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Narrator:  For the purpose of this tutorial we’re going to leave our unit plugged in.  It normally takes two hours to charge and the battery charge lasts approximately twenty hours depending on how many applications or other programs you might have running.  When you plug in the BrailleNote the first thing it will say is AC adaptor on whether the unit is turned on or off it will always announce whether the AC adaptor is plugged in.  
If the battery has not been charged for quite some time and this is the first time it’s been plugged in when you turn it on you’ll hear a series of chimes as it boots up initially and then it usually requires you to set the date and time, 
BrailleNote: time format press enter for twelve hours”
Narrator: In this case we’ll leave it at twelve hour.  Pressing enter which is the button on the far right hand side will get you the next prompting question.  
BrailleNote: Time zone, press enter for New Zealand standard time GST plus 12:00 Ofland, Willington.  
Narrator: If you live in New Zealand this would be a good opportunity to push enter, however, in Alberta we’re going to press M for mountain standard time, 
BrailleNote: mountain standard time GST - 7:00 mountain time US Canada.  
Narrator: Sounds excellent, let’s continue, press enter, 
BrailleNote: daylight savings time currently is
Narrator:  at this point we leave it as it was, 
BrailleNote: time press enter for 5:10 a.m.  
Narrator: To set the time simply enter the numbers you want.  So for example it is 12:05 currently you enter 1 2 0 5.  Now to indicate a.m. or p.m. as we’re on 1200 hour hit the space and then hit either A for a.m. or P for p.m. enter.  Press enter for Monday, January 1, 2007.  
Alright to adjust the date as well begin with the number sign then enter your month number to be 0 and in this case we will pick 2 followed by another number sign, no space, the day of the month that it is.  So we will pretend it is the 22nd, again another number sign without a space and now to enter the year, use the last two digits of the year, 09, 
BrailleNote: week starts on which day, press enter for Sunday.  
Narrator: When it asks you the week you can either choose Sunday or Monday.  In this case we’ll just push enter as it already indicated Sunday.  
BrailleNote: Main menu
Narrator: excellent we are now at the main menu.  Before we continue with the lesson it would probably be advantageous for you to adjust the speech settings, customizing it to your own preference.  If we went through the main menu and listed off the various features you probably would either find the device talking too slowly for your preference or talking too fast or perhaps it’s not loud enough so at this point we’re going to teach you how to change the volume, the pitch and the rate.  All these are what’s called a corded command.  You’re basically pressing more than one button at the same time.  
For example if you want the unit to speak louder, dots 1 2 3 4 5 6 is what you have to remember as well as pressing the enter key which is dot 8.  For volume we’re dealing with dots 1 and 4 along with the enter key.  On this device you’ll find that when you’re entering a command sometimes when you do it with the left hand it does one part of the command.  If you want it to do the opposite you’d use the right hand.  So for example in volume you want it to be quieter dot 1 with the enter button makes it softer, 
BrailleNote: volume 29, 28, 27, 26.  
Narrator: As an opposite command using the right hand you would hit dot 4 and the enter button.  
BrailleNote: Volume 27, 28, 29, 30, volume 31, 32.  
Narrator: Volume 32 is the maximum volume on the BrailleNote.  If that’s not sufficient enough for you, you may want to consider plugging in headphones.
For the next change to customize the voice you might want to change the pitch.  If volume was dots 1 and 4 now pitch is dots 2 and 5.  Again a left hand will decrease, the right hand will do the opposite or increase so pitch meaning it would go deeper down I’ll give you the example, 
BrailleNote: pitch 4, pitch 3, pitch 2, pitch 1,
Narrator:  the opposite, dot 5, 
BrailleNote: pitch 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, pitch 16.  
Narrator: For both pitch and for speed or rate, the maximum number is 16.  At this point we’re going to turn the pitch back down to something that’s more customized for my hearing.  To adjust the rate it’s now dots 3 and 6.  Again with the left hand would do decrease, the opposite reaction or increase would be with the right hand.  To slow the rate of speech down dot 3 with enter 
BrailleNote: rate 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 
Narrator: and again if you want it to be faster there are certain individuals who appreciate hearing synthesized speech at a much quicker rate, dot 3 with enter, 
BrailleNote: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.  
Narrator: For the purpose of this activity we’ll slow the rate back down to 8, excellent. Although we have changed the voice settings in terms of operating the device we last left off at main menu after changing the time.  That’s still where we are.  Another important command to know at this point, if you didn’t understand what the device read to you and if you are having difficulty reading the Braille display the repeat command is dots 1, 2, 3, with dot 5 or in Braille that would be the letter R for repeat plus the spacebar and now we’re at the main menu.
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