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Programming a Phone Number to Speak Correctly

Using the TEXT AND SPEECH MARKER TOOLS:

 

These tools mark text that is to be seen on the display but not spoken or that is to be spoken but not seen. Text & Speech Marker tool closes the operation.

Use the TEXT MARKER tool when you want text from a stored message to be seen on the display, but not spoken. The Text Marker tool goes in front of the text that is to be seen on the display.

Use the SPEECH MARKER tool when you want text from a stored message to be spoken by the device but not to be seen on the display screen. The Speech Marker tool goes in front of the text that is to be spoken.

Use the TEXT & SPEECH MARKER tool to end the operation where individual speech and text markers were used in a message.

Programming your Phone Number:

  1. Navigate to the key you wish to modify, select the Tools key then Set-up key (#2)  then select the icon.
  2. Select Spell Message or Define Key Function
  3. Choose INSERT TOOL, then select More Items then press SPEECH MARKER
  4. Enter the phone number installing spaces between each number.
  5. Choose INSERT TOOL again, then More Items to select TEXT MARKER.
  6. Enter the phone number the way you would like to see it printed in the text bar.
  7. Finish programming by selecting INSERT TOOL again, then More Items to select TEXT-SPEECH MARKER.
    So the message in your programming screen will look similar to this: 


<SPEECH-MARKER>1 8 0 0 2 6 2 1 9 8 4<TEXT-MARKER>1-800-262-1984<TEXT-SPEECH-MARKER>

    8.  Change Icon and Label allows you to change the "look" of the icon, Change Key Color will change the background color of the icon, etc. 

    9.  Select OK when finished.


This will print the phone number correctly in the text bar but will also speak it one letter at a time.  Unfortunately, if you must repeat your phone number you will not want to select the text bar at the time or it will once again read one minus eight hundred minus two hundred and sixty two minus nineteen eighty four.  Repeat the number by select the icon or icon sequence again.