Franklin IC-157 User manual

Electronic Publishers
DIGITAL BOOK
IC-157
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For use with the Franklin
Digital Book System®
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User’s Manual
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Speech
Card

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License Agreement
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BOOK means the software product and documentation found in
this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic
Publishers, Inc.
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Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and
nonexclusive license to use the DIGITAL BOOK on a single
FRANKLIN Digital Book System at a time. You may not make any
copies of the DIGITAL BOOK or of the data stored therein,
whether in electronic or print format. Such copying would be in
violation of applicable copyright laws. Further, you may not
modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create
derivative works of, or in any way reverse engineer the DIGITAL
BOOK. You may not export or reexport, directly or indirectly, the
DIGITAL BOOK without compliance with appropriate governmental
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and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps
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effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately
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provision of this license.

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Contents
License Agreement ...........................1
Contents............................................2
Introduction .......................................3
Key Guide .........................................4
Installing the Digital Book..................5
Viewing a Demonstration ..................6
Pronouncing Words...........................7
Pronouncing Phrases & Sentences ..9
Using Words from Other Books ........10
Using the Digital Book System..........11
Limited Warranty ...............................13
Product Specifications.......................14
Index .................................................15
✓ About the Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Manual may
vary slightly from what you see on screen. These
variations do not mean that this digital book or your
Digital Book System is malfunctioning.

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Introduction
The DBS Speech Card’s purpose is to pronounce En-
glish words. It is designed for people who are speaking
English for the first time, people who speak English as
a second language, and people who want to hear cor-
rect pronunciation of English words and phrases.
The three main functions you will perform with the
Speech Card are the following...
• pronunciation of more than 48,000 different words
and word forms;
• pronunciation of word phrases and whole sen-
tences;
• pronunciation of words imported from other digital
books.
This Speech Card can be used with the Oxford
Student’s Bilingual Dictionary series; as well as most
other Franklin digital books.
✓Using the Audio System
Make sure that your Digital Book System has audio
capabilities, like the DBS-2 and the DBS-2D, that
either have speakers or have an earphone jack. If
earphones are necessary, make sure that you plug
them into the jack before using this digital book.

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Key Guide
* Hold the gold key while pressing the other key.
Function Keys
SAY
Pronounce the typed word, phrase, or
sentence. (Not all Digital Book Systems
have this key.)
ENTER
Pronounce the typed word, phrase, or
sentence.
SPEC
Pronounce the typed word, phrase, or
sentence
BACK
Back up (e.g., erase a typed letter).
CARD
Exit the selected digital book.
CLEAR
Clear a word, phrase, or sentence.
GAMES
No effect.
HELP
Display an appropriate help message.
LIST
No effect.
MENU
No effect.
MORE
No effect
ON/OFF
Turn the Digital Book System on or off.
SHIFT
Type capitals or punctuation.
SPACE
Type a space.
+
CARD
* Exit the selected digital book, taking the
selected text.

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1. Turn off the Digital Book System.
2. Install the digital book into a slot on the back.
3. Press
ON/OFF
.
4. If needed, turn the wheel on the side of the Digi-
tal Book System to adjust the screen contrast.
If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.
5. Press
CARD
.
6. Press or to highlight the DBS Speech
Card icon, if needed.
7. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Installing the Digital Book
You must install the digital book in your Digital Book
System before you can use it.
WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Digi-
tal Book System is on. If you do, information that you
entered in any other installed digital book may be
erased.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
Should you forget to turn off the Digital Book Sys-
tem while using this digital book, the system will au-
tomatically shut off after a few minutes.Assuming
that the demo is turned off, the screen that you last
used will appear turn the system on again.

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Viewing a Demonstration
When you start the DBS Speech Card, you will be
shown a brief demonstration on how to use the prod-
uct. First time users should view the whole demonstra-
tion to see how the Speech Card works.
1. Press
ON/OFF
to turn on.
2. Select the Franklin Speech Card icon, if necessary.
3. If you wish to stop demo, press
CLEAR
.
4. Type
DEMO and press
ENTER
to disable the demo.
Disabling the Demo will allow you to skip the demo
when starting the Speech Card.
5. Type DEMO and press
ENTER
to enable the
demo.
✓Adjusting the Controls
• Volume
The volume dial is found on the side of the product.
Turning the dial adjusts the volume..
• Screen Contrast
The contrast change dial is also found on the side
of the product. Turn the dial clockwise or counter-
clockwise to adjust the contrast to your liking.

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Pronouncing Words
The most basic use of the DBS Speech Card is to type
a word to hear its pronunciation.
1. Type the word you wish to hear pronounced.
The Franklin Speech Card does not spell-check
your entries. If you misspell a word you will see a
Pronunciation not available error message. This
message will also appear if the word that you typed
is not in the Speech Card’s word list.
2. Press
SAY
,
ENTER
, or
SPEC
to hear the word
pronounced.
3. To hear the word repeated, press
SAY
,
ENTER
, or
SPEC
.
4. To edit the word, press
BACK
to erase letters
and then type the letters you wish.
5. Press
CLEAR
to clear the entry.
✓Help is at Hand
You can view a help message any time by pressing
HELP
. The messages will give you instructions on
how to use this digital book. Press
SPACE
to go to
the next page of help. To exit the help text press
BACK
.

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Pronouncing Words
✓ Using Punctuation and Capitalization
• Apostrophes
The Speech Card does recognize conjunctions:
(e.g. can’t, wouldn’t, it’s).The apostrophe is typed
by holding
SHIFT
and pressing
. ’
. However, the
Speech Card does not pronounce possessives us-
ing an apostrophe, like woman’s, players’, their’s.
•Periods
There are some abbreviations that the Speech
Card recognizes. Mostly these are titles such as
Mr., Mrs., and Ms..
• Hyphens
The Speech Card recognizes words that require
the use of a hyphen in the word itself: (e.g. father-
in-law, first-rate, cross-reference). The hyphen is
typed by holding
SHIFT
and pressing
, -
. Be
careful with this function; if the word does not re-
quire a hyphen then the word will not be recog-
nized.
• Capitals
You can type capitals with this digital book by
holding the
SHIFT
key and pressing the letter
you wish to have capitalized. The Speech Card
will only recognize a word if the first letter is
capitalized.

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Pronouncing Phrases & Sentences
Another function of the Speech Card is to pronounce
sentences. It can say up to eight words having no
more than thirty characters, including spaces.
1. Type the sentence that you wish to hear pro-
nounced without sentence punctuation.
2. Press
SAY
,
ENTER
, or
SPEC
to hear the
sentence pronounced.
3. To hear the sentence repeated, press
SAY
,
ENTER
, or
SPEC
.
4. To edit the sentence, press
BACK
to erase any
letters and type the letters you wish.
5. Press
CLEAR
to clear the words.
✓ Sentences vs. Phrases
The Speech Card does not differentiate phrases
from complete sentences. Therefore, you can type
any kind of phrase you want and it will pronounce
each word, as long as it recognizes each word.