April 12, 1988

Notes on using Davex with an Echo speech synthesizer

1.	Put a copy of PT.OBJ in the same directory as Davex, and it will be loaded automatically.  PT.OBJ is part of the Textalker software which has been licensed from Street Electronics Corporation, the designer of the Echo, for distribution with Davex.

2.	Hold down the plain Apple key (the left-hand Apple on the 2 e, and the wide key to the left of the space bar on the GS) if you need to force Davex to reload PT.OBJ--this may be necessary while returning to Davex from some programs which partly overwrite the speech software.

3.	On the GS, turn off keyboard buffering for best results.  You can turn keyboard buffering off using the "conp" command from Davex.  Type "help conp" for details.

4.	Davex uses some characters that are not pronounced in "Some punctuation" mode.  Type control e M to change to "most" mode.  Most notably, hyphens are very important to Davex, and square brackets are used in the help files to show things that are optional.

5.	Because indentation is not audible, the "cat -t" command pronounces ">" when it indents for a subdirectory and "<" when it unindents out of a subdirectory.

(End of Echo Notes)