Use Spelling Alphabet; Speak Punctuation - NUANCE Series 60 Phones User Manual

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Press [TALKS], [2].
Or
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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" instead of
"C-A-T."
To activate or deactivate the spelling alphabet:
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Press [TALKS], [3].
Or
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In the TALKS&ZOOMS Settings dialog box, on the Speech tab, set Use spelling alphabet to
Yes or No.
4.2.6

Speak punctuation

TALKS enables you to choose the extent to which it should read out punctuation marks and symbols. The
Speak punctuation function has four options, as described in this section.
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None: TALKS does not read out any punctuation marks; it does read out the names of the
characters shown in Table 3.
Table 3
Character
#
$
%
&
*
+
<
=
>
@
\
^
`
{
}
|
~
Note: TALKS also announces all non-alphanumeric characters with ASCII codes greater than
127.
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Some: TALKS reads out the names of the characters in Table 3 and Table 4.
Name
Number sign
Dollar symbol
Percent
Ampersand
Asterisk
Plus
Less than
Equals
Greater than
At sign
Backslash
Caret
Grave accent
Open curly bracket
Close curly bracket
Vertical bar
Tilde
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