Talkative - Table of Contents Talkative - Table of Contents .................................................................... 1 1. Introduction to Talkative ...................................................................... 5 1.1 What is Talkative? ........................................................................ 5 1.2 Age appropriate content ................................................................ 6 2. Installing Talkative .............................................................................. 7 2.1 Installing Talkative from a CD ............................................................. 7 3 User Settings ...................................................................................... 8 3.1 Duplicate a user and opening user settings ............................................. 8 3.2 Input Method ................................................................................. 9 3.3 Visibility ...................................................................................... 9 3.4 Speech settings ............................................................................ 10 3.5 Workspace Settings ....................................................................... 11 3.5.1 Web browser ...................................................................... 11 3.5.2 Email ............................................................................... 11 3.5.3 Mobile phone ..................................................................... 11 4. Using Talkative ................................................................................ 12 4.1 Using Talkative to speak ................................................................. 12 4.1.1 Finding words ..................................................................... 12 4.1.2 Topic grids ........................................................................ 13 4.1.3 Categorization of words in topic grids ........................................ 15 4.1.4 'Pinning' self-closing grids ....................................................... 20 4.1.5 Conjugating verbs ................................................................ 20 4.1.6 Speak, Clear and Delete ........................................................ 21 4.2 Editing grid content....................................................................... 23 1 4.2.1 Self-editing grids ................................................................. 23 4.2.2 Word lists and vocab cells ...................................................... 25 5 Special Functions ............................................................................... 34 5.1 Documents ................................................................................. 34 5.1.1 Saving your work as a document .............................................. 34 5.1.2 Open and manage your documents ........................................... 35 5.1.3 Closing a document .............................................................. 36 5.1.4 Sending your document by SMS or email ..................................... 36 5.1.5 Printing your document ......................................................... 36 5.2 Calculator .................................................................................. 37 5.3 Internet ..................................................................................... 38 5.3.1 Browsing the Internet ........................................................... 38 5.3.2 Favourite webpages ............................................................. 39 5.4 SMS .......................................................................................... 40 5.4.1 How to manage your SMS and email contacts ............................... 40 5.4.2 How to send an SMS ............................................................. 41 5.4.3 How to read and manage your SMS messages ............................... 42 5.5 Email ........................................................................................ 43 5.5.1 How to send an email ........................................................... 43 5.5.2 How to read and manage your emails ........................................ 44 5.6 Music ........................................................................................ 45 5.6.1 How to browse and play music from your music library ................... 45 5.7 Skype ........................................................................................ 46 5.7.1 How to set up Talkative to use with Skype .................................. 46 5.7.2 How to send a message using Skype .......................................... 46 5.8 Control ...................................................................................... 48 2 5.8.1 Settings ............................................................................ 49 5.8.2 Television ......................................................................... 50 5.8.3 Telephone ......................................................................... 51 5.8.4 Smart House ...................................................................... 52 6 Other places to look for help ................................................................. 53 6.1 The Grid 2 Manual ......................................................................... 53 6.2 The Grid 2 Training Cards ................................................................ 53 6.3 Sensory Answers ........................................................................... 54 6.4 Sensory Technical Support ............................................................... 54 6.5 Sensory Update ............................................................................ 54 APPENDIX A: Email Settings ..................................................................... 55 A.1 Your email account ....................................................................... 55 A.2 Entering your email account details in The Grid 2 .................................. 55 A.3 Googlemail and Gmail settings ......................................................... 56 A.3.1 Configure googlemail for POP access ......................................... 56 A.3.2 Configure the email settings in The Grid 2 .................................. 56 A.3.3 Configure email settings for Gmail ........................................... 57 APPENDIX B: Text Messaging .................................................................... 58 B.1 Compatible modems and phones ....................................................... 58 B.1.2 Broadband (3G) Modems ........................................................ 58 B.1.3 Compatible phones .............................................................. 58 B.1.4 Partially compatible phones ................................................... 59 B.1.5 Incompatible phones ............................................................ 59 B.2 Connecting a USB Modem to Grid 2 .................................................... 59 B.2.1 Before you Start.................................................................. 60 B.2.2 Install the modem software. ................................................... 60 3 B.2.3 Checking you can send and receive messages with the modem .......... 61 B.2.4 Configure and Test The Grid 2 ................................................. 61 B.2.5 Troubleshooting .................................................................. 62 B.3 Connect a mobile phone to The Grid 2 with Bluetooth ............................. 63 B.3.1 Install your bluetooth adaptor ................................................. 63 B.3.2 Edit your Grid 2 user ............................................................ 63 B.3.3 'PAIR' your phone to your computer ........................................... 63 B.3.4 Setting up The Grid 2 for SMS .................................................. 64 B.3.5 Security settings on the phone ................................................ 64 APPENDIX C: Environment Control ............................................................. 65 C.1 Setting up with GEWA .................................................................... 65 C.1.2 Advanced options with GEWA .................................................. 68 C.2 Setting up TIRA and UUIRT .............................................................. 69 4 1. Introduction to Talkative 1.1 What is Talkative? Talkative is a communication system for people who rely on symbols to identify words. It has an extensive vocabulary designed for older children and adults. Common words are displayed on the Start grid, with links to more words organised by topic. Grid content is primarily determined by word lists, which can be easily added to or edited. Additional topic-appropriate content is provided at the bottom of each grid in the form of vocab cells, which offer useful phrases and sentence starters. After selecting a word, users are automatically taken back to the Start grid. If they have selected a verb, different verb forms appear at the bottom of the Start grid, so users can conjugate their sentences correctly. Talkative is unique among The Grid 2 grid sets. It has a large communication vocabulary which is not restricted to people who can spell. A user can locate a word without being able to spell it or know what it begins with, by searching for the symbol in the appropriate topic grid. As far as possible words have been made identifiable by a unique symbol within a grid. Talkative uses the Widgit Symbol Library images, as it requires a large symbol collection