Kapsys kapten User manual

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kapten
USER GUIDE
(Revision 12)
www.kapsys.com

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Using the product - Safety instructions
NORMAL CONDITIONS OF USE
kapten®is an urban GPS system whose interface is entirely vocal, designed
by the company "Kapsys" (hereafter referred to as "Kapsys"). It is intended for
multi-transport navigation (by foot, public transport, bicycle, motorbike /
moped, car) in French and European cities. It helps you to get about, locate
yourself geographically and is used to create K-tags. It also features an
integrated MP3 player and an FM receiver.
The K-tag feature allows users to pinpoint their favourite locations whenever
they wish. The device geolocates the position of a given location and in
particular enables you to create an associated voice memo. You can organise
and back-up your personal K-tags by uploading them to your mykapsys user
account on the Internet. You also have the option of sharing your K-tags with
the Kapsys community via the openshare community pages.
Fortheconditionsofuserelatingtoopenshare andmykapsys,pleaseseethe
General Terms and Conditions of Use, available for consultation at the Internet
address: www.kapsys.com, under the Legal Notice section.
* registered trademark.
Install Kapmanager software stored on your kapten , you will be able to:
• to download free software upgrade
• to synchronise your kapten with www.kapsys.com web site
• to download GPS and radar data bases updates
• to import and manage your musics
• to download free podcast

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LIMITATIONS OF USE - SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
• Read the instructions carefully before using the product;
• This product is not waterproof;
• Handle the device with care, do not drop or knock it;
• Do not disassemble the product as it may nullify the guarantee and
damage the product, thereby potentially rendering it unusable;
• Do not expose the product to extreme temperatures;
• Only clean the product with a slightly damp, soft cloth. Using chemical or
abrasive products or detergents may damage the device.
• Drive responsibly and respect road safety rules;
• Always check traffic conditions before following an oral instruction and
obey traffic signs and the highway code;
• Listening to the music player at full volume for prolonged periods could
damage your hearing.

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Guarantees - Limitations of responsibility
GUARANTOR
The guarantor is the manufacturer of the product "kapten", the company
Kapsys, whose headquarters are located at 790 avenue du Docteur Maurice
Donat in Mougins Sophia Antipolis (06250), France.
SUBJET OF THE LIMITED GUARANTEE
Kapsys guarantees to the purchaser that the product is manufactured in
Europe and conforms to its description [on the website www.kapsys.com ] in
compliance with the provisions of articles L.21 1-1 forward, of the French
Consumer Code.
Kapsys guarantees the initial purchaser, from the date that the product was
purchased, that the product is free from manufacturing and material defects
and / or faults when used under normal conditions and according to its
intended purpose.
The kapten product has a commercial guarantee of one (1) year. Throughout
the duration of this commercial guarantee, the product is, as Kapsys sees fit,
either repaired free of charge by Kapsys and / or any Kapsys-approved service
provider, or replaced free of charge.
The Kapsys guarantee does not cover:
• normal wear and tear of the product;
• damage occasioned by misuse, dampness or liquid, contact with or
exposure to sources of heat;
• broken or cracked devices with visible impacts;
• disregard of safety instructions, accidents, negligence, improper use or use
not complying with the instructions accompanying the device, commercial
use of the product;
• damaged caused by repairs carried out by persons who are not Kapsys-
approved.
The present limited guarantee complies with the applicable legislation, and
excludes any other implicit guarantee and / or obligation on the part of the
seller, in particular and non-exhaustively, any satisfactory quality obligations,
or obligations of reliability, availability, accuracy and completeness of results,
responses and / or information supplied by the product, accessibility of data.
LIMITATIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Under no circumstances can Kapsys be held liable for any damage and / or
losses of any kind, direct or indirect, general or specific, that you or a third party
may suffer that were caused by or attributable to the use of this instruction
manual or the products it describes as well as the inability to use the product
or any of its functions.

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kapten User Guide
Introducing kapten................................................................ 1
A brief presentation of kapten........................................................................................... 2
The technology used........................................................................................................... 3
A technical overview of kapten ......................................................................................... 6
Pack contents ................................................................................................................... 6
Technical Characteristics ................................................................................................. 8
Interacting with kapten ........................................................ 9
Interacting vocally with kapten....................................................................................... 10
Navigating in a voice menu ........................................................................................... 13
Interacting using key-words ........................................................................................... 15
The headset ....................................................................................................................20
Familiarising yourself with kapten's buttons and sockets............................................ 21
Front view ...................................................................................................................... 21
Top view ........................................................................................................................ 26
Right-hand side .............................................................................................................. 27
Left hand side .................................................................................................................28
Understanding the lights on your kapten....................................................................... 29
"K" button indication lights ........................................................................................... 29
Function button indication lights ................................................................................... 29
Navigation mode indicator lights ...................................................................................31
Other indication lights ................................................................................................... 32
Using your kapten............................................................... 35
Prior to using your kapten.............................................................................................. 36
Switching kapten on ....................................................................................................... 36
Recharging kapten ......................................................................................................... 36
Unlocking your kapten ................................................................................................... 37
Navigating with the GPS function................................................................................... 38
Prior to using kapten's GPS navigation function ........................................................... 38
Launching GPS navigation ............................................................................................ 39
During GPS navigation .................................................................................................. 47
Listening to music with the MP3 function ..................................................................... 48
Prior to using kapten for listening to music ................................................................... 48

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The procedure for playing music ................................................................................... 49
While music is playing .................................................................................................. 53
Listening to the radio with the FM function.................................................................. 54
Prior to using kapten for listening to music ................................................................... 54
Listening to the radio with kapten ................................................................................. 54
While the radio is playing .............................................................................................. 57
Telephoning with the CALL function............................................................................. 58
Prior to using kapten's telephone function ..................................................................... 58
Making a telephone call using kapten ............................................................................ 59
Taking or rejecting an incoming call ............................................................................. 62
Creating K-tags................................................................................................................. 63
Synchronising kapten.......................................................... 65
Web Site............................................................................................................................. 66
Mykapsys .......................................................................................................................67
Openshare .....................................................................................................................69
Easystore ....................................................................................................................... 70
Learn&use .....................................................................................................................71
The kapmanager application........................................................................................... 72
Installing kapmanager .................................................................................................... 72
Familiarising yourself with kapmanager ....................................................................... 73
Using kapmanager ........................................................................................................ 74
kaplet ................................................................................................................................. 78

Introducing kapten
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Introducing
kapten
This chapter introduces kapten. It presents the background to its
development, the needs it meets and the technology it is based upon.
This chapter also covers the technical characteristics of kapten and
includes a visual presentation of the product.
The current chapter is divided up into the following sections:
•A brief presentation of kapten
•The technology used
•A technical overview of kapten

Introducing kapten - A brief presentation of kapten
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1.1 A brief presentation of kapten
Modern society is characterised by the increasing mobility of citizens from all
around the world. Everywhere you go, multimedia content is being exchanged
or transferred from one environment to another and people are swapping
points of view, sharing cultures, resources and even experiences from the four
corners of the planet.
Something was needed to bring all this activity together in harmony. Today,
thanks to the company Kapsys, a solution has been found.
That solution is right in front of you now. Its name: kapten.
kapten is the first of its kind from the Smart Urban Navigator generation. It is
an innovative mobile navigation system principally based on satellite
geolocation (GPS) and vocal interaction (speech synthesis and voice
recognition).
However, kapten is so much more than a "simple GPS sat nav" system. You
can take advantage of its intelligence to enhance all your urban experiences:
• find the best routes whatever your mode of transport (by foot, bicycle,
motorbike or car);
• never be without your favourite music by downloading audio files or saving
FM radio stations;
• make or receive calls at any time, and speak with your contact using
Bluetooth;
• use the community platform (www.kapsys.com) to share experiences and
the addresses of great spots, to manage your kapten settings and content
and to buy on-line items such as new navigation maps or accessories etc.;
• geotag the best restaurants, museums, parks, bars etc. that you come
across
"Geotagging" a location means saving its geographical
position and attributing certain information to it via a
dedicated interface or web site

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1.2 The technology used
Despite its small size - barely bigger than a credit card - kapten contains an
impressive range of advanced technologies:
• a GPS navigation system with a map of France;
• a speech synthesis system;
• a voice-recognition system;
• an MP3 player;
• an FM radio receiver;
• a Bluetooth interface;
• a USB connection.
The paragraphs below provide a brief description of this technology and how it
is applied in kapten.
GPS
The GPS system (Global Positioning System) is the first satellite geolocation
system in the world. The system's 24 satellites orbit the Earth at an altitude of
20 200km. Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, it enables
anyone with access to a GPS receiver to find out their position on Earth and
is accurate to within 10 metres.
In order for the user to be able to effectively "navigate" using a navigation
system, the satellite data must be associated to map-based data and
processed by a navigation engine.
Map-based data provides typological information for a given area of the Earth's
surface (a country, city etc.) to which various attributes are associated: name,
speed limits, height and weight limits etc. This information also covers various
points of interest: restaurants, cinemas, museums, garages etc.
The navigation engine is a software system based on GPS satellite data and
map-based data which guides the user from point A to point B on the surface
of the planet. kapten's navigation engine applies a certain number of
navigation rules, depending on the user's navigation mode (See «Navigating
with the GPS function», page 38)

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VOICE RECOGNITION AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Voice recognition allows the user to give commands orally to the system
being used, rather than manually entering them in via a tactile interface
(keyboard, buttons etc.).
Use the voice recognition in kapten for:
• selecting a function you wish to activate and navigating in the
corresponding voice menus (See «Navigating in a voice menu», page 13);
• entering a destination (See «Navigating with the GPS function», page 38);
• stating the name of a contact you wish to call (See «Telephoning with the
CALL function», page 58);
• choosing from between different music-selection criteria: album title, artist,
song etc. (See «Listening to music with the MP3 function», page 48).
You can speak instructions directly into the microphone on kapten's headset
(See «The headset», page 20).
Speech synthesis is an IT sound synthesis technique for creating artificial
oral articulation of any text. To do so it uses both linguistic processing
techniques, for transforming orthographical text into a phonetic version which
can be pronounced unambiguously, and signal processing techniques for
transforming this phonetic version into a digitalised sound which can be
listened to through a speaker.
kapten combines speech synthesis and voice recognition to form the vocal
interface between the device and the user.
MP3 PLAYER
MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3) is an audio compression format for storing
sound with a compression ratio of 1 to 12, without any loss of sound quality
audible to the human ear.
kapten utilizes an MP3 player for reading music files saved in MP3 format in
its storage space

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FM RECEIVER
kapten utilizes an FM (Frequency Modulation) receiver to pick up radio
broadcasts, wherever the user happens to be at the time
BLUETOOTH
The Bluetooth interface allows kapten to communicate with the mobile
telephone and provides the following functions:
• hands-free kit: telephone calls are managed directly through kapten;
• voice dialling; the telephone number is automatically dialled by stating the
name of the contact out loud;
USB CONNECTION
The Universal Serial Bus, commonly known as USB, features a plug and play
function (a system for automatically detecting and configuring material).
It provides a double function in kapten:
• Connecting locally to a computer: kapten is regarded as a storage device
(a bit like a USB flash drive) with a 3 GB capacity. The user can then drag
and drop any type of file from the computer to kapten and vice versa via
kapmanager (see "The kapmanager Application", page 70).
• Internet connection via a computer: in this configuration, kapten connects
to the Kapsys Internet site (www.kapsys.com) via the computer. Users can
then synchronise their personal data and make purchases on line (see
"Synchronising kapten", page 63).
kapten utilizes a USB 2.0 Full Speed connection.

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1.3 A technical overview of kapten
1.3.1 Pack contents
Your kapten comes with the following:
• a USB cable;
• a headset kit;
• the kapten Quick Start Guide
• the installing guide
USB CABLE
The USB cable provided with kapten is a USB A Plug- micro USB B Plug.
It is used for:
• recharging the battery of your kapten;
• connecting kapten up to the user's personal Kapsys web space to manage
settings and content and download extra data (maps, audio guides, K-tags)
from the openshare and easystore sites;
• synchronising the contents of your kapten with that of your computer
Figure 1 - 1 : USB cable provided with kapten
To connect your USB cable to your computer:
1 Plug the USB cable micro B-type connector into the kapten socket;
2Plug the USB cable A-type connector into your computer's socket
A USB mains charger for recharging your kapten's battery is also
available for purchase. Please visit the on-line shop easystore at
the following address: www.kapsys.com

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THEHEADSET
The headset includes a microphone and a button and enables the vocal
interface between the user and kapten.
It allows the user to:
• hear the voice menus (See «Navigating in a voice menu», page 13)
associated to each function - GPS, MP3, FM and CALL - and to state a
choice;
• follow navigation guidelines;
• listen to the radio and music;
• speak with a correspondent on the telephone.
Figure 1 - 2 : View of the microphone and the button featured on the headset provided with kapten
To plug in the headset:
1 Plug the 2.5 male jack of your headset into the socket on your kapten;
2Place the headphones in your ears and press one of the functions briefly to
check that you can hear the sound correctly
Please See «The headset», page 20, for more information
about the headphones..

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1.3.2 Technical Characteristics
The table below sets out the main technical characteristics of kapten:
kapten DIMENSIONS
Figure 1 - 3 : Your kapten
Tableau 1 - 1 : Technical characteristics of kapten
Characteristic Valeur
Size 74 x 44 x 13 mm (L x l x h)
Weight 50 g
kapten Storage
Capacity 3 Go
Autonomy
(according to
mode)
GPS : 6 h MP3 : 5 h
FM : 6 h
Sleep : 10 h Off : 17 jours

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Interacting with
kapten
This chapter describes how to interact with kapten via its various
interfaces: vocal interface (headphones with integrated microphone
and button), tactile interface (buttons and connection sockets) and
visual interface (LED indicators).
Here we introduce the central notion of the voice menu and explain the
possible modes of interaction between the user and kapten.
The following sections are dealt with:
• Interacting vocally with kapten
• Familiarising yourself with kapten's buttons and sockets
• Understanding the lights on your kapten

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2.1 Interacting vocally with kapten
User / kapten interaction is not only possible through the tactile interface made
up of buttons and LED indicators (see «Familiarising yourself with kapten's
buttons and sockets», page 21 and also see «Understanding the lights on your
kapten», page 29) but also via a vocal interface.
This section:
• introduces the notion of voice menus and vocal commands, which form
the main means of vocal interaction between the user and kapten;
• presents the various modes of interaction which are possible between the
user and kapten;
• describes the headset, which makes this interaction possible.
2.1.1 The fundamentals of vocal interaction
The vocal interaction between the user and kapten is based on voice menus
for the four functions (navigation, music, radio, hands-free telephone).
VOICE MENUS
Thevoicemenus are lists of choices given by kapten when the user activates
a particular function (navigation, music, radio, hands-free telephone).
Examples of voice menus
When the user launches the GPS navigation function for instance, the first step
is to choose a navigation mode:
Figure 2 - 1 : An example voice menu - Choosing the navigation mode
kapten then proposes a type of destination:
Please see «Using your kapten», page 35 for how to activate
a function and for discovering the voice menus associated to
each function

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Figure 2 - 2 : Exemple de menu vocal - Choix du type de destination
For each given voice menu, the user must choose from the list of options.
Users can make their selection either by:
•voice command, by stating one of the previously suggested options into
the headset microphone after the beep;
•tactile command, using kapten's buttons.
VOICE COMMAND
A voice command is a command which is spoken into the headset microphone
in response to a voice menu. We also say that the user "states their selection".
Depending on the mode of interaction chosen by the user, the command may
(see «Navigating in a voice menu», page 13) be stated:
•at the end of the menu, after you hear the beep (also called "prompt" or
"invitation");
•during the menu, after interrupting it by a short press on the headset
button;
•spontaneously, independent of a voice menu, by pronouncing a key-word
for example (see «Interacting using key-words», page 15).
A voice command is stated out loud into the headset microphone
Examples of voice commands
Following the previous example, the user (a pedestrian in this case) replies to
kapten'svoice menu by stating their choice of navigation mode after the beep:
For the voice command to be understood correctly by
kapten, it is recommended to speak clearly into the
microphone in an area with little background noise.

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Figure 2 - 3 : An example voice command - Choosing the navigation mode
kapten then goes to a second menu (see figure 2 - 2) and the user selects the
type of destination:
TACTILE COMMAND
A tactile command is one which is sent using kapten's tactile interface, i.e. by
pressing one of the buttons described in the section «Familiarising yourself
with kapten's buttons and sockets», page 21.
The tactile commands are set out further on (see «Navigating in a voice
menu», page 13
The vocal interaction is based on vocal exchange between
kapten and the user: kapten proposes a list of options or
asks a question and the user makes a selection from the list
or replies to the question.
Tactile commands are used in particular in confined areas as
an alternative to vocal commands

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2.1.2 Navigating in a voice menu
When navigating in a voice menu, the user may decide:
• to use the vocal interface exclusively, i.e. listen to the voice menus in full,
wait for the beep, then state the vocal command and pass on to the next
voice menu;
• to use the tactile interface exclusively, i.e. interrupt the voice menu
immediately, navigate in the menu and make a selection manually before
passing on to the next menu;
• to use both interfaces at the same time.
We call the method chosen by the user for navigating in a voice menu and
making selections the "mode of interaction".
The table below shows the different modes of interaction that are possible
The following procedures show how to navigate in the menus according to the
user's preferred mode of interaction.
Navigating in a voice menu - Vocal beginner mode:
1Listen to the voice menu in full;
2Wait for the beep which marks the end of the menu;
3State your choice using the microphone on the headset.
Table 2 - 1 : The different modes of interaction
Mode of
interaction Type of interaction Description
Vocal
beginner Vocal The user listens to all the options from the voice menu, waits for the beep at the end
of the menu and states the selection out loud
Vocal expert Vocal +
Tactile The user presses the button on the headset to state the chosen option before the end of the voice
menu
Non-vocal
beginner Tactile The user presses the K button as soon as the desired choice is
heard.
Non-vocal
beginner Tactile The user presses the menu buttons and to
scroll through the options one by one.
Whenthe desired option is reached, the user
presses the K button to validate the choice made
If kapten does not understand a voice command, you will
hear the message "Please try again", then say the voice
command again in full.