Toby Churchill Lightwriter Swift User manual

Lightwriter Swift

Complete User Guide

SWIFT

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This is a User Guide for Lightwriter Swift

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Contents

Welcome to Your Lightwriter Swift .................................................................................................................. 5

Charging ....................................................................................................................................................... 6

The Keyboard ................................................................................................................................................ 7

Settings Wizard ............................................................................................................................................. 8

Home Bar ......................................................................................................................................................9

Talk ............................................................................................................................................................. 10

Phrases and Topics ..................................................................................................................................... 18

QuickChat ................................................................................................................................................... 26

QuickSounds ............................................................................................................................................... 29

Notebook .................................................................................................................................................... 32

Settings ....................................................................................................................................................... 40

Connectivity ................................................................................................................................................ 51

Cleaning and Maintenance ......................................................................................................................... 56

Troubleshooting ........................................................................................................................................... 61

Index ........................................................................................................................................................... 64

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WELCOME

Welcome to Your Lightwriter Swift

Dedicated text-to-speech communication is now available in one handy, portable device.

What’s in the Box

1 Lightwriter Swift

2 Data cable

3 Charger

4 Long and short lanyards

5 Quick Start and User Guide

6 Keyguards

7 Screwdriver and keyguard release tool

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WELCOME

Charging

You should fully charge your Swift before using it for the first time, and allow it to sleep and charge for at

least 6 hours each night to ensure a full day of use.

Connect the charger to the USB port as shown below, and check the indicators at both ends of the charger

which light to show it is working correctly. You can continue to use your Swift while it is charging.

If the battery becomes low during use, the light to the bottom-left of the user display will change to amber

and then red. You will also hear an alert. Your Swift will eventually turn itself off if it is not charged, and the

light will turn red for a short time when a key is pressed to show that a charger is needed.

Your Swift will automatically go to sleep when it is not being used, to make the battery last longer. Press Home

to wake your Swift again. You can change how quickly your Swift goes to sleep using Sleep Time in Settings.

Top Tip

To check if the Swift’s battery is low,

look at the light to the bottom-left of the

user display.

Green: your Swift is currently charging.

Amber: the battery is low.

Red: you only have a short time before

the Swift will run out of battery.

No Light: battery is normal.

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WELCOME

The Keyboard

Joystick Move around and select.

Do Select an item.

Speak Speak your text.

Home Show the Home Bar or wake

your Swift.

Hold down to restart.

Cancel Delete or undo text, and

cancel speech or sounds.

Menu

Show the menu for each

activity. Return settings to

default.

Press the Home key to turn on your Swift.

To change how your keys and joystick work, see

the Keyboard section of Settings.

Top Tip

To restart your Swift, hold down Home until

the display changes and then release the key.

Top Tip

If you ﬁnd you are often pressing the centre of

the joystick accidentally, you can turn it o in

Settings and use the Do key instead.

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WELCOME

Settings Wizard

The wizard runs through some essential settings so you can easily

personalise your Swift. You may see the wizard when your device is

first turned on.

Move your joystick up and down to change the value of a setting,

or move left and right to select the minimum and maximum

respectively. Press Do to save a new value and move on to the next

settings.

•Voice and Language – Select a speaking voice. Your predictions, phrases, QuickChats and corrections

will match the language of your chosen voice.

•Voice Pitch – Make your voice individual by making it sound higher or lower. The pitch will be

remembered separately for each voice.

•Colour – Choose a colour scheme for the user display to personalise your Swift. The two high visibility

options can help with visual impairment.

•Joystick Select – If you find that the central select on the joystick is being pressed accidentally, you can

turn it off and use the Do key instead.

•Time – Set the current time for your Swift. The time is shown as a 24-hour clock; set the hours first,

followed by the minutes.

•Date – Set the current date for your Swift. Set the day first, followed by the month and year.

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WELCOME

Home Bar

Press Home at any time to show the main menu on your Swift, the Home Bar.

It shows each of the available activities and the current date and time.

Activity Name

Activities

Clock

Talk Notebook

QuickChat Settings

QuickSounds Volume

Phrases and

Topics Sleep

Pressing Menu on the Home Bar will produce a ‘Buzz’ sound. You can choose which sound will play in

Settings.

Select Volume to change how loud the speech, sounds and alerts are on your Swift.

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TALK

Talk

This is the most important activity on your Swift for text-to-speech

communication. You will see the Talk activity first when you turn on

your Swift.

The Talk screen is divided into two sections: the bottom half

contains the predictions and keyboard, and the top half will show

the text you have created. This is called the text line.

Once you have typed a piece of text, press Speak to read it

out. It will also appear on the out-facing partner display for your

communication partner to read.

Predictions

Predictions suggest what you are most likely to say by learning the way you use words and language. The

more you type and talk, the more accurate and personal they will become!

Scroll through the predictions using your joystick, and press Do to select.

As well as single words, you can also choose to enhance your predictions by showing word pairs. These

will appear if two words are frequently used together, for example thank you or Toby Churchill. See

Prediction Mode in Settings for more information.

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TALK

On-Screen Keyboard

If you cannot find the right prediction, you can

enter a new word letter-by-letter using the on-

screen keyboard. Move left with your joystick and

the keyboard will slide out.

To use the keyboard:

1 Move to the group of letters containing the

character you want to use, and press Do to

select the group.

2 Move left or right and press Do to select the

character you want to use. It will be added to

the text line.

3 Continue to enter more characters, or move

right to select an updated prediction.

When you move right to select a

prediction, the keyboard will disappear

again.

Any new word entered on the keyboard

will automatically be remembered by

your predictions.

Top Tip

To stop the keyboard

from disappearing,

select Fix Keyboard

in the Talk Menu.

Punctuation

Letters

Alternative

Keyboard

Space New Line

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TALK

Alternative Keyboards

Select the Alternative Keyboard icon in the bottom-left to change the available characters on your keyboard.

abc Punctuation Numbers Accents ABC

The capitalised ABC keyboard will automatically appear when

you’re at the start of a new line or sentence.

The keyboards may change depending on the language of your

speaking voice.

Speaking

To read out any new text you have entered, press Speak. To repeat

it, press Speak again.

A new line will also be added when you press Speak, separating

your text into blocks. Only new text entered since the last new line

will be read out when you press Speak, so that you do not have to

clear the text line to say something new.

“When are

you free?”

Top Tip

To make your keyboard and

predictions always appear in upper

case, see All Caps in Settings.

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TALK

You can also choose to have your text spoken automatically with Auto Speech in Settings:

•Letter – Speaks each letter as you enter it, and each word when you enter a space.

•Word – Speaks each word when you enter a space.

•Sentence – Speaks each sentence after you enter a full stop .

question mark ? or exclamation mark ! .

•Off – Only speaks when you press Speak.

Partner Display

Your text will also be shown on the out-facing partner display for your communication

partner to read.

You can choose when your text is shown on the partner display by using Partner

Mode in Settings. It has the following options:

•Show as Written – Show your text as it is entered onto the text line. This allows your conversation partner

to assist in your spoken communication.

•Show on Speak – Only shows text on the far display as it is spoken.

This allows you to have more control over your communication,

especially with Auto Speech set to Sentence or Off.

•Off – Never shows your text on the partner display, making your

speech the central communication method.

Top Tip

You can remove the new line

added automatically when

you press the Speak key by

pressing Cancel.

Top Tip

If your text is too long to be

shown on the partner display, it

will scroll as it is spoken.

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TALK

Automatic Corrections

You can automatically change the way a word is spelt or pronounced using corrections. These can be

created and managed in the Communication Stores section of Settings.

•Text Corrections – Your Swift can automatically correct common misspellings for you. For example, you

can choose to correct seperate to separate, and it will automatically adjust on the text line.

Alternatively, you can also use Text Corrections to create short abbreviations for longer words or

phrases. For example, you could choose to automatically correct tc to Toby Churchill.

You can only create one correction for each misspelling or abbreviation. Text corrections are case

sensitive.

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TALK

•Speech Corrections – Your Swift can change the way your current speaking voice pronounces individual

words.

To create a speech correction, try entering the word phonetically, in the way you would like it to sound.

Alternatively, try using dashes or spaces to break up longer words. For example, Fajita may sound better

as fahita or fa-heater.

Text Editing

•Undo – If you make a mistake at any time whilst entering text, you can press Cancel to undo your last

change. For example, if you have selected the wrong letter or prediction, it will be removed when you

press Cancel.

Cancel can also be used to undo automatic changes, such as the adding of new lines or spaces.

•Advanced Editing – You can repeat or edit your text by moving the joystick up from the predictions to

highlight the text line.

1 When you first select the text line, everything will be

highlighted. Press Speak to repeat all of your text, or Cancel to

clear it.

Press Do to return your cursor to the end of the text line.

Top Tip

If the text line is accidentally cleared,

press Cancel again to restore it.

“I would like a chicken

fa-heater please”

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TALK

2 To select individual speech blocks, continue to move your joystick up. The last piece of text will be

highlighted, and you can then move up and down to select previous blocks.

•To repeat a block of text, press Speak.

•To delete a block of text, press Cancel.

•To save a block as a QuickChat, phrase, or note, press Menu and

select Save As.

To put the cursor at the end of the block and continue entering text,

press Do.

3 To delete single letters, or to add new text anywhere on your

text line, move your joystick left or right to select individual

characters. Continue to use your joystick to move between characters.

•Press Cancel to delete the highlighted character.

•To begin adding new text, press Do. The cursor will stay in place,

and you will be able to use the predictions and keyboard to add

new text.

Top Tip

To quickly return the cursor to the bottom,

select the whole text line and press Do.

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TALK

Talk Menu

Press Menu to view more options for the Talk activity.

•Save As – Allows you to save the current piece of text as a

phrase, note, or QuickChat item.

•Fix Keyboard – Secures the on-screen keyboard so that it is

always visible. It will not be hidden when you select predictions.

•Private Talk – Temporarily turns off the partner display and any

speech in Talk, to make your conversation private.

•Delete Prediction – Completely remove the selected word from

your predictions. This cannot be undone!

•Add Prediction – If a word is not being learnt as a prediction,

you can add it here instead.

•Auto Speech – Quick access to the Auto Speech setting.

Top Tip

An icon will appear on your text line

to show when you are in Private Mode.

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PHRASES AND

TOPICS

Phrases and Topics

Phrases let you store short pieces of text, to make speaking them quick and easy.

Phrases can also be grouped into convenient topics, so you can find the right phrases at the appropriate

time. The phrase browser looks like this:

•Press Speak to read out a phrase and stay in the browser.

•Press Do to add the phrase to your text line.

Search Bar

Topic Bar

Phrases

Filter Keyboard

There are a few phrases already saved on your Swift, but you can add more. There are many types of

phrases you may want to save.

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PHRASES AND

TOPICS

•General Phrases – The things that you most commonly need to say in day-to-day life.

Pleased to meet you.

Hi, how are you?

See you soon.

What time does it start?

•Personal Phrases – These may contain information that is particular to you.

My name is Toby. Nice to meet you.

I’d like a white coffee without sugar please.

I have a hearing impairment.

Could you please speak more slowly?

•Partial Phrases – You may want to add an incomplete

sentence which you can quickly finish when you need to.

I am going to go to the...

Where is the...?

Please may I have a...

What time is the...?

•Phrases for a Particular Occasion or Event – It can help to plan some conversations in advance, for

example a meeting, a school lesson, or a visit to the doctors. Add some key phrases to a new topic to

make them easy to find.

Topic – Eating Out

May I please have a glass of... I don’t like peppers or mushrooms...

I am allergic to nuts... Does it contain any...? Can I have the bill please?

Top Tip

It can be helpful to look at a foreign

language phrase book to ﬁnd ideas

for common phrases.

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PHRASES AND

TOPICS

Using and Searching

There are three ways of searching for the phrase you want:

1 Use the joystick to move up and down the list. The most frequently used phrases are shown first, so

they are quick to find.

You can also move right to select the scroll bar, and move up and down the list a page at a time. Move

left again to select a phrase.

2 To search for a specific phrase, enter a key word. For example,

to find the phrase I would like a cup of tea please you may

want to search for tea or cup, as they are likely to have fewer

results.

Move left to view the filter keyboard and enter the search word.

The characters you enter will appear at the top of the browser,

and your phrases will be updated automatically.

3 Select one of the topics shown at the top of the browser to

view the phrases relevant to your current conversation. See

Topics for more information.

Top Tip

Phrases are initially arranged by frequency.

To sort them by recency or alphabetically

press Menu and select Sort.

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