key quick reference Table 8 lists all the key sequences that are assigned to ZOOMS functions. Note that to start each key sequence, you press [TALKS], which by default is the [Edit], [Menu], or [Chr] key of your Series 60 phone.

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