Plextalk POCKET PTP1 User manual

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PLEXTALK POCKET PTP1
version 6
User's Guide for U.S. English
©2008 Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.

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IMPORTANT NOTICES
FCC NOTICE
Declaration of Conformity
Model Number: PTP1
Trade Name: PLEXTALK
Responsible party: Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.
Address: 1078, Kami-maruko, Ueda-shi, Nagano-ken 386-0498 JAPAN
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules; Operation is subject to the following
two conditions:
(1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may
cause undesired operation.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This
equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed
and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a
particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or
television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the
user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:
•Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
•increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
•Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.
•Consult the dealer or an experienced radio / TV technician for help.
CAUTION: Any changes or modification not expressly approved by the party responsible
for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
Canadian Department of Communications Statement

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This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from
digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian
Department of Communications.
This class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.
Cet appareil numerique de la classe B est conforme a la norme NMB-003 du Canada.
CAUTION: Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those
specified herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure.

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Table of Contents
IMPORTANT NOTICES ........................................................................................................2
FCC NOTICE.....................................................................................................................2
Canadian Department of Communications Statement.......................................................2
Table of Contents ................................................................................................................4
1. Safety precaution and legal information .....................................................................10
1.1. Important safety information......................................................................................10
1.2. Legal and copyright information...............................................................................14
1.2.1. Copyright information about this guide...............................................................14
1.2.2. Restrictions on copying or recording ..................................................................15
1.3. Licenses and trademarks..........................................................................................15
2. Getting started...............................................................................................................17
2.1. Terminology and conventions used...........................................................................17
2.2. What you get in the box ............................................................................................17
2.3. Description of the unit ...............................................................................................18
2.3.1. Front face ...........................................................................................................18
2.3.2. Top edge ............................................................................................................19
2.3.3. Left edge.............................................................................................................19
2.3.4. Right edge..........................................................................................................20
2.3.5. Bottom edge.......................................................................................................20
2.3.6. Back face............................................................................................................20
2.4. Inserting the battery ..................................................................................................20
2.5. Charging PLEXTALK ................................................................................................21
2.6. Maintenance and battery care...................................................................................22
2.6.1. Unit care.............................................................................................................22
2.6.2. Battery care........................................................................................................22
2.6.3. Crossed-out dustbin mark...................................................................................23
2.7. Turning PLEXTALK on and off..................................................................................23
2.8. Key Describer function..............................................................................................24
2.9. Key Lock function......................................................................................................24
2.10. Inserting and ejecting SD card................................................................................24
3. Introduction to the menu system.................................................................................26
3.1. Main menu ................................................................................................................26
3.2. Accessing and navigating the menu..........................................................................26
3.3. Shortcut for the menu selection.................................................................................27
4. Setting up your PLEXTALK ..........................................................................................28
4.1. Setting the date and time..........................................................................................28
4.2. Selecting your preferred synthetic voice ...................................................................28

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4.3. Selecting a preferred waiting sound..........................................................................28
4.4. Selecting the Key Press Confirmation Sound ...........................................................29
5. Power management features........................................................................................30
5.1. Battery low warning...................................................................................................30
5.2. Automatic power off function.....................................................................................30
5.3. Compulsory power off function..................................................................................30
5.4. Sleep timer function ..................................................................................................30
5.4.1. Setting the sleep timer........................................................................................31
5.4.2. Cancelling the sleep timer ..................................................................................31
6. Playing features common to all formats......................................................................32
6.1. Start and stop playback.............................................................................................32
6.2. Fast forward or fast rewind........................................................................................32
6.3. Changing the playback volume.................................................................................33
6.4. Changing the playback speed...................................................................................33
6.5. Changing the audio tone...........................................................................................33
6.6. Changing the guide volume ......................................................................................34
6.7. Changing the guide speed........................................................................................34
6.8. Accessing the Navigation menu................................................................................34
6.9. Selecting the media and title.....................................................................................35
6.10. Title navigation........................................................................................................35
6.10.1. How to navigate the title ...................................................................................35
6.10.2. How to play music ............................................................................................36
6.11. Go to a title directly .................................................................................................36
6.12. Switching sorting order of titles ...............................................................................37
6.13. Getting information about media and title................................................................37
6.14. Getting information on the current status................................................................38
6.15. Selecting a playback mode .....................................................................................38
6.16. Using bookmarks ....................................................................................................38
6.16.1. Types of bookmark...........................................................................................38
6.16.2. Inserting bookmarks .........................................................................................39
6.16.3. Navigating to bookmarks..................................................................................39
6.16.4. Clearing bookmarks..........................................................................................40
6.16.5. Turning on and off Voice Bookmark speech.....................................................41
6.17. Understanding how PLEXTALK groups files and folders ........................................41
7. Playing DAISY titles.......................................................................................................42
7.1. Heading navigation ...................................................................................................42
7.2. Moving to the beginning or end of the title ................................................................42
7.3. Page navigation ........................................................................................................43
7.4. Group navigation.......................................................................................................43
7.5. Phrase navigation .....................................................................................................43
7.6. 10 minutes skip, 30 seconds skip..............................................................................44

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7.7. Navigating by screen, paragraph, line, sentence, spell, word or character in case of
DAISY text mode..............................................................................................................44
7.8. Navigating by percentage .........................................................................................44
7.9. Navigating by keyword..............................................................................................44
7.10. Playback mode........................................................................................................45
7.11. Multimedia DAISY playback setting ........................................................................46
8. Playing "Recordings"....................................................................................................47
9. Playing Audio Files or Music CDs................................................................................48
9.1. Track navigation........................................................................................................48
9.2. Album navigation.......................................................................................................49
9.3. 10 minutes skip, 30 seconds skip..............................................................................49
9.4. Playback mode..........................................................................................................49
9.5. Announcing albums and tracks by name or number.................................................50
9.6. About playing sequences..........................................................................................50
9.7. Restrictions on Audio Files........................................................................................50
10. Playing Text Files ........................................................................................................51
10.1. Navigating by screen, paragraph, line, sentence, spell, word or character .............51
10.2. Navigating by percentage .......................................................................................51
10.3. Navigating by keyword............................................................................................52
10.4. Navigating by page .................................................................................................53
10.5. Navigating by heading.............................................................................................53
10.6. Playback mode........................................................................................................53
11. Playing Audio Book.....................................................................................................54
12. Recording a DAISY title...............................................................................................55
12.1. Basic information about recording with PLEXTALK ................................................55
12.2. Recording hardware................................................................................................55
12.3. Recording media.....................................................................................................56
12.4. Recording states.....................................................................................................56
12.5. DAISY editing mode................................................................................................56
12.6. Basic recording technique.......................................................................................57
12.7. Muting the guide speech when recording................................................................57
12.8. Connecting and selecting an input source ..............................................................58
12.9. Selecting a recording mode and sound quality setting............................................59
12.9.1. About recording modes and sound quality .......................................................59
12.9.2. Selecting a preset recording mode...................................................................60
12.9.3. Selecting the Custom recording mode..............................................................61
12.10. Selecting the title to record into.............................................................................62
12.11. Setting the recording level.....................................................................................62
12.12. Using the level monitor..........................................................................................63
12.13. Turning the recording monitor on and off ..............................................................64
12.14. Getting recording information................................................................................64
13. Editing a DAISY title ....................................................................................................65

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13.1. Editing heading markers during recording...............................................................65
13.2. Setting a heading after recording............................................................................65
13.3. Cancelling a heading setting after recording...........................................................66
13.4. Removing a section or multiple sections.................................................................66
14. Media management features ......................................................................................68
14.1. Erasing an SD card or USB device.........................................................................68
14.2. Creating a new title .................................................................................................68
14.3. Deleting a title .........................................................................................................68
14.4. Deleting a file ..........................................................................................................69
14.5. Preparing to edit a DAISY title.................................................................................69
14.6. Building a DAISY title..............................................................................................70
15. Using PLEXTALK's Voice Memo functions...............................................................71
15.1. Recording a new Voice Memo ................................................................................71
15.2. Reviewing existing Voice Memos............................................................................71
15.3. Back up Voice Memos to SD card...........................................................................72
15.4. Deleting Voice Memos............................................................................................72
16. Backup..........................................................................................................................73
16.1. General backup information....................................................................................73
16.2. Back up Voice Memos ............................................................................................73
16.3. Backup a title...........................................................................................................74
16.4. Backup time for music CD.......................................................................................74
17. Entering text.................................................................................................................76
17.1. Entering alphabet by ABC mode.............................................................................76
17.2. Entering numbers by number mode........................................................................77
17.3. Entering symbols by Symbol table..........................................................................77
17.4. Moving entering position .........................................................................................78
17.5. Enter space, linefeed and erase characters............................................................78
18. Network settings..........................................................................................................79
18.1. Connecting to the wireless network.........................................................................79
18.1.1. Enable wireless network device........................................................................79
18.1.2. Confirm available wireless network and connect..............................................79
18.2. How PLEXTALK connects to a network..................................................................81
18.3. Advanced Network settings.....................................................................................81
18.3.1. Confirming network information........................................................................81
18.3.2. Loading network setting....................................................................................82
18.3.3. Saving the network setting................................................................................82
18.3.4. Adding wireless network setting .......................................................................83
18.3.5. Change or delete wireless network setting.......................................................83
18.3.6. Network folder setting.......................................................................................84
18.3.7. Initializing network settings to default ...............................................................85
19. Podcast receiver..........................................................................................................87
19.1. Registering podcast feeds.......................................................................................87

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19.1.1. Registering podcast feeds using the "PLEXTALK Transfer" software ..............87
19.1.2. Registering podcast feeds using podcast receiver software.............................88
19.2. Listening to Podcasts..............................................................................................89
19.3. Navigating by Episode, 10 minutes or 30 seconds..................................................89
19.4. Obtaining the latest episode list ..............................................................................90
19.5. Download all Episodes of the feed..........................................................................90
19.6. Notice during the download.....................................................................................90
20. Web radio streaming...................................................................................................92
20.1. Adding web radio station to the playlist...................................................................92
20.2. Listening to web radio.............................................................................................92
21. Network folder function ..............................................................................................93
21.1. Set LAN manager authentication level of windows PC ...........................................93
21.2. Start Network Folder...............................................................................................94
21.3. Log on to the Network Folder at your computer......................................................95
21.4. Finish Network Folder.............................................................................................95
22. Using PLEXTALK as an external drive ......................................................................96
22.1. What can PLEXTALK be used for when connected to a personal computer? ........96
22.2. Connecting PLEXTALK to a computer....................................................................96
22.3. Disconnecting PLEXTALK from a computer ...........................................................97
23. Other useful features...................................................................................................98
23.1. Accessing the built in help file.................................................................................98
23.2. Checking system properties....................................................................................98
23.3. "Skippable" settings ................................................................................................98
23.4. Deleting authorization keys.....................................................................................99
23.5. Reset PLEXTALK to factory defaults ......................................................................99
Appendix A: Main Specifications...................................................................................101
General specifications....................................................................................................101
Audio features................................................................................................................102
Main functions................................................................................................................103
Battery specifications.....................................................................................................104
Memory Card Drive of a personal computer via USB cable...........................................105
Wireless communication function...................................................................................105
Appendix B: Menu Hierarchy..........................................................................................106
Appendix C: Troubleshooting ........................................................................................109
General operating problems...........................................................................................109
Spoken errors during DAISY playback...........................................................................110
Errors using the Voice Memo.........................................................................................110
Errors when using PLEXTALK as an SD card drive on a computer...............................110
Appendix D: Technical data about recording modes and sound qualities ................112
1. Recording mode settings ...........................................................................................112
2. Settings for preset recording modes ..........................................................................112
3. Available settings for Custom mode...........................................................................113

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4. Available recording time for the specified sound qualities..........................................113
Appendix E: Questions and Answers on Network setting...........................................115
Appendix F: List of entering characters.......................................................................117

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1. Safety precaution and legal information
1.1. Important safety information
Failure to follow these safety instructions could result in fire, electric shock, or other
injuries, or damage to PLEXTALK or other property. Read all the safety information below
before using PLEXTALK.
The symbols below differentiate the level of danger.
! DANGER
This symbol denotes that death or serious injuries may directly result from improper use.
! WARNING
This symbol denotes that death or serious injuries may result from improper use.
! CAUTION
This symbol denotes that bodily injuries or damage to property may result from improper
use.
< Traffic accident >
! DANGER
Do not use while walking outdoor. Otherwise, it may cause traffic accident.
! DANGER
Do not use while riding or driving. Otherwise, it may cause traffic accident.
< Emergency >
! DANGER
If the equipment smokes or gives off a strange smell, immediately turn off the power,
disconnect the power plug from the power outlet, remove the battery and contact your
dealer. Be careful burn injury because the equipment and battery may still be high-
temperature.
< Battery >
! WARNING
If the battery pack leaks, immediately remove it from power outlet and fire, and contact
your dealer. The vapors from leaking battery pack fluid may ignite or explode. If battery
fluid gets into your eyes, wash them with water and consult a physician immediately. If the