A retired static communication device that uses 4, 8, or 32 location keys to store 6.5 minutes of digitized speech, or 11.5 minutes in extended speech mode.
Allows you to assign a tool or tools and text to a core vocabulary key on your communication overlay. You can also swap keys, hide/show keys, assign tools and/or text to Spell, Computer or Minspeak modes with this tool.
Activating this key can change what the next key that you activate does. The behavior of some keys will be altered, or the next character typed will generate a "control character" which can be sent to a computer.
Allows you to copy text in one application and paste it into another application. For example, if you have created some text in the regular Workspace that you decide is something that you would like to save in a Notebook, you can highlight the text using BLOCK MARK and copy into a Notebook.
display when you activated your last (previous) selection. If the previous selection was a tool, removes any text that you brought up on the DELETE LAST SELECTION does nothing.
This tool removes the word or group of letters to the to the next space or punctuation mark. If the character to the left of the cursor is a space, left of the cursor up DELETE WORD removes the space.
Activate this tool to disable your headpointer. When the headpointer is disabled you will see a box on the device screen. When you are ready to re-enable the headpointer, click OK in the box. When the headpointer is disabled you will only be able to activate OK in the box. The headpointer will not activate any other keys.
Press this key plus the Tool or menu that you want help for. Once you are in a Help screen you can scroll pages, speak a page, change fonts, do a search for a particular item or go to the online manual.
Adjusting the Headpointer horizontal settings will allow easier access to the right and left edges. Increase the Horizontal number if you have trouble reaching the right or left edges.
Use this tool in conjunction with the use an IBM at work and a Mac at home. Often a Mac and an IBM have a key that does the same thing but it is called something different on each computer (e.g. Mac MAC MARKER tool. Perhaps you command or IBM command). When you store computer emulation commands, you can store then add command. Store both these commands under the same icon sequence. When you activate this sequence, the Pathfinder will select the correct command for the computer you are using, (Select the computer you are going to use for computer access in the Computer Access Menu of the USER AREA MENU.)
Allows you to store tools or text and tools under icon sequences or assign them to keys. Activate this tool before each tool that you want to store. Then activate the tool you want to store.
A clinician or MAP developer who is setting up an overlay that will be used with the LAM can now assign this Tool to a key that normally would not be logged as an activation by the LAM. For example, if a user activates CLEAR DISPLAY, this action is not logged by the LAM. The clinician can add the LAM MARKER tool to the CLEAR DISPLAY key assignment, "clear display", and the LAM data will show "clear display" when that key is activated.
Use this with keyboard mouse emulation commands This allows you to store mouse movements from a list of movements which are relative to your current mouse position, e.g., large movement, very large movement, small movement, etc. The mouse moves in increments.
This allows you to store mouse movements from a list of specific movements, e.g., upper left corner, bottom right corner, middle top, etc. The mouse moves to a specific location.
This is used in creating macros that navigate the menus. This tells the Pathfinder to save what you have done and return to the previous page. The OK key also acts as a "repeat" key in Minspeak mode. After you have retrieved an icon sequence, you can activate OK to repeat the sequence.
This key opens the device Manual so that you can read it on the display screen. Once you see the manual you can change to a larger font, scroll up and down the pages, choose to see only the manual headings or to view all of the text, or you can do a search for a particular item.
This is the Phone Pad for the phone card option. Use this to dial and receive calls, do text messaging, etc. This is the most complete of the phone tools.
When you have music stored on a secure digital card and a USB flash drive and they are both plugged into your device, activate this tool and pick the storage device you want to listen to.
This tool allows you to play dice games that use from 1-6 dice. When you activate ROLL DICE a number will appear on the display indicating the dice roll. Activate ROLL DICE again. A different number will appear. The numbers will not be spoken.
Normally, when you turn the Pathfinder off, you see "Saving changes…" on the screen. This tool allows you to save changes without turning the Pathfinder off. You might want to store this tool if you are doing a lot of programming and want to periodically save your work.
Allows you to go to a specific activity. Use the arrow keys and OK key on your overlay to navigate through your activities if you don't want to use the display screen.
Allows you to modify/assign keys without going to the toolbox. We recommend that you assign this Tool to one of the blank keys on the front of your device case.
When this tool is activated, the Pathfinder speaks all of the text in the text area of the display and in the buffer. (When you type, letters and words will move off the screen in order to make room for new letters and words. Words that are no longer on the screen have moved to the workspace. You can use the arrow keys to bring them back onto the display screen.) Clearing the display (the device Off clears the buffer. This tool works whether speech is On of Off.
When you activate this tool, the Pathfinder speaks the last stored message you activated or the last spelling characters you put on the display. This is helpful if you have to repeat yourself so that someone listening can understand you better, or to get someone's attention. This tool works whether speech is On or Off.
When you activate this key, the Pathfinder speaks the message that contains the cursor. This is helpful if you want to hear how something you are working on sounds before you store it. It is also useful if you are going to give a speech or presentation. People seem to understand DECtalk Access32 speech better when they hear it one sentence at a time until they are used to listening to it. This tool works whether speech is On or Off.
When this tool is activated, the Pathfinder speaks the last word you typed on your spelling overlay, or the last word you brought up in Minspeak mode. If you are typing in Spell mode, you can turn speech OFF type the word. Then you can activate this key and the word you typed will be spoken. See also the (so you don't have to listen to the Pathfinder speak each letter) and FEEDBACK menu, Speak When Spelling.
When this tool is On, all the sequences you select or letters you type are automatically spoken. When this tool is Off, nothing is spoken unless you activate one of the two actions.
This single menu gives you access to all other menus. With this menu, you do not have to go to the Toolbox to access menus, nor do you have to store each individual menu in an icon sequence or on your overlay.
This marks the end of the text in a sequence where a SPEECH MARKER and/or SPEECH MARKER TEXT MARKER has been used. Any text after the TEXT AND will be both displayed and spoken.
This allows you to save the Pathfinder's memory to a computer disk, transfer memory from one Pathfinder to another and import graphics, and Save/Load Notebooks to and from a computer. (See the Manual MTI for more information.)
Adjusting the Headpointer vertical settings will allow easier access to the top and bottom edges. Increase the Vertical number if you have trouble reaching the top or bottom edges.
Allows you to use different voices in a message, without having to store the whole options from the menu. SPEECH menu in a macro. This gives you only the voice.
