Mobile Speak and Mobile Magnifier for Windows Mobile Smartphones Quick-Start Guide

Mobile Speak and Mobile Magnifier for Windows Mobile Smartphones: Quick-Start GuideMobile
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Quick-Start Guide

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Topics in This Quick-Start Guide

1 Welcome

2 Getting Started

2.1 Installing Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone

2.1.1 Installation Scenarios

2.1.2 Changing the Installed Voice

2.1.3 Installation Instructions for Mac OS and Linux computer Users

2.2 Uninstalling Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone

2.3 Installing Upgrades

2.4 Activating Code Factory Products for Windows Mobile

2.4.1 Using Remote Activation Wizard on Your Computer

2.4.1.1 Activating Products with a User ID and Using Your Computer

2.4.1.2 Obtaining a User ID

2.4.1.3 Deactivating Products Installed on a Mobile Device Using Your
Computer
2.4.2 Activation Manager

2.4.2.1 Activating Products with a User ID and Using Your Mobile Device

2.4.2.2 Deactivating Products Installed on a Device Using the Device
Itself
3 Performing Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone Commands

3.1 Command Layouts

3.1.1 Default Layout Commands

3.1.2 Advanced Reading Layout Commands

3.1.3 Settings Layout

3.1.4 Magnification Layout Commands

3.2 External Keyboard Commands

3.3 Application-Specific Commands

3.4 Command Help Mode

4 Using Your Windows Mobile Smartphone

4.1 The Today Screen, Start Menu, Quick List and Settings Application

4.2 Navigating Through Dialogs, Lists, Grids, and Tree Views

4.3 Text Input

4.4 Locking and Unlocking the Numeric Keypad or QWERTY Keyboard

4.5 Useful Tips About Using a Windows Mobile Smartphone

5 Other Mobile Speak Smartphone Features

5.1 Control Panel

5.2 Braille Reader Application

5.3 TTS-Specific User Dictionary

5.4 Speech Through the Bluetooth Headset and During a Call

5.5 Mobile Speak Smartphone and 3rd-Party Applications

6 Contacting Code Factory

7 About Code Factory, S.L.

1 Welcome
Thank you for choosing Code Factory products to provide you with the most
comprehensive access to mainstream mobile technology!
Mobile Speak Smartphone (MSS) is the world's first ever screen reader for
Windows Mobile Standard edition. Unlike other products for this platform,
released subsequently to MSS despite inaccurate claims that they were the first,
Mobile Speak Smartphone remains unparalleled when it comes to the number of
mobile phones it supports, built-in and 3rd-party applications with which it is
compatible, and screen reader features and functions that make the use of
Windows Mobile Smartphones intuitive and user-friendly to the blind and visually
impaired. Further, MSS incorporates highly intelligible text-to-speech (TTS)
technology from leading providers for more than twenty languages, as well as
unrivaled support for more than twenty Braille input and output devices, Braille
grades and languages.
Mobile Speak Smartphone allows you to:
Make and receive calls, and know about calls you missed.
Manage your contacts and call lists.
Review the numbers entered in the dialer screen, and check caller ID
information of incoming calls.
Check the battery level, signal strength, Bluetooth state, and other status
details.
Compose and read text messages (SMS) and e-mail.
Use MSN / Windows Live Messenger for real-time text chats.
Browse the internet and fill out online forms.
Use Windows Live Search to readily find news, map directions, and information
about books, music, video, and different products.
Read different types of files including Microsoft Word and plain text
documents, Braille formatted files, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint
presentations using different text navigation commands.
Schedule appointments and tasks, and set reminders for each.
Check the date and time currently displayed on the phone, and Set the clock
and alarms.
Record voice notes.
Perform arithmetic calculations.
Listen to locally saved media files or internet audio streams.
Browse the system of files and folders on the phone and storage card.
Configure phone settings, wallpapers, profiles and ringtones.
Assign speed dial keys and voice tags.
Access other built-in and 3rd-party applications such as Microsoft® Voice
Command, AvantGo newsreader, Audible® Player for audio books, and SlovoEd
Multilingual Dictionaries, just to name a few.
Make more applications accessible using LUA, a powerful, off-the-shelf
scripting language.
Connect with other mobile phones, as well as desktop and notebook computers to
share data.
Moreover, MSS now comes integrated with Mobile Magnifier Smartphone (MMS), the
first and only full-screen magnification solution for Windows Mobile-based
Smartphones that can be used as a standalone product or with speech output. It
features:
Full-screen magnification on all supported phones by default, regardless of
the resolution of the phone’s screen.
Option for a split view where the bottom half of the screen shows what is in
the unmagnified top half.
Option for a distributed view of the current window with the magnified screen
text in the center, while the window title bar (including status icons) or
menu keys, or both title bar and menu keys are displayed using a secondary
zoom level.
Different magnification levels, ranging from 1.5x to 16x, or no magnification
at all.
Font smoothing to improve readability of magnified screen contents by making
them appear less jagged.
An auto text panning function, with speed and pan delay settings, which
scrolls text automatically from left to right if it does not fit the screen
when magnified.
Ability to move the magnifier separately from system focus in order to zoom in
on a certain part of the screen.
Several color schemes to suit different user preferences, including inverted
colors.
An easy-to-see text cursor.
Option to set borders of configurable width and color around the magnified
area.
Commands to zoom in on the window title or the menu keys in the current screen
anytime in full-screen mode.
Global Hotkeys to access the most common features of the Magnifier.
Automatic start-up when the mobile phone is powered on.
Seamless integration with Mobile Speak Smartphone (licensed separately).
Support for an unrivaled range of over 60 Smartphones.
2 Getting Started

Before you install Mobile Speak or Mobile Magnifier on your Windows Mobile-based
Smartphone, please make sure you have done the following:
Verify that you have a device supported by Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone.
Check that either it is in the Device Compatibility List or it meets these
system requirements:

Your device runs on the Standard (Smartphone) edition of the Windows Mobile
operating system, version 5.0 or later.

The Smartphone has at least 32 MB internal program memory (RAM), and 2 to 20
MB of storage memory depending on the text-to-speech engine used. Having a
storage card compatible with your device is strongly recommended.

A Bluetooth-compliant device is required to run Mobile Speak/Magnifier
Smartphone. This will also allow you to use Bluetooth-enabled external
keyboards, headsets, and other accessories.

The device should be able to connect, via USB or Bluetooth, to a computer
running Windows 2000 or a later version.

Install the latest version of Microsoft ActiveSync (for Windows XP and 2000)
or Windows Mobile Device Center (for Windows Vista) on your computer. Refer to
the Microsoft Windows Mobile Synchronization page for details and download
links.

Make sure that the correct date and time is set on your computer.

Check that you have an existing internet connection as this would be necessary
to activate the installed products by connecting to the Code Factory
activation server via the internet without extra charge. Alternatively, you
can activate the products after installation using a cellular or Wi-Fi
connection on your phone, or by sending an SMS / Text message to the Code
Factory server. Refer to Section 2.4 for more details.

Be prepared to configure your firewall or deal with prompts asking you if the
product activation application for code Factory products should be allowed to
connect to the internet. If you have difficulties with this, remember that you
can activate from the device itself after installation while you are in
ten-minute demo mode.

Connect your device to your computer.

Establish a partnership (guest or standard) between your computer and Windows
Mobile-powered device. If you encounter problems, refer to the ActiveSync
Troubleshooting Guide or the Windows Mobile Device Center FAQ and Tips.

2.1 Installing Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone
IMPORTANT: If you already have Mobile Speak Smartphone installed on the device
and wish to upgrade to a new version or reinstall the current one, please refer
to Section 2.3 before installing.
Note: If you are using a computer that is not running Windows XP or later
versions, then you would need to download and install a zip utility program such
as WinZip or 7Zip, and use this to extract the installer (EXE) file before
running it. Do not copy the ZIP or EXE file to the mobile device since the
installer cannot be executed from there.
Since Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone can be installed on the mobile device
remotely from a desktop PC, the process is fully accessible with a screen
reader. The instructions given in this section seem lengthy only because all
details about the installation process are provided, covering all possible
scenarios, but in reality, the process is simple and straightforward. Please
carefully follow the steps below:

If you have not yet done so, connect your device to the PC using a USB cable
and ensure that the connection is established through ActiveSync or Windows
Mobile Device Center.

Browse to the Mobile Speak Smartphone installation file on your PC using
Windows Explorer and press enter to begin the installation process. Note that
this is the same installer used even if you want to install Mobile Magnifier
Smartphone.

If you are asked to first select the installation language, use the Up and
Down arrow keys to do so and activate the "OK" button.

In the next window, read the terms of the product's License Agreement, then
activate the "I agree" button to continue.

In the next window, use the Up and Down arrow keys to select the radio button
for the installation type, and then press on the "Next" button. The following
explains what each installation type does, but if you are still unsure which
one to select, refer to the table in Section 2.1.1.

Standard installation: Select this if you are to install Mobile Speak with
speech on a device that does not yet have any MSS components, or if you wish
to add the Braille or magnification component to a device that already has
MSS and one TTS voice installed. Select this also if you want to install
Mobile Magnifier with a TTS for speech output at the same time.

Install screen magnification only: Select this if you wish to install Mobile
Magnifier Smartphone as a standalone product and without any TTS voice on a
device that does not yet have any MSS components installed. Then, continue
to Step 7. DO not select this if you have already installed MSS with a TTS
and only wish to add the Magnifier component because this will install the
MSS component again. To add magnification in that case, select "Standard
installation" instead.

Install additional voice only: Select this if the device already has Mobile
Speak with one TTS voice or Mobile Magnifier installed already. This
installs only the TTS files, not Mobile Speak's main components. Then,
proceed to Step 7.

If you selected "Standard installation", the next window will let you select
the components to be installed. There are three checkboxes that you can Tab
to, and they are all checked by default. Use the Space key to change the state
of a checkbox, and press the "Next" button to continue:

Speech (required for new installations): Checked by default, remember that
this option does not only install the TTS but also the main component that
drives Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone. This means that if you already
have MSS or the standalone MMS installed, then this box should not be
checked when adding more TTS voices or the magnification and Braille
components later. Conversely, if you do not have any MSS or MMS component
installed on the device yet, then this checkbox should not be unchecked.

Screen magnification: Unchecked by default, you can tick this box if you
want Mobile Magnifier installed with speech at the same time on a device
that has no MSS or MMS components yet. If you want to add magnification
later, after successfully completing the installation of MSS with the speech
component, then run the installer again and select "Standard installation"
but leave only this box checked.

Braille support: Checked by default, this option should be marked if you
want Braille drivers and translation tables installed with speech on a
device that has no MSS or MMS components yet. If you want to add Braille
support later, after successfully completing the installation of MSS with
the speech component, then run the installer again and select "Standard
installation" but leave only this box checked. Note that even if you do not
have a Braille device, if you wish to read Braille formatted (BRF) files
using speech output, then the Braille support component must be installed.

In the "Choose install location" window, you will be asked to select a path
where the files are to be placed on your computer before being installed on
the Smartphone. As the Mobile Speak Smartphone application does not use up a
lot of space, you may accept the default location, and activate the "Next"
button. Otherwise, use the "Browse" button.

In the "Select installation options" window, you may set the device speaker
volume to the maximum level (unchecked by default), enable keypad sounds
(unchecked by default), and select the type of installer that you would like
to use. Select the "I would like to perform the default installation
(recommended)" radio button to use the installer specially designed to install
Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone remotely from the PC. Alternatively, select
the "I would like ActiveSync to perform the installation of Mobile Speak
Smartphone" radio button if you wish to install MSS like other applications.
Note that if you select the latter, you need to deal with a couple of prompts
on the device (without speech output or screen magnification) to complete
installation. Do not press the "Install" button yet.

Check that there is an existing internet connection before pressing Enter on
the "Install" button. You will need this in the next step if you want to
activate the products you are installing. Otherwise, not being connected to
the internet at this point does not matter.

The Remote Activation Wizard will then be launched. Starting with version 2.0,
Code Factory products for the Windows Mobile Standard platform can now be
activated using a first-of-its-kind user-centered licensing system that allows
any user to activate products on any device anytime and anywhere, .
Activations are registered to the user, not to the device, which means that
the user can transfer the product activations to another device on the same
platform. Note that this is not to say that you can use the product on more
than one Smartphone at the same time, unless you purchased product licenses
for more than one device, but you can freely move your product activations
from one Windows Mobile Smartphone to another as many times as you want. Note
also that you will need to activate every time a new version or build of the
software is installed. This does not mean you will need to pay for a new
activation, but merely that you will need to get activations from the Code
Factory licensing server for the products on the device once more. Activations
will be free for the products licensed to you. Screens of the Remote
Activation Wizard provide easy-to-follow instructions on how to use it, but if
you require a detailed, step-by-step explanation, please refer to section
2.4.1. Press Enter on the "Continue" link to activate the products you are
installing with a full or trial license, or the "Exit" link to skip this
wizard. Note that you can launch this Remote Activation Wizard on your PC
anytime after installation or on your device through the Activation Manager
described in Section 2.4.2. When run during installation, it will activate
only the components you are installing at that time. If launched after
installation, however, it will identify all installed products and activate
them at the same time which may be preferable if you plan to install more than
one TTS voice, for example. If you did not have an existing internet
connection when this wizard started or your firewall blocked the application,
you will be informed about the failure to connect, and asked whether you wish
to try again. If you want to skip the wizard for now and continue with
installation, press Enter on "No" or just press Alt+F4.

If you have selected the Default Installation in Step 8, a message appears
telling you to wait as the remote device (your Smartphone) is being
configured. This may take a few minutes. If you selected ActiveSync
installation type instead, you will be asked if you wish to install to the
default location for this application, which refers to the device main memory,
rather than the external storage card. Selecting the "Yes" button will install
MSS components to main memory, while pressing the "No" button gives you the
option to choose. Please continue to Step 13 if you are using ActiveSync
installation.

In the "Select a location to install" window that opens if the default
installer is used, you can choose from a combo box where you would like Mobile
Speak/Magnifier Smartphone to be installed - on the device main memory or the
storage card if one is available. Select the location with the Up and Down
arrow keys, and activate the "Next" button in this window. We strongly
recommend installing MSS components on a storage card. The installation will
begin and you will be asked to wait. Note that this will install the TTS
engine first. Then the installation of other components to the same location
will follow automatically. You do not need to do anything on the device or PC
while installation is ongoing, and you can skip now to Step 14 to read what
happens next.

However, if the ActiveSync installation is selected in Step 8, files of the
first component to be installed will be copied from your PC to the device, and
then a prompt asking you to select the install location appears on the
Smartphone, while there is an "OK" button on the PC screen which you should
not activate until you have dealt with the prompt on the Smartphone because
pressing "OK" will proceed to copy the files of the next component even before
the Smartphone is ready to receive them. Use the Left and Right arrow keys on
the Smartphone to change the selection in the prompt, remembering that
"Device" is always selected by default, and then pressing the Left Softkey to
continue. We suggest that you install all MSS components to a storage card if
you have one. After installation of the first component, press the "OK" button
on the PC to start installing the other components and repeat the steps you
performed on the Smartphone, until all components are installed successfully.

When installation of all Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone components is
completed successfully, the device will turn off and restart automatically.
Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone will run shortly after device startup. A
splash screen with an accompanying chime will indicate when components begin
to load into memory. If you selected to install Mobile Magnifier, screen
magnification will be enabled by default, but if you only added it after
installing Mobile Speak, you will need to enable magnification in Start >
Mobile Speak Smartphone > Magnification. If you installed the speech
component, wait for the TTS engine to load and do not press any key on the
device until you hear Mobile Speak Smartphone read the window in focus,
usually the Today Screen. Note that some Smartphones like the Motorola Q may
not auto-reboot because they initiate battery charging when they are connected
to the PC while they are turned off. If the phone has not rebooted after three
minutes, power it on manually. Note also that if you are prompted by your
phone to enter a PIN code or to run a virus scan, this may prevent the TTS
from starting and so you will not have speech output until those prompts are
dismissed.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! You are now ready to use Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone
and enjoy access to a Windows Mobile-powered device. If you want to start using
the Code Factory products you have installed, continue to Section 3.
2.1.1 Installation Scenarios
If you need help in determining which installation type and components to select
during installation, refer to the following table for the specific scenario that
applies to you. Note that the installation steps given in the previous section
should still be performed as enumerated, and that this section only tells you
what to select in Steps 5 and 6.
ScenarioWhat to Do
I want to install Mobile Speak with speech output, screen magnification,
and Braille output.Select "Standard installation" in Step 5, and chec
"Screen magnification" in Step 6.
I want to install Mobile Speak with speech output only.Select "Standard
installation" in Step 5, and uncheck "Braille support" in Step6.
I want to install Mobile Speak with speech output and screen
magnification.Select "Standard installation" in Step 5, then check "Screen
magnification" and uncheck "Braille support" in Step 6.
I want to install Mobile Speak with speech and Braille output.Select
"Standard installation" in Step 5, and leave all three boxes in their
default state in Step 6.
I want to install Mobile Magnifier with no speech output.Select "Install
screen magnification only" in Step 5, and continue to Step 7.
I have finished installing Mobile Speak and a TTS voice (regardless of
what other components were installed with speech), and now I want to add
another voice.Run the installer for the TTS voice you wish to add, select
"Install additional voice only" in Step 5, and continue to Step 7.
I have finished installing Mobile Speak with speech output (with or
without Braille support), and now I want to add screen magnification.Run
the installer again, select "Standard installation" in Step 5, then check
"Screen magnification" and uncheck "Speech" and "Braille support" in Step
6.
I have finished installing Mobile Speak with speech output (with or
without screen magnification), and now I want to add Braille support.Run
the installer again, select "Standard installation" in Step 5, and uncheck
"Speech" in Step 6.
I have finished installing Mobile Magnifier, but now I want to add speech
output.Run the installer for the TTS voice you wish to use for speech
output, select "Install additional voice only" in Step 5, and continue to
Step 7. After installation, restart the device.

2.1.2 Changing the Installed Voice
If you installed Mobile Speak Smartphone with your first choice for the voice
(referred to in this section as TTS1), but want to replace TTS1 with another
voice (referred to as TTS2) by uninstalling TTS1 rather than just adding TTS2,
then do the following:
Stop Mobile Speak Smartphone using either the "MSS Off" shortcut in the Start
menu or "Stop Mobile Speak Smartphone" in the MSS Control Panel opened by
going to Start > Mobile Speak Smartphone. Alternatively, you can restart the
phone and press Down arrow while the splash screen sound is playing. This will
abort MSS start-up.

Connect your device to the PC and establish an ActiveSync or Windows Mobile
Device Center partnership (guest or standard).

Select "Add/Remove Programs" in the Tools menu of ActiveSync on the PC, or in
"Programs and Services" in Windows Mobile Device Center, arrow to the name of
TTS1 as displayed in the list, Tab to the "remove" button and hit Enter to
uninstall it.

Download and run the installer for TTS 2. Remember to select "Install
additional voice only" when you are asked to choose which installation type to
use.

Restart the Smartphone. TTS2 should now be in use.
2.1.3 Installation Instructions for Mac OS and Linux computer Users
Mobile Speak installers for the Windows Mobile platform are EXE files that run
on Windows PCs. If you have a Macintosh or Linux machine, you will need to
extract files from the EXE installer file, copy some CAB files to the device,
and run them on the device with sighted help as there is no available speech
output yet.
For Mac OS users, refer to this page for programs you can install on your
computer that will extract the contents of EXE files. For Linux users, check out
the Orange tools at SynCE.org, or Wine Install from Wine HQ.
The files you need to copy and run on your device are named
MobileSpeakPocket.arm.CAB, RemoteServer.arm.CAB, and
MSP_[TTSName_Platform].arm.CAB where [TTSName_Platform] may be in the form
Fonix_USEnglish_Multivoice_Smartphone, for example. If you wish to install the
Magnification and Braille components, then the files you need to copy to the
device are named SP_Magnification_Component_English.arm.CAB and
Braille_Component.arm.CAB.
There are different ways of transferring files to your Windows Mobile device
from your Mac or Linux machine, but the following are most recommended:
Using a card reader for the type of card used on your device. Card readers
cost anywhere from 10 to 30 US dollars and can also be used to share files
between the mobile device and computer. Note that if your device is using
miniSD or microSD cards, an adapter for inserting such cards into an SD card
slot will usually come with the card when purchased. Thus, you can buy an
inexpensive SD card reader and just use the adapter for the type of card
supported by your device.
Using Bluetooth file transfer. Please refer to your computer's or Bluetooth
dongle's user's manual for more information.
To install the CAB files, you will need sighted assistance since there is no
speech output on the mobile device yet. Launch the file system browser
application on your device. This will be called File Explorer or File Manager.
Navigate to the CAB files and press Enter to run each. Note that you may be
prompted that the files are unsigned or from an untrusted publisher, and asked
if you wish to continue with the installation. Press the Left Softkey to proceed
with installation.
Remember that the CAB files must be installed in the following order:

RemoteServer.arm.CAB
MSP_[TTSName_Platform].arm.CAB
MobileSpeakPocket.arm.CAB
Either SP_Magnification_Component_English.arm.CAB or
Braille_Component.arm.CAB, or both in any order.
When you are done installing all CAB files, restart the device.
Note that you will need to use the Activation Manager on the device to activate
the installed products with a full or trial license. Please refer to Section
2.4.2 for more information.
2.2 Uninstalling Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone
You can uninstall Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone using either Microsoft
ActiveSync / Windows Mobile Device Center on your PC or the "Remove Programs"
tool on your Windows Mobile device. Note that it is not necessary to stop MSS
before uninstalling it.
To uninstall Mobile Speak Smartphone remotely using your PC:
Connect the device to your PC.

Establish an ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center partnership.

Focus on the ActiveSync window and go to Tools > Add/Remove Programs (Alt+T,
then M), or select "Programs and Services" in the main screen of Windows
Mobile Device Center, then choose Add/Remove Programs.

From the list of installed applications, select "Code Factory Mobile Speak
Smartphone". Note that this is also what you need to uninstall first even if
you installed Mobile Magnifier without the speech component.

Tab to the "Remove" button and press Enter. Press "OK" to confirm.
The device will automatically restart during the uninstallation process. Please
be patient and do not open Add/Remove Programs at least 60 seconds after a
partnership between your device and PC is established again. If the phone has
not restarted after three minutes, then restart it manually. Note that there are
some Smartphones that automatically start charging the battery when connected to
the USB and will not auto-reboot when it is turned off and charging has
initiated.
You will have to repeat the steps described above to remove the TTS, Braille
support or screen magnification component in whichever order you prefer. In Step
4, select the component you wish to remove, instead of "Code Factory Mobile
Speak Smartphone". The device will not restart after you uninstall any
component.
To uninstall Mobile Speak Smartphone on the device:
Activate the Start menu (Left Softkey in the Today Screen).

Navigate to "Settings" and press Enter.

In the list of items, navigate to "Remove Programs" and press Enter.

Move to "Code Factory Mobile Speak Smartphone" in the list of applications,
press the Right Softkey to open the Menu, arrow to the "Remove" option and
press Enter to activate it. Note that this is also what you need to uninstall
even if you installed Mobile Magnifier without the speech component.
When the device has booted up, establish a partnership with the PC and use
Add/Remove Programs in the Tools Menu of ActiveSync or in "Programs and
Services" in Windows Mobile Device Center on your PC to uninstall the TTS,
Braille support or screen magnification components. Note that you may still see
"Code Factory Mobile Speak Smartphone" in the list of programs for your device
according to ActiveSync / Windows Mobile Device Center. If so, remove it first
using ActiveSync / Windows Mobile Device Center, before proceeding to uninstall
any component.
2.3 Installing Upgrades
Before installing the new version of Mobile Speak Smartphone, it is important
that you properly uninstall the current MSS version on your device. Performing a
hard reset is not necessary, unless recommended by Code Factory technical
support or specifically mentioned in the release announcement to be a required
step.
The easiest way to perform a hard reset is to go to:
Start > Accessories > Clear Storage on most Smartphones, particularly those
made by HTC,
Start > Settings > Security > Hard Reset on Samsung phones,
Start > Settings > Security > Master Clear on Pantech phones,
Start > System Tools > Master Reset on Motorola phones.
Then follow the instructions on the screen. Note that a hard reset will delete
all the data you stored and applications you installed (not the ones that come
pre-installed),, so this should only be done as a last resort to resolve an
issue or when advised/requested by Code Factory.
Refer to Section 2.2 for instructions on how to uninstall Mobile speak/Magnifier
Smartphone. Then follow the instructions given in Section 2.1 to install the
latest version of MSS / MMS. If you run into problems uninstalling &/or
installing, please write to support@codefactory.es for assistance.
2.4 Activating Code Factory Products for Windows Mobile
Starting with version 2.0, registered users of Mobile Speak and Mobile Magnifier
for Windows Mobile Smartphones can benefit from a user-centered licensing
system.
You now have full use of Code Factory products anytime, anywhere, and on any
supported Smartphone. This new system allows you to activate the products
installed on your device with a full or trial license using any of the
following:
A computer with an internet connection.
Your mobile phone and either a cellular or Wi-Fi connection to the internet.
Your phone by simply sending an SMS/text message.
Moreover, since the license you paid for is registered to you, the user, rather
than the device, you can now change devices whenever you want or need to do so.
This means that you can easily transfer the product and its activation from one
device to another by deactivating/unregistering the product installed on Device
A, and then reactivating it after you have installed it on Device B, absolutely
free of charge. Therefore, this allows you to:
Upgrade to a new Windows Mobile Smartphone anytime.
Use another Smartphone when you send in your device for repair or let a family
member/friend borrow it.
Switch to a new Smartphone if your phone was lost or damaged.
What makes this new licensing system even more exciting and unique in the world
of access solutions for mobile devices is that you can change devices more than
just once, and you can activate products licensed to you, with or without the
assistance of Code Factory and its distributors.
To read more about this user-centered licensing system, refer to the Frequently
Asked Questions page or write to sales@codefactory.es.
Sections 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 will explain how you can activate products on your
device, migrate from the old licensing system used in versions before v2.0,
obtain trial licenses, and deactivate licensed products so that you can transfer
them to another Smartphone.
2.4.1 Using Remote Activation Wizard on Your Computer
The Remote Activation Wizard is a web-based application installed on the
computer you used to install Code Factory products for Windows Mobile devices.
It is launched automatically during installation of the product, and can be
started manually by selecting its shortcut at Start > All Programs > Code
Factory > Mobile Speak Smartphone [TTS name]. Note that [TTS name] refers to the
TTS name that appears in the file name of the installer you used, even if you
installed Mobile Magnifier without the speech component.
Remember that this application needs to connect to the internet in order to
work. If it cannot connect, you will be advised to check your connection and
whether your firewall is blocking the application. Then it asks you if you wish
to try again (select "yes"), or abort the process (select "no").
2.4.1.1 Activating Products Using Your Computer
With the new licensing system, fully registered users are each given a unique
eight-character User ID when they purchase a Code Factory product license. This
is what they use to activate all the products licensed to them and installed on
their device. They do not need to keep record of serial numbers and the matching
license codes, or to enter them manually on the device.
If you have been a licensed user of Mobile Speak Smartphone before version 2.0,
you must first obtain a User ID and associate with it all the product licenses
you currently own. To do this, refer to section 2.4.1.2.
If you do not have a User ID but wish to evaluate Code Factory products on your
Windows Mobile Smartphone, then you can obtain a 30-day trial activation for
free. Note that even without the trial activation, Mobile Speak and Mobile
Magnifier will still install and work on your Smartphone, but these products
will stop working and you will be asked to register the products after ten
minutes following each reboot of the device. Therefore, if you wish to evaluate
the products continuously for 30 days, please follow the steps outlined below.
Note that the following steps can also be performed if the Remote Activation
Wizard is launched during installation of Mobile Speak or Mobile Magnifier for
Windows Mobile Smartphones (mentioned in Step 10 in Section 2.1).
Make sure that your computer is connected to the internet, that your mobile
device is connected to your computer, and that an ActiveSync partnership has
been established between your computer and device.

If you have not yet done so, install the latest version of Mobile Speak or
Mobile Magnifier for Windows Mobile Smartphones on your device. Refer to
Section 2.3 for information on how to install upgrades.

Launch the Remote Activation Wizard on your PC. Note that this is the same
wizard launched during installation, so if you have already activated the
products as you were installing them, then there is no need to launch it again
after installation for that purpose.

The first screen of the Remote Activation Wizard shows introductory text
explaining what the wizard does and what you need to do before continuing with
product activation. When you are ready to begin the activation process, press
Enter on the "Click here to continue" link in the wizard's first screen.

If the wizard was launched after installation, then it will first check which
Code Factory products are installed on your mobile device. You will be asked
to wait for a while, during which you should not disconnect or power off your
device.

You will be presented with four radio buttons describing the options available
to you. The first one, "I am a registered user and I already have a User ID"
is pressed by default, and you should leave this selected if you are a
registered user and your product licenses have been associated with a User ID
that uniquely identifies you as the owner of those licenses. User IDs are
given to new users by the local distributor or Code Factory Sales staff when a
product license is purchased, while those who got a license before Version 2.0
can generate their User ID on their own. On the other hand, if you are a new
and unregistered user of the Code Factory products you are installing, select
the third radio button, "I want to try the software for 30 days". Click on
"Continue" and proceed to Step 7 if you already have a User ID (not if you are
just about to get one), or skip to Step 8 if you want to obtain a trial
activation.

If you selected the first of the four radio buttons to get full activations
for the products licensed to you, you must enter your eight-character User ID
in the edit field provided in the next screen. User IDs are case-sensitive.
Please make sure that you have typed the User ID correctly before clicking on
"Continue". Proceed to Step 9.

If you selected the third of the four radio buttons to obtain a trial
activation, then the next screen will ask you to enter your email address,
full name, and country. All the information you provide is subject to Code
Factory's Privacy Policy. The Code Factory licensing server will send an email
to the address you enter, so please make sure that you type in a valid email
address or the activation process may encounter an error. You will also be
asked whether you wish to subscribe to Code Factory's mailing list for the
products you are activating. This option is disabled by default, so by
checking the box for it, you agree to let Code Factory subscribe the email
address you provide to its user forum for this product. You can also subscribe
to any mailing list at this page. Click on "Continue" to proceed to the next
step.

You will be asked to wait for a few minutes while the wizard collects required
information from the mobile device. DO not disconnect or power off the device
during this time. No information will be sent to Code Factory without your
explicit consent and you will be able to examine all information retrieved
from your device before it is sent.

If successfully obtained, all the information needed to activate your device
is displayed in a new window. If you approve its being sent to Code Factory's
servers, then click on "Continue". Otherwise, press Alt+F4 and the activation
process will be aborted.

All the Code Factory products currently installed on your device will be
activated, and information about each activation will be displayed in a new
screen. If a full license was purchased for a product, it will be permanently
activated. If no license is available for a product, it will be activated to
work on trial for thirty days at no charge to the user. Further, if you had
chosen to activate with a trial license, an email will be sent to the address
you provided, giving the details about the trial period, along with other
vital information about using Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone.

Click on "Exit" to close the wizard.
2.4.1.2 Obtaining a User ID
If you have purchased a license for Mobile Speak Smartphone prior to version 2.0
and the introduction of the user-centered licensing system, then you need to
obtain a User ID with which all your registered product licenses and device
activations will be associated. To do this:
Make sure that your computer is connected to the internet, that your mobile
device is connected to your computer, and that an ActiveSync partnership has
been established between your computer and device.

If you have not yet done so, install the latest version of Mobile Speak or
Mobile Magnifier for Windows Mobile Smartphones on your device. Refer to
Section 2.1 for installation instructions.

Either use the Remote Activation Wizard started automatically during
installation or launch it after installation using its shortcut on your PC.

Read the preliminary text and instructions in the first screen of the wizard,
and when you are ready to proceed to the next step, press Enter on the "Click
here to continue" link.

You will be presented with four radio buttons describing the options available
to you. Select the second one, "I am a registered user but do not have a User
ID", and click on "Continue". Do not select this radio button if you have not
yet purchased any product license before Version 2.0, as you will only get an
error. Please contact your local distributor if you wish to become a
registered owner of Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone and a User ID will be
generated for you.

The next screen will display important information about upgrading to the
User-Centered Licensing system. Please read the text carefully before pressing
Enter on the "Click here to begin the migration process" link.

The server will check which product licenses are associated with the device
based on the old licensing system. Then a new screen opens and it will list
the serial number and license number pairs registered to your device. Please
check these details. In the same screen, you are asked to provide personal
information that will be linked with your User ID and product activations.
Please fill out all fields and make sure that you enter accurate information,
especially in the required fields. Then click on "Continue" to submit this
information to the Code Factory server. You will find a link to our Privacy
Policy in that screen as well.

If license migration is successful, a unique eight-character User ID is
automatically generated for you and displayed in the next screen. A table
listing all associated product activations will be presented as well.
Moreover, an email with your User ID and other vital information about your
product activations will be sent to you at the address you provided.

Press Enter on the "Click here to restart Remote Activation Wizard" link in
order to activate the products installed on your device with your User ID. For
instructions on activating products installed on your device with your new
User ID and using Remote Activation Wizard on your PC, refer to Section
2.4.1.1.
Important:
Please keep a copy of this User ID for your reference. You will need this User
ID in order to activate your Code Factory products. Remember that this User ID
must never be shared with other people.

If you get a message at the end of the migration process that no licenses have
been found for your device, please email us at sales@codefactory.es.

If you own licenses to more than one TTS, the new licensing system identifies
which one is the voice you purchased with Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone
and is thus registered as your primary TTS, and which ones are licensed as
"second voice". This means that if you want to activate Mobile Speak or Mobile
Magnifier on your device, you must have the primary TTS installed, and not
just the "second voice" TTS. Therefore, you cannot have the primary TTS on one
device and only the "second voice" TTS on another.

If you own two devices, each with a full license to a Code Factory product,
run the Migration Wizard on each device, and then contact Code Factory,
providing the two User IDs that have been generated for you. These User IDs
will be merged into one.
2.4.1.3 Deactivating Products Installed on a Mobile Device Using Your Computer
If you wish to transfer your product activations to another Windows Mobile
Smartphone, you must first deactivate them from the device that is currently
associated with your User ID. Unless you paid for licenses to use the product on
more than one device, you can only use Mobile Speak or Mobile Magnifier on one
Windows Mobile Smartphone at a time. Only after properly deactivating the
products from the first Smartphone will you be able to use them with your full
license on another.
Note that in cases where your device was lost or damaged before you could
deactivate the products, you need to contact Code Factory and provide
documentation certifying that the device was stolen or replaced by the phone
carrier / manufacturer / vendor. Code Factory will then deactivate the products
from that device manually on the licensing server and allow you to activate them
on your new device.
To deactivate licensed code Factory products on your Smartphone:
Make sure that your computer is connected to the internet, that your mobile
device is connected to your computer, and that an ActiveSync partnership has
been established between your computer and device.

Launch the Remote Activation Wizard on your PC.

The wizard will then check which Code Factory products are installed on your
mobile device. You will be asked to wait for a while, during which you should
not disconnect or power off your device.

You will be presented with four radio buttons describing the options available
to you. Select the fourth one, "I want to deactivate my device and move to
another device", and click on "Continue".

You must enter your eight-character User ID in the edit field provided in the
next screen. User IDs are case-sensitive. Please make sure that you have typed
the User ID correctly before clicking on "Continue".

All the Code Factory products on your device and which you selected in Step 4
will be deactivated, and information about each deactivation will be displayed
in a new screen. This means you are now free to install and activate these
products on another device.

Click on "Exit" to close the wizard.
2.4.2 Activation Manager
After installing Mobile Speak or Mobile Magnifier on your Windows Mobile
Smartphone, you can activate the products, obtain a trial license for them, or
deactivate them later from that device so that you can use them on another,
through the Activation Manager in the MSS Control Panel. This Control Panel can
be opened using the "Mobile Speak Smartphone" shortcut found in the Today Screen
or in the Start menu. Once opened, NAVIGATE to "Activation Manager" and press
Enter.
Activation Manager will communicate with the code Factory licensing server using
your preferred method of connection:
Via the internet using an ActiveSync partnership between your device and a PC
with an existing internet connection.
Via the internet using your device's connection with a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Via the internet using your mobile phone's internet service. Please consult
your mobile phone provider about configurations on how to get this to work, as
well as any charges for using the service.
Via SMS/text message. Please consult your mobile phone provider regarding
charges for sending and receiving SMS from international numbers. Refer also
to our list of mobile phone networks confirmed to work with SMS activations.
Note that if you are fully licensed to use the products but do not have a User
ID yet, you need to use the Remote Activation Wizard application installed on
your PC to obtain a unique User ID and associate your serial number and license
number pairs to it. Refer to Section 2.4.1.2 for further information.
2.4.2.1 Activating Products Using Your Mobile Device
With the new licensing system, fully registered users are each given a unique
eight-character User ID when they purchase a Code Factory product license. This
is what they use to activate all the products licensed to them and installed on
their device. They do not need to keep record of serial numbers and the matching
license codes, or to enter them manually on the device.
If you do not have a User ID but wish to evaluate Code Factory products on your
Windows Mobile Smartphone, then you can obtain a 30-day trial activation for
free. Note that even without the trial activation, Mobile Speak and Mobile
Magnifier will still install and work on your Smartphone, but these products
will stop working and you will be asked to register the products after ten
minutes following each reboot of the device.
Please follow these steps to activate products using your Smartphone.
Make sure your device is connected to the internet. If the connection is to be
made through ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center, make sure your
computer is connected to the internet, that your mobile device is connected to
your computer, and that a partnership has been established between your
computer and device. If your device is connecting to the internet through a
Wi-Fi hotspot/router, or through the internet service provided by a mobile
phone operator, make sure the device is connected and able to retrieve web
pages. If you are activating via SMS, make sure that your Smartphone is not in
flight mode and that the coverage / signal level is satisfactory for sending
and receiving SMS.

Open Activation Manager on your mobile device. A list of installed products
and their current activation status will be presented.

Press the Left Softkey to open a menu of available options.

Press Enter on "Activate my device".

You will be asked if you have a User ID. Press the Left Softkey for "Yes" and
proceed to Step 6. Press the Right Softkey for "No" and skip to Step 7.

If you pressed the Left Softkey in Step 5, you will need to enter your User ID
in the next screen. If you have previously activated a product on this device,
it should already be in the edit field, so all you need do is press the Left
Softkey. If it is not in the edit field, enter it and press the Left Softkey.
User IDs are case-sensitive but as the letters in User IDs are all in
capitals, uppercase input is automatically set in this edit field.

The next window tells you that technical information about your device on
which activations are based will be collected. Then you are prompted to select
which connection method you wish to use to connect to the Code Factory
licensing server. Use the Left and Right arrow keys to select "Internet with
cellular, Wi-Fi or ActiveSync connection" or "SMS / text message". You may
also toggle whether the information collected from your device is displayed
before being sent by pressing Down arrow to find a checkbox that enables or
disables the viewing of collected information. This is checked by default.
When you're ready to continue, hit the Left Softkey.

If you have chosen to have your device's information displayed before it is
sent to Code Factory, it will be shown in the next screen and you can approve
its sending by pressing the Left Softkey.

You will then be warned that you may be charged, if your connection is over
the cellular network, for the connection. If you had chosen not to have the
information displayed, you will immediately receive this warning. Note that
this warning does not mean that you will be charged for using Activation
Manager, or that it is using a mobile internet connection. This warning is
merely to alert you to the possibility that you may be charged and is present
even if you are using ActiveSync or another means that is not operated by your
mobile carrier.

Press the Left Softkey when you are ready to send the collected information to
Code Factory. Do not exit the current window while the information is being
sent and while your device is waiting to receive the product activations you
requested.

After a length of time depending on the means you have used to activate
(internet or SMS), you should hear that your activations have been
successfully updated. All the Code Factory products on your device will be
activated and you may now use the product for an unlimited amount of time if
you own a full license to it. IF an installed product is not yet licensed to
you, it will be activated on a free 30-day trial license.

You may now press the Left Softkey and will be returned to the main screen of
the activation manager. You can then check the reported activation status for
each product in the list. Press the Right Softkey when you are ready to exit
the Activation Manager.
2.4.2.2 Deactivating Products Installed on a Device Using the Device Itself
If you wish to transfer your product activations to another Windows Mobile
Smartphone, you must first deactivate them from the device that is currently
associated with your User ID. Unless you paid for licenses to use the product on
more than one device, you can only use Mobile Speak or Mobile Magnifier on one
Windows Mobile Smartphone at a time. Only after properly deactivating the
products from the first Smartphone will you be able to use them with your full
license on another.
Note that in cases where your device was lost or damaged before you could
deactivate the products, you need to contact Code Factory and provide
documentation certifying that the device was stolen or replaced by the phone
carrier / manufacturer / vendor. Code Factory will then deactivate the products
from that device manually on the licensing server and allow you to activate them
on your new device.
To deactivate licensed code Factory products on your Smartphone:
Make sure your device is connected to the internet. If the connection is to be
made through ActiveSync, make sure your computer is connected to the internet,
that your mobile device is connected to your computer, and that an ActiveSync
partnership has been established between your computer and device. If your
device is connecting to the internet through a Wi-Fi hotspot/router, or
through the internet service provided by a mobile phone operator, make sure
the device is connected and able to retrieve web pages. If you are activating
via SMS, make sure that your Smartphone is not in flight mode and that the
coverage / signal level is satisfactory for sending and receiving SMS.

Open Activation Manager on your mobile device. A list of installed products
and their current activation status will be presented.

Press the Left Softkey to open a menu of available options.

Arrow down to "Transfer activations" and press Enter.

You will be asked for your User ID. Since you have previously activated a
product on this device, it should already be in the edit field, so all you
need do is press the Left Softkey. However, if it is not in the edit field,
enter it and press the Left Softkey. User IDs are case-sensitive but as the
letters in User IDs are all in capitals, uppercase input is automatically set
in this edit field.

The next window tells you that technical information about your device on
which activations are based will be collected. Then you are prompted to select
which connection method you wish to use to connect to the Code Factory
licensing server. Use the Left and Right arrow keys to select "internet with
cellular, Wi-Fi, or ActiveSync connection" or "SMS / text message". You may
also toggle whether the information collected from your device is displayed
before being sent by pressing Down arrow to find a checkbox that enables or
disables the viewing of collected information. This is checked by default.
When you're ready to continue, hit the Left Softkey.

If you have chosen to have your device's information displayed before it is
sent to Code Factory, it will be shown in the next screen and you can approve
its sending by pressing the Left Softkey. You will then be warned that you may
be charged, if your connection is over the cellular network, for the
connection. If you had chosen not to have the information displayed, you will
immediately receive this warning. Note that this warning does not mean that
you will be charged for using Activation Manager, or that it is using a mobile
internet connection. This warning is merely to alert you to the possibility
that you may be charged and is present even if you are using ActiveSync or
another means that is not operated by your mobile carrier.

After a length of time depending on the means you have used to activate
(internet or SMS), you should hear that your products have been successfully
deactivated. You can now install and activate them on another device.

You may now press the Left Softkey and will be returned to the main screen of
the activation manager. Press the Right Softkey when you are ready to exit the
Activation Manager.
3 Performing Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone Commands
Every Smartphone based on the Standard Edition of the Windows Mobile operating
system has a five-way navigation key to perform the function of the Up, Down,
Left and Right arrow keys, as well as Enter when the center of the button is
pressed. In addition to the Dial/Send key and the Hang Up/End Call key, there
are Left and Right Softkeys that activate whichever control is assigned to them
in any given window. When reading soft key assignments, Mobile Speak Smartphone
refers to the left soft key as "Left Soft" and the right soft key as "Right
Soft".
Further, Smartphones have two keys called Back and Home. The Back key can be
used to exit windows, menus, and dialogs like the Escape key on a Windows PC, to
move up a directory level in a tree view or to the window previously in focus,
and to delete the character to the left of the cursor like the Backspace key in
Windows. When MSS or MMS is not running, the Home key places the focus on the
Today (or Home) Screen. Note that with MSS or MMS running, however, this
function is performed by pressing the Hang-up key.
Mobile Speak and Mobile Magnifier commands on Windows Mobile Smartphones consist
of the Home key as a modifier. This means that you need to press and release the
Home key first, and Then press a different key to perform the assigned command,
or press the Home key again to toggle the modifier off. Note that some commands
require that you press and hold the other key for half a second before releasing
it, in order to perform a function different from when that key is pressed and
released immediately. Most commands turn off the modifier after they are
executed. But for commands that can be used repeatedly to cycle through possible
values or options, e.g., the command to change the speech rate and to cycle
through the last five previously spoken text, the Windows key remains toggled on
for three seconds during which the other key in the command can be pressed to
repeat the function it performs. A beep will indicate that the modifier has
turned off. On the other hand, to indicate that the Home key is enabled, MSS
will say "Home" when it is pressed.
Some Smartphones have a standard phone keypad with four rows of three keys: 1,
2, 3 in the first; 4, 5, 6 in the second; 7, 8, 9 in the third; and *, 0, # in
the last. This keypad is used to dial numbers and input text. Other Smartphones
feature a QWERTY keyboard with a numeric keypad area activated by pressing a
function key before any key in a set of twelve that may be considered THE KEYS
IN A STANDARD PHONE KEYPAD. For example, this numeric area may consist of 'w',
'e', 'r' for 1, 2, 3; 's', 'd', 'f' for 4, 5, 6; 'x', 'c', 'v' for 7, 8, 9; a
key under 'c' for 0, 'a' for * and 'g' for #. Still other Smartphones have both
a standard phone keypad and a QWERTY keyboard.
MSS supports all such Smartphones and commands can be performed using
combinations of the Home key and any key on the standard phone keypad (short and
long press) and the equivalent numeric keys on a QWERTY keyboard. Note that on
Smartphones that have a QWERTY keyboard, pressing the Home key automatically
tells MSS or MMS that the next key pressed will be recognized by its
corresponding numeric function, if any. It is possible that this may not work
properly in some applications, however, and in which case, you either enable the
numeric functions of the QWERTY keyboard before performing the command, or
execute the equivalent Home + letter commands used on external QWERTY keyboards
as listed in Section 3.2.
3.1 Command Layouts
Starting with version 2.0, commands used in Mobile Speak Smartphone are now
grouped, according to function, into different layouts. The command Home + 5
lets you switch to another layout. Remember that since this cycles through the
available command layouts, you do not need to press the Home key again when you
want to repeat the command.
The different command layouts are as follows:
Default
This layout includes the most frequently used commands and screen reader
functions such as those for reading displayed information (e.g., date and
time, status icons, current softkey assignments), repeating and spelling the
last spoken text, reading text by word, opening the Mobile Speak Control
Panel, as well as the commands for changing the most commonly configured
speech settings (e.g., rate, volume, and active TTS voice) are available in
this command layout that is selected immediately after installation of Mobile
Speak smartphone.

Advanced Reading
This layout provides different text navigation commands for reading the
contents of edit controls and web pages by word, sentence or paragraph. It
also lets you read the text continuously from the start or the current cursor
position. Further, it includes commands for moving the cursor to the start or
end of the text.

Settings
This layout consists of the commands that configure MSS settings on the fly
wherever you are on the phone's interface. These include settings that affect
verbosity and punctuation level, the user mode which provides predefined
settings for screen reader options, the user dictionary for changing
TTS-specific pronunciation of words, and many more.

Magnification
This layout is selected by default if you install Mobile Magnifier without the
speech component. It offers several hotkeys for controlling the magnifier
including the zoom level, color schemes, magnification layout, auto panning
feature, font smoothing, as well as commands to move the magnifier to
different parts of the screen.
3.1.1 Default Layout Commands
CommandFunction
Home + Left SoftkeyRead status information (number of missed calls and
unread text messages, signal strength and network operator, battery level
and charging state, ActiveSync and Bluetooth state, volume level, last
caller, upcoming appointments and active tasks)
Home + Right SoftkeyRead date and time currently set on the device
Home + BackQuit current application (i.e., unload it from memory rather
than minimize its window and let it run in the background)
Home + DialChange the active TTS voice (Note: this will not open if there
is only one installed voice)
Home + EnterRead current softkey assignments
Home + UpRead text from the start (if performed in an edit field or web
page) / Increase speech volume by one level from 0 to 10 (if performed
elsewhere)
Home + DownRead text from current cursor position (if performed in an edit
field or web page) / Decrease speech volume by one level from 10 to 0 (if
performed elsewhere)
Home + RightMove to next word/link and read it (if performed in an edit
field or web page) / Increase speech rate by one level from 0 to 20 (if
performed elsewhere)
Home + LeftMove to previous word/link and read it (if performed in an edit
field or web page) / Decrease speech rate by one level from 20 to 0 (if
performed elsewhere)
Home + 1Open the MSS Control Panel
Home + 1 (hold)Connect to, or disconnect from, default Braille device
Home + 2Open the MSS Switch to App dialog (for opening the window of an
application currently running in the background or to unload it from
memory; note: this will not open if there is no minimized program)
Home + 3Activate the MSS review cursor (to explore areas of the screen not
selectable using system focus; note: press Home key to toggle the review
cursor off)
Home + 5Change command layout
Home + 7Spell last spoken text (this cycles through the five previous text
strings rendered in speech)
Home + 8Text Capture (to copy the text in the control currently in focus
and place it on a read-only edit field where text navigation commands can
be used)
Home + 9Repeat last spoken text (this cycles through the five previous
text strings rendered in speech)
Home + 0Toggle speech mute
Home + 0 (hold)Route audio to a paired Bluetooth headset (Note: The
Headset profile must first be selected in start > Settings > Profiles)
Home + *Read the item or line of text currently in focus
Home + #Read the contents of the whole screen (use this to read status
indicators like the number of characters entered in a text message being
composed)
Home (pressed when the screen is being read)Interrupt speech (Note: either
wait three seconds for the this key to toggle off as command modifier, or
press it again)
Home (pressed when phone is ringing)Mute ringtone to hear caller ID (Note:
You only have to press this key once and the caller ID will be repeated
with a two-second interval between readings.)
Home (pressed four times quickly within ten seconds)Toggle Command
Describer Mode

3.1.2 Advanced Reading Layout Commands
CommandFunction
Home + Left SoftkeyRead status information (number of missed calls and
unread text messages, signal strength and network operator, battery level
and charging state, ActiveSync and Bluetooth state, volume level, last
caller, upcoming appointments and active tasks)
Home + Right SoftkeyRead date and time currently set on the device
Home + BackQuit current application (i.e., unload it from memory rather
than minimize its window and let it run in the background)
Home + DialChange the active TTS voice (Note: this will not open if there
is only one installed voice)
Home + EnterRead current softkey assignments
Home + UpIncrease speech volume by one level (from 0 to 10)
Home + DownDecrease speech volume by one level (from 10 to 0)
Home + RightIncrease speech rate by one level (from 0 to 20)
Home + LeftDecrease speech rate by one level (from 20 to 0)
Home + 1Move to the previous word and read it
Home + 2Open the MSS Switch to App dialog (for opening the window of an
application currently running in the background or to unload it from
memory; note: this will not open if there is no minimized program)
Home + 3Move to the next word and read it
Home + 4Move to the previous sentence and read it
Home + 4 (hold)Move to the previous paragraph and read it
Home + 5Change command layout
Home + 6Move to the next sentence and read it
Home + 6 (hold)Move to the next paragraph and read it
Home + 7Read text continuously from the start to the end
Home + 7 (hold)Move to the top of the edit field or web page
Home + 8Text Capture (to copy the text in the control currently in focus
and place it on a read-only edit field where text navigation commands can
be used)
Home + 9Read text continuously from the current cursor position to the end
Home + 9 (hold)Move to the bottom of the edit field or web page
Home + 0Toggle speech mute
Home + 0 (hold)Route audio to a paired Bluetooth headset (Note: The
Headset profile must first be selected in start > Settings > Profiles)
Home + *Read the item or line of text currently in focus
Home + #Read the contents of the whole screen (use this to read status
indicators like the number of characters entered in a text message being
composed)
Home (pressed when the screen is being read)Interrupt speech (Note: either
wait three seconds for the this key to toggle off as command modifier, or
press it again)
Home (pressed when phone is ringing)Mute ringtone to hear caller ID (Note:
You only have to press this key once and the caller ID will be repeated
with a two-second interval between readings.)
Home (pressed four times quickly within ten seconds)Toggle Command
Describer Mode

3.1.3 Settings Layout
CommandFunction
Home + Left SoftkeyRead status information (number of missed calls and
unread text messages, signal strength and network operator, battery level
and charging state, ActiveSync and Bluetooth state, volume level, last
caller, upcoming appointments and active tasks)
Home + Right SoftkeyRead date and time currently set on the device
Home + BackQuit current application (i.e., unload it from memory rather
than minimize its window and let it run in the background)
Home + DialChange the active TTS voice (Note: this will not open if there
is only one installed voice)
Home + EnterRead current softkey assignments
Home + UpIncrease speech volume by one level (from 0 to 10)
Home + DownDecrease speech volume by one level (from 10 to 0)
Home + RightIncrease speech rate by one level (from 0 to 20)
Home + LeftDecrease speech rate by one level (from 20 to 0)
Home + 1Open the MSS Control Panel
Home + 1 (hold)Connect to, or disconnect from, default Braille device
Home + 2Open the MSS Switch to App dialog (for opening the window of an
application currently running in the background or to unload it from
memory; note: this will not open if there is no minimized program)
Home + 3Change graphics verbosity (this affects whether MSS sees "All"
graphics, only "Labeled" graphics, or "None" when the review cursor is
active)
Home + 4Open the user dictionary for the current TTS voice (to change the
pronunciation of words)
Home + 5Change command layout
Home + 6Change Keyboard Echo (this affects speech output while entering
text; set to "None", "Characters", "Words", or "Both Characters and
Words")
Home + 7Change spell mode (this applies when using the Spell Last Text
command and when reading text by character; set to "Normal" or "Phonetic")
Home + 9Change punctuation verbosity (this affects how verbose speech
output should be when reading punctuation symbols in text; set to "None",
"Some", "Most", or "All")
Home + 0Toggle speech mute
Home + 0 (hold)Route audio to a paired Bluetooth headset (Note: The
Headset profile must first be selected in start > Settings > Profiles)
Home + *Change Secret Mode (this affects speech output while typing in
password edit fields; set to "Say star", "Speak characters", or "Silent")
Home + #Change active user mode (to select a defined set of verbosity
settings; use "Beginner" for the most verbose, "Intermediate", or
"Advanced" for the least verbose)
Home (pressed when the screen is being read)Interrupt speech (Note: either
wait three seconds for the this key to toggle off as command modifier, or
press it again)
Home (pressed when phone is ringing)Mute ringtone to hear caller ID (Note:
You only have to press this key once and the caller ID will be repeated
with a two-second interval between readings.)
Home (pressed four times quickly within ten seconds)Toggle Command
Describer Mode

3.1.4 Magnification Layout Commands
CommandFunction
Home + Left SoftkeyRead status information if speech is available (number
of missed calls and unread text messages, signal strength and network
operator, battery level and charging state, ActiveSync and Bluetooth
state, volume level, last caller, upcoming appointments and active tasks)
Home + Right SoftkeyRead date and time currently set on the device if
speech is available
Home + BackQuit current application (i.e., unload it from memory rather
than minimize its window and let it run in the background)
Home + DialToggle speech mute
Home + UpIncrease zoom level by one notch (from 1.5x to 16x)
Home + DownDecrease zoom level by one notch (from 16x to 1.5x)
Home + 1Open the Control Panel screen for Magnifier options
Home + 2Move the magnifier to focus on the window title
Home + 3Toggle automatic panning of text
Home + 4Toggle the presence of borders around the magnified area
Home + 5Change command layout
Home + 6Change the color scheme (select from "no scheme", "black and
white", "gray scale", "black and white inverted", "256K colors", "16K
colors", and "inverted colors")
Home + 7Change the magnification layout (where either the entire screen is
magnified or just areas of interest such as the title and softkeys)
Home + 8Move the magnifier to focus on the softkeys
Home + 9Toggle font and graphics smoothing (this improves readability of
magnified screen contents, making it appear less jagged)
Home + 0Enable/disable magnification (Note: this does not affect speech
output if available)
left/Right/Up/Down arrow keys (hold)Move the magnifier to the
left/right/top/bottom without moving the system focus (Note: once an arrow
key is pressed and held to enable this feature, the Magnifier can be moved
using short presses of the arrow keys, until a second has passed that no
arrow key is pressed)
Home (pressed when the screen is being read)Interrupt speech (Note: either
wait three seconds for the this key to toggle off as command modifier, or
press it again; this works only if you have the speech component
installed)
Home (pressed when phone is ringing)Mute ringtone to hear caller ID (Note:
this works only if you have the speech component installed)
Home (pressed four times quickly within ten seconds)Toggle Command
Describer Mode (Note: this works only if you have the speech component
installed)

3.2 External Keyboard Commands
Although you will be able to perform all tasks with the keys on the Smartphone,
you may want to use an external QWERTY or Braille keyboard to work more
effectively with your device. These keyboards usually connect through Bluetooth.
Mobile Speak Smartphone supports these external keyboards, and you can use them
not only for input but also for controlling the Windows Mobile device.
Once the connection between the keyboard and your device is established, you may
start typing characters on the keyboard and Mobile Speak Smartphone will respond
normally. MSS commands are performed on an external QWERTY keyboard using the
same key combinations involving numbers or letters as on the Smartphone itself,
but instead of the Home key, the Windows key is the command modifier. For
example, Windows + D reads the current date and time set on the Smartphone.
Braille commands are specific to the Braille device in use and the keys
available on it. For more information, please read the MSS Braille Support
User's Guide.
The following table lists the key combinations to use on an external QWERTY
keyboard. Note that the Home + number commands will also work on such a
keyboard. On the other hand, even if your Smartphone has a QWERTY keyboard,
pressing the letter keys that correspond to numbers during numeric input will be
recognized by MSS for their number functions even if you do not activate numeric
mode. For example, if the letter d enters the number 5 on your Smartphone, Home
+ d on the Smartphone's built-in QWERTY keyboard will perform the Home + 5
command (Change Command Layout). However, Windows + d on an external QWERTY
keyboard, if the control in focus allows input of letters, will perform the Home
+ d command (Read Date and Time). Note that it is possible though that in some
applications, Home + number combinations using the built-in QWERTY keyboard may
not work. In this case, either enable the numeric function of the keyboard
before pressing the Home key, or use the following Home + letter command
equivalents.
CommandDefaultAdvanced ReadingSettingsMagnification
Home + aSwitch to AppSwitch to AppSwitch to AppSwitch to application
Home + bToggle BrailleToggle BrailleToggle BrailleToggle borders
Home + cOpen Control PanelOpen Control PanelOpen Control PanelOpen
Magnifier configuration screen
Home + dRead date and timeRead date and timeRead date and timeRead date
and time
Home + eN/AN/AChange keyboard echoN/A
Home + fRead current focusRead current focusN/AToggle font smoothing
Home + gGet text from control (text capture)Get text from control (text
capture)Change graphics verbosityN/A
Home + iRead status informationRead status informationRead status
informationRead status information
Home + kRead current softkey assignmentsRead current softkey
assignmentsRead current softkey assignmentsMove Magnifier to softkeys
Home + lRepeat last spoken textRepeat last spoken textN/AChange screen
layout
Home + mN/AN/AChange active user modeToggle magnification
Home + oN/AN/AOpen User Dictionary for changing speech output of current
TTSN/A
Home + pN/AN/AChange punctuation verbosityToggle auto text panning
Home + qQuit applicationQuit applicationQuit applicationQuit application
Home + rMSS review cursorN/AN/AN/A
Home + sSpell last spoken textN/AToggle spell modeChange color scheme
Home + tTransfer audio to Bluetooth headsetTransfer audio to Bluetooth
headsetTransfer audio to Bluetooth headsetMove Magnifier to window title
Home + uToggle speech muteToggle speech muteToggle speech muteToggle
speech mute
Home + vChange active TTS voiceChange active TTS voiceChange active TTS
voiceN/A
Home + wRead whole screenRead whole screenN/AN/A
Home + xClose window (simulating Back key)Close window (simulating Back
key)Close window (simulating Back key)Close window (simulating Back key)
Home + yChange command layoutChange command layoutChange command
layoutChange command layout
Home + zN/AN/AChange secret modeN/A
Home + comma,Activate Left SoftkeyActivate Left SoftkeyActivate Left
SoftkeyActivate Left Softkey
Home + period.Activate Right SoftkeyActivate Right SoftkeyActivate Right
SoftkeyActivate Right Softkey

3.3 Application-Specific Commands
Apart from the different command layouts available everywhere, Mobile Speak
Smartphone provides additional commands for use in certain applications. Some of
these commands perform functions not native to the application, but which MSS
offers users to meet specific needs of the blind and visually impaired.
Internet Explorer:
Enter: Focus on a form field (e.g., edit box, combo box, list box) to enter
text or select a value
Up or Down arrow while focus is on a form field: exit the field to continue
normal navigation of the web page
Home + Left: move to previous link
Home + Right: move to next link
Home + Enter: speak relative position on web page in percent (starting with 0%
at the top of the page)
Windows Media Player:
Enter or p: play currently selected track
Enter or Space: pause or resume playback of currently selected track
Enter (hold) or s: stop playback of currently selected track
2 or a: play again the currently selected track from the start
Left (short or long press): rewind currently playing track
Right (short or long press): fast forward currently playing track
7 or b: move back to previous track in "Now Playing" list
9 or n: move to next track in "Now playing" list
Up (short press): increase player volume (size of increment depends on WMP
volume slider)
Down (short press): decrease player volume (size of decrement depends on WMP
volume slider)
0 or u: toggle player volume mute (does not affect MSS)
8 or t: speak information about current track (title, artist, and album)
Up (hold) or x: speak current time position in selected track and its total
time length
Down (hold) or g: go to specified time position (a dialog opens where you can
enter the time in fields for the hours, minutes and seconds)
5 or m: add marker at current time position in selected track (Note: you must
enter a marker name to add the marker successfully; markers are saved even
when you close the application)
4 or r: rewind to previous marker
6 or f: fast forward to next marker
3 or d: delete currently selected marker
1 or l: delete all markers
Calculator:
Arrow keys: select the four arithmetic operators (+ for addition, - for
subtraction, x for multiplication, and / for division)
Enter or = from Menu: get calculation result
Home + 9 or Home + l: repeat calculation result
Home + # or Home + w: read calculator screen
MSN or Windows Live Messenger:
Enter: switch between conversation and input area (Note: if you have reached
the top or bottom of the input/conversation field, pressing Up/Down will move
you to the other field)
Left Softkey: send chat message
Stopwatch and Smart Converter Found on Samsung Smartphones:
# key: Read the current stopwatch time at that moment, or read the conversion
result
3.4 Command Help Mode
The Command Help Mode assists you to familiarize yourself with the commands of
Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone. In this mode, you can explore all the
commands without actually performing them.
To turn on the Command Help Mode, Press the Home key four times within ten
seconds. Mobile Speak Smartphone will say "Command Help Mode On". You can now
press or press and hold any key to learn the command it performs when the Home
key is turned on. You do not need to press the Home key because it is already
enabled as a command modifier in this Help Mode. Mobile Speak Smartphone will
provide a short description of the function assigned to that keystroke. To turn
off the Command Help Mode, press Home key four times again within ten seconds.
Mobile Speak Smartphone will inform you that it is now exiting Command Help
Mode.
Note that this mode is not available if the speech component is not installed.
4 Using Your Windows Mobile Smartphone
In this section, basic information about Smartphones and their interface will be
discussed, including text input methods, navigation in dialogs, tree views and
lists, as well as other useful tips.
4.1 The Today Screen, Start Menu, Quick List and Settings Application
When the Smartphone is turned on, or when all windows are closed, focus will be
on the Today Screen (also known as the Home Screen). This shows items that give
information about upcoming appointments, active profiles, missed calls, and
unread text messages, among other things that may depend on the Smartphone and
the applications installed. These items are also shortcuts which, when
activated, will launch the associated application; e.g., Calendar for upcoming
appointments, Call History for missed calls, and Messaging for unread text
messages. You can set different layouts for the Today Screen, but MSS comes with
its own that is selected automatically after installation. The Windows Default
Home Screen Layout is also fully supported. Note that on some phones like the
Motorola Q, it may also be necessary to select default colors in the phone's
settings. Remember that when you install a 3rd-party application (e.g., Skype),
it is possible that this will also install and select its own Home screen layout
which may not be supported by MSS, thus making it hard to read the Today Screen.
In this case, enter Start > Settings > Home Screen, Start > Settings > Display >
Home Screen, or a similar Settings dialog on your phone to select the Mobile
Speak Smartphone layout again.
At the top of the Today Screen is the list of recently opened applications. Use
the Left and Right arrow keys to move through the shortcuts for these listed
programs. Press Enter to launch the application or focus on its window if it's
still running in the background.
The Start menu is opened only from the Today Screen by pressing the Left
Softkey. By default, the Start menu consists of screens that display nine items
at a time. The items are arranged like numbers 1 through 9 on the telephone
keypad, and indeed, pressing these numbers will launch the shortcut located at
its relative position. To view the next screen of nine Start menu items, press
the Left Softkey assigned to show "More". Use the back key to move back a screen
at a time. When you press the Back key on the first Start menu screen, focus
returns to the Today Screen.
However, when Mobile Speak Smartphone is installed, the device is configured
such that the Start menu is displayed in a list view consisting of three or more
pages, with the number of items in each page depending on the size of the
screen. MSS will speak a number from 1 through 9 and 0, or letters on some
QWERTY Smartphones, before each item name, which indicates the number/letter
that serves as an access key to launch that application. Note that the access
key you use will activate the corresponding item in the page currently in focus.
Therefore, if pressing 1 in the first page activates the Mobile Speak Smartphone
shortcut which opens the Control Panel, pressing 1 in the second page (to which
you move focus by pressing the Right arrow key while on the first page or the
Left arrow key while on the third) will activate the first shortcut in that
page.
In the Start menu is an item to open the Settings application where you can
change different options for your Smartphone including phone features, security,
profiles, sound schemes, etc. MSS speaks a number before each item, pressing
which will open the item even though it is not currently in focus.
Another useful application on Smartphones is one that opens a Quick List of
shortcuts to perform commonly used functions such as turning off the phone,
locking the keypad, toggling Flight Mode on/off, opening the Wireless Manager,
and changing phone profiles. This Quick List can be accessed from anywhere in
the Smartphone interface, but the key used to access it may vary from one device
to another. On most Smartphones, a short press of the Power button opens the
Quick List, while on others, you need to long press the Home key or use an
application button found on the side of the device. Please refer to your mobile
phone's manual for information about this.
4.2 Navigating Through Dialogs, Lists, Grids, and Tree Views
To move through the controls in a dialog like those that open when accessing
items in Start > Settings, Up and Down arrow keys move focus from one control to
another. In a control with items to select, Left and Right arrow keys focus on
the selection. The state of checkboxes is toggled using the Enter key or the
Space key if available. Finally, "Done" and "Cancel" or similarly labeled
buttons, which both close the dialog but where the latter discards changes made
rather than saving them, are assigned to the soft keys.
If focus lands on a tree view like what opens when some versions of the File
Manager/Explorer are launched, Mobile Speak Smartphone will say that it's a tree
view. Use Up and Down arrow keys to move through the tree view items in the open
level. If MSS says "Open" after the item name, then this is the name of the
level you are currently exploring. If MSS says "Closed", then focus is on an
item that has sub-items. Press Enter to open this item and press the Down arrow
key to enter this sub-level. To close an open level, press Enter on it again. If
MSS does not say "Open" or "Closed", then the item has no more sub-items.
However, in a file system presented in a tree view like in File
Manager/Explorer, the tree view levels correspond to folders only, not the files
in side folders. In order to view the files, you need to switch to the list view
by pressing the Left Softkey (if this is its assignment). Note that the list of
files displayed when this key is pressed will be for the folder that was in
focus when you switched to list view. For example, if the root level has 11
folders and five files, you will only see 11 items in tree view. If focus is on
the topmost item called "Smartphone [-]" and which MSS indicates as "Root,
open", pressing the left Softkey will display the 11 folders and the five files
in the root directory. IF, however, the focus was on one of the eleven folders
when you switched to the list view, then even if the folder is "Closed"
according to MSS, its contents (both folders and files) will be displayed. At
the top of the list view is an item that MSS reads as "Period". This refers to
the parent folder and pressing Enter on it will take you up one level and still
be in list view. To switch back to the tree view, press Left Softkey again.
Note that for the latest models of Windows Mobile Smartphones, the file and
folder system is now presented as a list with the Left Softkey assigned to move
"Up" a level if there is a parent folder.
In some windows, you will find grids rather than lists. Examples are the Start
menu before MSS is installed and the Symbols dialog opened by long-pressing the
# key in a text message. Use the Left and Right arrow keys to move through items
in a row, and the Up and Down arrow keys to move from one row to another.
4.3 Text Input
Text input on a Smartphone with a phone keypad is accomplished using the
multipress text input standard to regular cell phones. For example, pressing the
number 2 key once inserts the letter a, pressing it twice quickly types in the
letter b, and three quick presses enters the letter c, and the user has to pause
to let the character corresponding to the key presses get inserted.
Alternatively, the user can press the Down arrow right after the multiple
presses to insert the character without waiting for multipress timeout.
The following lists the characters inserted by each key:
Number 1 key - Frequently used punctuations such as period, question mark,
exclamation point, comma, dash, apostrophe, at sign, colon, and slash.
Long-pressing this key inserts the number 1.
Number 2 key - Inserts a, b, c, and the number 2 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Number 3 key - Inserts d, e, f, and the number 3 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Number 4 key - Inserts g, h, i, and the number 4 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Number 5 key - Inserts j, k, l, and the number 5 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Number 6 key - Inserts m, n, o, and the number 6 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Number 7 key - Inserts p, q, r, s, and the number 7 which can also be entered
by long-pressing the key.
Number 8 key - Inserts t, u, v, and the number 8 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Number 9 key - Inserts w, x, y, z, and the number 9 which can also be entered
by long-pressing the key.
Number 0 key - Inserts the plus sign and 0 which can also be entered by
long-pressing the key.
Star * key - Changes the input type (e.g., autocap spell, cap spell, numeric,
autocap T9, and Cap T9). MSS will announce the input type.
Hash # key - Inserts a Space. When pressed and held for a second, this opens
the Symbols dialog which consists of up to four screens. Use the navigation
key to move around the list and press Enter to insert a symbol. Use the Left
and Right Softkeys to move from one screen to another.
Enter key - By pressing the center of the navigation key, a new line is
started in a multiline edit control like the message body.
Back key - Deletes the character to the left of the cursor. Long-pressing this
key will delete characters continuously until the edit control is cleared.
T9 predictive text input is also supported. This input method is activated by
default on most QWERTY Smartphones, but it can be turned off either through a
list displayed by pressing the * key or in Start > Settings. On Smartphones with
standard phone keypads, T9 is selected by pressing the * key until MSS says "T9
spell" (for lowercase mode), "T9 auto cap" (for automatic capitalization of the
first letter of sentences), or "T9 cap" (for uppercase mode). With T9 input, the
keys responsible for inserting letters just need to be pressed once for each
character and possible matches will be searched and displayed from the T9
dictionary. For example, if the user presses 4663, the first suggested word is
"good". If the Down arrow key is pressed, this enters a suggestion list which
will show other matching words including "home", "gone", "hood", etc. Use the Up
and Down arrow keys to move through this list and then press Enter to select and
insert a word. If the first suggested word is correct, however, inserting a
space will select that word automatically. Moreover, you may use an external
Bluetooth keyboard for input. A popular external keyboard used is the Think
Outside Bluetooth keyboard. You may obtain the appropriate drivers for your
device from their downloads page.
4.4 Locking and Unlocking the Numeric Keypad or QWERTY Keyboard
The key/s pressed to lock the numeric keypad or QWERTY keyboard on a Windows
Mobile Smartphone varies from one device to another. On some, it can be done by
long-pressing the Hang-up key. Others, where press and hold of the Hang-up key
will power the device on/off, provides a different key combination (e.g., Home +
Space on Motorola Smartphones). The option to lock the keypad/keyboard is also
available in the Quick List opened either by a short press of the Power button
or long press of the Home key, or some other key press described in the user's
manual for your device. Note that once the keypad/keyboard is locked, the Left
Softkey will be assigned to "Unlock".
On the other hand, unlocking the numeric keypad or QWERTY keyboard is, more
often than not, done by pressing Left Softkey + *. However, there are a couple
of things you need to keep in mind in order to unlock the keypad/keyboard
without encountering any difficulties.
First, remember that if you do not touch the phone for a few minutes or longer,
it will enter into standby mode to conserve battery power. When you finally
press a key, this will not perform its default function but will instead take
the device out of standby. Consequently, if you press Left Softkey + * right
away, the Left Softkey will only "wake up" the device rather than activate its
assigned function to "Unlock". It is always advisable, therefore, to press any
key first (e.g., Hang-up key) before pressing Left Softkey + *.
Secondly, remember that you need to press Left Softkey + * with the shortest
possible pause between the press of these two keys. If the keypad/keyboard is
locked, and a key is pressed to wake up the phone, you are in a screen where
LeftSoft is assigned to "Unlock". Let's call this Screen A. When you press
LeftSoft in Screen A but do not press * right away, MSS will read the new
contents of the screen, "Unlock window, press the '*' key to unlock the phone"
and the left softkey in this window will be assigned to "Cancel". Let's call
this Screen B. However, pressing * in Screen B doesn't do anything. You need to
press LeftSoft in Screen B to cancel that window first, and return to Screen A,
then you have to press LeftSoft again, quickly followed by * key to unlock the
keypad/keyboard successfully. This usually confuses new users who think that the
Unlock key sequence is not working. This is what typically happens:
The user may not have pressed the * key fast enough after the Left Softkey so
that the device thinks he requires instructions on how to unlock and thus
displays Screen B where the user finally presses * but where nothing will happen
since he needs to cancel this screen first and return to Screen A. Or, hitting
the Left Softkey may not have activated the "Unlock" function but merely took
the device out of standby when it was pressed so only * was recognized to have
been pressed in Screen A, thus triggering the device to display the instructions
on unlocking in Screen B. Then, believing that the Unlock key sequence did not
work, user will execute Left Softkey + * again, but since he is in Screen B,
pressing Left Softkey will only "Cancel" this screen and return focus to Screen
A, where pressing * will again cause the device to display instructions in
Screen B, and user ends up in a vicious cycle of pressing Left softkey + * in
the wrong screen at the wrong time.
Note that this problem has nothing to do with MSS and is how the Windows Mobile
Smartphone interface is designed. It is important, therefore, that if the user
hears MSS say, "Unlock window, press the '*' key to unlock the phone", he should
first press the Left Softkey to dismiss this screen, and then quickly press
LeftSoftkey + * to successfully unlock the keypad/keyboard.
4.5 Useful Tips About Using a Windows Mobile Smartphone
To close a window and return to the Today Screen, press the Hang-up key. This
is useful if you want to quickly close a window like a text message you are
composing that you do not yet wish to send. Instead of opening the application
menu with the Right Softkey and selecting "Save to Drafts" or "Cancel
Message", pressing the Hang-up key will close the window and move focus to the
Today Screen, and the message will be opened where you left off the next time
the Messaging application is launched.

When a window is closed on a Windows Mobile Smartphone using the Back or
Hang-up key, it has only been minimized and the associated program continues
to run in the background. The exception is when the window closed was
displaying a dialog that you exited using a software button control or a
softkey assigned to OK/Done or Cancel/Back. The purpose of keeping
applications running on the background is to allow the device to open their
respective windows faster the next time you try to launch an application using
its shortcut. The running programs will remain loaded in the device memory
until you restart or soft reset the phone, and when the system automatically
unloads some idle application in the background to run new ones that you have
launched. If you want to unload the current program from memory as you close
its window, however, remember that you can use the Quit Application command
assigned to Home + back, or the "Stop" or "Stop all" options in the MSS Switch
to App dialog opened with Home + 2.

Pressing the Dial key when there is no number dialed will open a list of
numbers on previous incoming and outgoing calls. MSS speaks the icons in this
list that indicate if the call associated with the displayed number was
"missed", "incoming", or "outgoing".

If the Dial key is pressed and held for a second during a call, it toggles the
Speaker Phone on/off. If this does not work on your Smartphone, please refer
to its user's manual for instructions on turning on the speaker phone.

If the Quick List item says "Flight Mode", this means that Flight Mode is
turned off and pressing Enter on this shortcut will activate it. On the other
hand, if it says "Flight Mode off", then the mode is activated and hitting
Enter on this item will turn it off. On some Smartphones, the Flight Mode
option is available in the Com Manager or Wireless Manager application which
has a shortcut in the Quick List. The icon labeled "All" or "All radios" is
used to toggle this mode. Note that when Flight Mode is turned on, all the
device's radio transmitters and receivers (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and phone) will
be turned off. This mode is activate when the user is going to fly on an
airplane so as to prevent the radio signals from interfering with the plane's
communication and navigation systems.

If you cannot get a network signal in a certain area or if you removed the SIM
card, MSS may still report that signal strength is at 100%. This is because
some phones can still be used for making calls to emergency numbers even when
there is no available network coverage.

If you set the profile to "Automatic", the phone automatically switches
between the "Normal" profile which alerts the user about all calls and
messages received, and the Meeting profile which silences the incoming call
and message alert tones when a scheduled appointment in your Calendar has the
status set to "Busy".

In Start > Settings > Accessibility, there is an option for the "In-call Alert
Volume". Increasing its value will make ring tones on incoming calls sound
louder.

Depending on the Smartphone, sound files need to be saved in the root
directory of the Storage Card, in the Windows directory, in \Application
Data\Sounds, or \Windows\Rings so that they appear in the list of ringtones
you can choose from in Start > Settings > Sounds, or when assigning ringtones
to individual contacts.

Depending on the WM6 Smartphone, PowerPoint Mobile may open a PPT presentation
displaying its contents in landscape screen orientation. IN this case, open
the menu with the Right Softkey, select Options, and set the screen
orientation to "Portrait" so that MSS can read the slides better. Moreover, if
the PowerPoint file has animations, text boxes and place holders, select
Options from the menu, check the box to override playback options, and check
the boxes for showing the slides without animations and media. Press the Left
Softkey to confirm your changes.

If you press the Right Softkey while focus is on a Start menu shortcut, you
will find options for assigning a speed dial or voice tag to that shortcut.
Similar options can be found in the menu of the Contacts application. A speed
dial key is used by pressing the speed dial number assignment in the Today
Screen but for the last digit (or the only digit for speed dial keys 1 through
9), the key is pressed and held for half a second. Voice tags are used through
the Voice Dial application built into Windows Mobile Smartphones, where you
speak the recorded tag to activate the item assigned to it. Speed dial keys
and voice tags can be assigned to contacts and applications. Thus, you can
assign a speed dial key to "the "MSS On" and "MSS Off" shortcuts in the Start
menu, for instance, and use these to load and unload MSS from memory when
necessary. Note also that such shortcuts are available in the MSS Control
Panel, and that if you press the Down arrow key while the MSS splash screen
sound is playing, MSS start-up will be aborted as indicated by a descending
tone interrupting the splash screen sound.

In Start > Accessories (most Smartphones), Start > System Tools (Motorola
phones), and Start > Settings > Security (Samsung and Pantech phones) (is a
shortcut labeled "Clear Storage", "Hard reset", "Master Clear", "Master Reset"
or something similar. Activating this and entering the string of numbers that
the text on the screen instructs you to key in, then pressing the Left Softkey
will format the device as though a hard reset was performed. However, if the
device locked up and you cannot get to the "Clear Storage" shortcut, each
device has steps for hard resetting that involve pressing the Power button
with other keys held down until a message asking if you wish to hard reset the
device is displayed on the screen. When the device is formatted, all data not
stored on external storage cards will be erased and Smartphone settings will
be set to their defaults. Note that even if applications were installed to the
storage card, the Windows registry is in the device memory and so you will
still need to reinstall all programs following a hard reset.
For more information on using Windows Mobile Smartphones, refer to Microsoft's
online Smartphone help and how-to pages.
5 Other Mobile Speak Smartphone Features
Mobile Speak Smartphone is a feature-rich screen reading application that does
more than just render screen contents in speech. Unlike other similar solutions,
MSS includes different functions and applications that make your mobile phone
more than a communications device, and it offers more flexibility for a better
user experience. The following sections describe just some of these unique
product features.
5.1 Control Panel
The Control Panel contains a number of options that allow each user to customize
the behavior of Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone to suit individual
preferences. Some of the options that can be changed include text processing and
verbosity settings, speech output during a call or while dialing, the option to
run Mobile Speak Pocket automatically at system startup, and many more. This is
also where the Activation Manager for activating products, Device Manager for
connecting to Braille devices, and the Magnification configuration screen can be
found.
To access the Control Panel, press Home + 1 in the Default and Settings layouts.
The same command, when performed with the Magnification layout selected, will
directly open the Magnification dialog in the Control Panel. You can also press
Windows + c on an external QWERTY keyboard. Alternatively, the Control Panel can
be accessed using the "Mobile Speak Smartphone" shortcut in the Today Screen and
the start menu.
The MSP Control Panel is a standard application with a multipage list view. Each
item in the list opens another dialog box with different options. Moreover, each
item has an assigned number hotkey which when pressed anywhere in the current
page, will open that item. The last item on each page except the last one is
called "More" with 0 as the hotkey, and this will take you to the first item of
the next page. Alternatively, you can use the Left or Right arrow key to move to
the previous or next page. For example, to access the General options dialog,
you can either arrow down to "General" and press Enter or the Left Softkey, or
just press 3 while in the first page where this item is available.
The first item on the first page of the Control Panel's main screen is called
"Modes". Mobile Speak Smartphone comes with three sets of preconfigured options,
and these are called user modes. Each mode contains the same options but they
differ in setting configuration. The Beginner user mode which is selected by
default has settings that make Mobile Speak Smartphone most verbose. MSS becomes
less verbose with the Intermediate and Advanced user modes. You can change the
settings for each mode to customize it to your needs in different situations.
For example, the Beginner mode can be used when editing text where keyboard echo
may be set to "Characters and Words", punctuation verbosity may be set to "All",
and spell mode may be set to "Phonetic". On the other hand, Intermediate mode
may be the one you use most of the time, while Advanced mode where MSS is least
verbose may be used during leisure reading.
Remember that in order to save changes to settings, you must select the softkey
(usually the left) assigned to "OK". To discard your changes or to close the
Control Panel or exit one of its folders (e.g., Modes), press the Right Softkey.
5.2 Braille Reader Application
Code Factory recognizes the power of Windows Mobile devices and how they can be
used not only for communications but also for performing other tasks such as
notetaking and reading books. For Windows Mobile 6 Smartphones, MSS fully
supports all Office Mobile applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). For
Windows Mobile 5 Smartphones where Office Mobile is not yet included, a
3rd-party application that can be used for creating and reading text documents
is likewise supported.
Moreover, a unique feature of MSS, never seen in other screen readers for
desktop computers or for mobile devices, is a Braille Reader application that
supports Braille formatted (BRF) files that can be downloaded from online
sources such as Bookshare.org, the National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped, the CNIB Digital Library, and the International Braille
Research Center. Further, this application already includes a Bookshare unpack
utility, so after saving the BKS files on your device, you can simply navigate
to a Bookshare file using File Explorer / File Manager, press Enter on it, and
type in your Bookshare password, if prompted, to start unpacking. You will also
be asked if you wish to keep a copy of the BKS file after it has been unpacked.
The BRF file will automatically be opened after it is unpacked.
Note that you can use this application even if you do not have a Braille device.
MSS will inform you that no connection to a Braille device was connected, and
then it will ask you if you wish to proceed. Press the Left Softkey for "yes".
If you open a BRF file, or the application opens one after being unpacked from a
Bookshare file, MSS will ask you if you wish to preserve soft line breaks in the
document. If you want to read this file continuously from some point or cursor
position, or if you plan to navigate by paragraphs, then answering "no" to this
prompt with the Right Softkey will make speech output smoother as it will not
pause at line endings, except where carriage returns are inserted to begin new
paragraphs. Similarly, if you are using a Braille device with short Braille
displays, removing the line breaks will also improve the flow of Braille reading
since text is shown on the entire Braille display, rather than starting a new
Braille line at soft line breaks. However, if you want to know where lines begin
and end in the file, press the Left Softkey at that prompt.
Remember that text navigation commands to read by character (left / Right arrow
key), line (Up / Down arrow key), and the commands available in the Advanced
Reading layout to move by word, sentence and paragraph, as well as continuously
from the top of the file or cursor position, can all be used in the Braille
Reader application. Observe also that MSS will say the correct name of each
Braille character. Note that on some Smartphones (e.g., Motorola Q 9M), you may
need to enable the numeric functions of the QWERTY keyboard first in order to
perform Advanced Reading commands.
If you wish to view a list of BRF and BKS files saved on your device or storage
card, press the Left Softkey for "Open" when in the Braille Reader application
or a BRF file itself. MSS will search for supported files and a series of double
beeps is played to indicate the progress of the search. When the list of files
is shown, navigate to the one you wish to access and press Enter. Note that when
you close a BRF file, MSS will remember your place in it so that you can
continue reading where you left off when this file is reopened later.
To exit a file or the Braille Reader application, press the Right Softkey for
"Exit".
5.3 TTS-Specific User Dictionary
You can change the way the TTS voice you are using pronounces words through the
User Dictionary of Mobile Speak Smartphone. Switch to the Settings layout using
Home + 5, and then press Home + 4 to open the user dictionary for the currently
active voice. Note that different TTS engines have different pronunciations for
the same word.
In the user dictionary, you have an edit field for entering the "actual word"
and a "read as" field for the pronunciation text string. Note that you can only
enter single words, and numbers and punctuations are ignored. To change the
placement of stress on syllables, use uppercase letters in the pronunciation
string to start a new syllable. For example, to correct the way the word
"knowledgebase" is pronounced, enter knowledgebase as the actual word, and
knowledgeBase in the "Read as" edit field. You can also change the way
individual letters are pronounced through the user dictionary. IF, for instance,
you have difficulty hearing the letter 'e' spoken at higher speech rate levels,
you can enter e as the actual word and eeee as the pronunciation string.
When you are ready to add the pronunciation entry, press the Left Softkey and
select "Add". The new entry will be added to the list presented in the main
screen of the user dictionary. Other options available in the menu opened with
the Left Softkey can be used to "delete" entries, "modify" existing entries, and
"clear edit fields" so that you do not need to delete the text entered one
character at a time using the Back key.
To exit the user dictionary and save your entries, select "OK" in the Options
menu. To exit the user dictionary without saving your changes, press the Right
Softkey.
5.4 Speech Through the Bluetooth Headset and During a Call
If you have a Bluetooth headset, you can route MSS speech and system audio to it
by following these steps:
Pair the Bluetooth headset with your Smartphone by going to Start > Settings >
Connections > Bluetooth, selecting "Devices" in the Menu, and then pressing
Enter on "New" in the Menu of the next window that opens. Follow the
instructions in the proceeding windows. Make sure that the headset is set to
be used as a Bluetooth handsfree in the list of services available for that
Bluetooth device.
When the headset has been paired successfully, press Home + Long0 or Home + t
to route/transfer audio to the Bluetooth headset. Note that on some
Smartphones, you would need to select the headset profile first before this
will work, and still on other Smartphones, the routing of audio to the
Bluetooth headset does not work at all due to a limitation of the current
firmware on the device.
By default, speech and system audio will be routed back to the device speaker
after a call is terminated or when you use Microsoft Voice Command. You will
thus need to press Home + long0 or Home + t again. If you want MSP to route
audio back to the BT headset automatically in such cases, go to the MSP
Control Panel by pressing Home + 1 or Home + c, and select "Audio Settings",.
Check the first checkbox in this dialog that enables the option of auto
routing to Bluetooth. Activate the Left Softkey for "Done".
To stop the routing of audio to Bluetooth, simply turn off the BT headset or
restart the phone.
Also by default, MSS speech feedback is not available during a call. This is
because Windows Mobile sets system volume to 0 while you're in a call (which
does not affect the audio coming from the other line, of course). To have MSS
speech output, go to the Control Panel and select the "Phone" option". The first
control lets you set the volume of system audio to a non-0 value (note that this
does not work on some devices due to this feature being disabled in that phone's
firmware). Another useful option in this dialog is a checkbox, unchecked by
default, that automatically mutes speech when an incoming or outgoing call is
established. If the "Silent on calls" feature is checked, you can manually
unmute speech during a call with the Home + 0 or Home + u command if you need to
access certain menus or applications with speech output. You can mute speech
again with the same command when you're done. Whether or not speech was muted
when the call is terminated, speech output will automatically be re-enabled.
5.5 Mobile Speak Smartphone and 3rd-Party Applications
Apart from working well with built-in Windows Mobile Smartphone applications,
Mobile Speak Smartphone also supports 3rd-party software with different degrees
of accessibility. There are applications that are fully compatible with MSS,
while others require the use of the MSS cursor in some windows. The following is
just a short list of 3rd-party applications known to be accessible with MSS.
There are others not mentioned that work with MSS but this list is included in
this manual to get you started with some useful programs. Please keep in mind
that installing 3rd-party applications may install and automatically select a
specially designed Home screen layout that will cause MSS to have problems
reading the Today Screen. In this case, please select the "MObile Speak
Smartphone" layout in Start > Settings > Display > Home Screen or a similar
Settings dialog on your device.
Microsoft Voice Command: Lets you perform functions by speaking commands that
use a predefined format. This application also provides some speech output.
MSS mutes itself temporarily when this program is expecting a voice command
from you.

AvantGo Standalone Client: Lets you view and download web pages of different
content from AvantGo channels in order to read them while on the move and even
without an internet connection.

Skype for Smartphone: An internet telephony application that allows you to
make calls to other Skype users or even landline and mobile phone numbers
anywhere in the world, using either your cellular internet service or a
connection to a Wi-Fi network. This program can also be used for instant
messaging.

Audible Player and Audible Air: With an Audible account, you can purchase or
subscribe to and download books, magazines, newspapers and other publications
in audio (Audible) format, as well as internet radio shows to your mobile
device. The Control Panel window of this application may require the use of
the MSS review cursor (Home + 3 or Home +r in Default layout.

SlovoEd Multilingual Dictionaries: Software that provides definitions, acronym
expansions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms and the like, as well as two-way
translations between a selected pair of languages. Use the Text Capture
command (Home + 8 or Home + g in Default and Advanced Reading layouts) to read
the resulting definition or translation.

PhatNotes for Smartphone: Windows Mobile Smartphones generally do not come
with a built-in Notes application. PhatNotes is an award-winning Notes
organizer that lets you create text notes with subject, creation and
modification dates, and category. It has sort and filter options, a search
function, and password protection feature. It allows directly sending email
from the notes editor and synchronization with the PC.

Vieka WordPad: WM5 Smartphones do not have a text editor application. This
freeware program provides a text editor for creating and opening .txt files
with the most commonly used editing functions (e.g., copy, cut, paste, Undo,
find/Replace), file operations (e.g., new/rename/delete folder), font changing
and word wrap among others.

Sprite Backup: A program that lets you create a backup of your data and
application settings to the storage card which you can then restore after a
hard reset.

Resco Explorer for Smartphone: A powerful file management utility featuring
file/folder manipulation, FTP explorer, RAR archive decompression, zip
compression, sending files via Bluetooth or infrared, quick search function,
storage card formatting, and registry editor.

VITO AudioNotes: An audio recorder that allows you to save recordings in mp3
and wav audio formats. It features VAS and microphone AGC. It also supports
phone call recording.

VITO CopyPaste Clipboard for Smartphone: Free utility that lets you copy or
cut the info from an edit box and paste it to another one. You can also select
the necessary part of the edit box contents for copying or cutting to another
editable field.
6 Contacting Code Factory
Thank you for checking out Mobile Speak and Mobile Magnifier for Windows Mobile
Smartphones. We hope it has given you a uniquely pleasant experience of
exploring the world of Windows Mobile devices, and allowed you to harness the
full potential of multifunctional, mainstream Smartphones.
If you wish to send us your feedback and suggestions, you can do so using the
"My Feedback" option in the Control Panel. Just like the Activation Manager,
this will send us the data using an ActiveSync partnership between your
Smartphone and a computer with internet connection, your phone's internet
service or connection to a Wi-Fi hotspot, or via SMS. "My Feedback" also logs
information about the internal operation of Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone,
so if you are experiencing a problem and wish to send us a log of any errors
that may be occurring, this is also a direct way of submitting the report to us
for logging in our server. Select what you wish to do in "My Feedback" from the
options menu opened by the Left Softkey. Each screen that opens after selecting
an option provides instructions on what you need to do.
If you require technical support, or want to give us your suggestions and
feedback through more conventional means of communication, feel free to contact
us at:
Tel.: +34-93-7337066
E-mail: support@codefactory.es
Online form: http://www.codefactory.es/en/request.asp?id=90
For questions relating to sales and licensing, please contact your local
distributor or write to sales@codefactory.es.
For general queries, please email us at info@codefactory.es.
7 About Code Factory, S.L.
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Terrassa/Barcelona, Spain, Code Factory is
the global leader committed to the development of products designed to Eliminate
barriers to the accessibility of mobile technology for the blind and visually
impaired. Today, Code Factory is the leading provider of screen readers, screen
magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the widest range of mainstream mobile
devices including Symbian-based and Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones as well
as Pocket PC phones and PDAs. Its product line is the only one to support phones
working on the GSM, CDMA and WCDMA networks. Code Factory's success lies in
giving excellent customer support and in responding immediately to the needs of
its end users. Among our customers are well-known companies and organizations
like ONCE, and carriers such as TMN, Vodafone, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and AT&T.
Our partners enable us to provide excellent text-to-speech, in many languages,
for Mobile Speak products and to incorporate support for over twenty wireless
Braille devices into our software.
Code Factory®, Mobile Speak Smartphone® (MSS), and Mobile Magnifier Smartphone®
(MMS) names and logos are registered trademarks of Code Factory, S.L.

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