Specifications

Keyboard Layouts

• QWERTY: Typewriter layout is standard; change anytime to...
• ABCDE: Optional; easier for some populations such as the elderly and autistic (consider for use with Facilitated Communication)

Display Text

• Choose between UPPER-case only or UPPER/lower-case to the displays
• Many additional symbols and accented characters (> @ ñ ç é , etc.)

Special Keys

• Two keys are changeable to international characters
• An external switch may be used for special operations, for example: turn the unit on, recall and speak a memory

Memory

• Lots of backed-up memory for use in:
  * 36 memos of up to 250 characters each, one memo for each of the letter and number keys
  * Abbreviations/Expansions
  * Speech Exceptions
  * Speedwriting - add your own SPDWRTG ABBREVS (speedwriting abbreviations)
• Facility to browse through the memories to see what is stored
• Sequences: use 2 keys to play complicated key sequences, such as: "Print eight memories, with gaps between, the first one bold and the last one italic"

Replay Speed

• Adjustable speed of replay of messages and memories

Calculator

• 8-function calculator built in

Call Signal

• Two call signal

Text-to-Speech Output

• Standard: DECtalk*, high quality American-English with eight adult voices (4-male and 4-female) and one child's voice
• Optional:
  * External Synthesizers may be used with or without an internal speech capability

Text Prompting

• Set up word prompting after selection of 1, 2, or 3 characters (or none). Stored vocabulary can be scrolled for visual selection.
• Examples of prompting after typing one character:
  * If T is selected, the display will show The, if H is then selected, the display will change to THat, etc.
  * Or, if T is selected, the display will show The. Then scroll to choose from the stored vocabulary list.