To run Nuance Daisy2go:
1. Press [Menu] to open the phone’s main menu; if [Menu] is your [TALKS]
key, press it twice.
2. Navigate to the Applications or Installations folder, and press [Select] to open it.
3. Navigate to Daisy2go, and press [Select] to start the application.
Note: If you have activated “Auto-resume” in the Daisy2go settings, the last read book will be resumed, or you will be prompted for its resume (see section ).
The Bookshelf is the starting point for Daisy2go. You can add new books,
read books, or remove books from the bookshelf. When the bookshelf is empty,
Daisy2go will prompt you to add books when the application is started.
The list of books on your bookshelf shows their title and author. You
can press [*] to move to the first or last entry in that
list, and [0] to mark or unmark a book. You can close Daisy2go
by pressing [Key 2] (Exit).
The following options are available by pressing [Key 1] (Options):
· Open table of content: This will load the structure of the currently selected
DAISY book, and opens its table of contents. Alternatively, you can simply press
[Select] to open the currently selected DAISY title.
· Open bookmarks: This option is visible only if bookmarks have been defined for
the selected DAISY title in the book list. It opens the Bookmarks view
(see section ).
· New book: This allows adding more DAISY titles to your bookshelf (see section
).
· DAISY-fy: This allows putting any folder with a bunch of MP3 audio files
onto the bookshelf (see section ).
· Sort by: With this option, you can sort the list of books on
the bookshelf by author, title, l ast read , or its d ate of production.
· Sort order: This allows setting the sort order (ascending or descending).
· Delete: With this option, you can delete the currently selected title, just from
the bookshelf, or completely from the phone.
· Mark/unmark: You can use this to mark or unmark one or more books
on your bookshelf, for further deletion. Alternatively, you can press [0] to mark/unmark
a single book in the list.
· Resume playback: starts playback of the current title again at the postion where
it was last stopped.
· Book info : This opens a list of book properties, including the author of
the book, its publisher, and the duration, plus a lot more. You can
also use this to view specific information by the publisher. This list also
shows the elapsed and remaining time of a title that is being played.
· Settings: Daisy2go offers a number of settings, which apply to all books (see
section ).
· About: This displays the Daisy2go version and copyright information.
· Exit: This will close Daisy2go.
2.2.1 Adding a book to the bookshelf
To add a new book to the list of DAISY titles on your bookshelf, go to the Bookshelf view, for instance by pressing [Key 2] (Back), until you reach the desired location. When on the Bookshelf view, follow these steps:
4. Press [Key 1] (Options).
5. Navigate to New book, and press [Select].
6. The Select memory dialogue appears; choose from the available locations ( Phone memory, Mass
memory), and press [Select].
7. The Select folder dialogue appears, and you can choose one of the folders
located on the chosen memory location. Select Root folder to find all DAISY
titles at that location, or navigate to a specific folder, and press [Select].
8. If you have selected a folder that is different from the Root folder,
you will now get a list of sub-folders. The first entry allows selecting
the current folder; the other entries are the sub-folders inside the currently selected
folder. After navigating to the folder of your choice, press [Select].
Note that [Key 1]
alternates between Search and Open.
9. When you have chosen another sub-folder, you have to repeat step 5, until you
have reached the desired location. At this point, press [Key 1] (Search) to retrieve
the list of DAISY titles located in the selected folder.
Note: When you press [Select] twice in step 3 above, you get a complete list of all DAISY titles found at the selected memory location, and you do not need to know where they are located.
10. The list of DAISY books in the selected location appears. To mark/unmark a
title from the list, you can press [Key 1] (Options), then select Mark/unmark. To
mark/unmark the currently selected title, you can simply press [Select] or [0].
11. Repeat step 7 to mark as many books from that list as you like.
12. Press [Key 1] (Options), then select Add to add these books to the bookshelf.
If no titles have been marked, the currently selected title will be added
to the bookshelf. [Key 2] (Cancel) aborts the operation, and no books will be
added.
2.2.2 DAISY-fy
If you have a bunch of MP3 files in a folder, such as
an MP3 audio book, you can use this feature to access that content
using Daisy2go. This creates an entry in the book list, but does not
really create a DAISY title. However, you can play these files, use cueing,
speed adjustment, bookmarks, etc.
To DAISY-fy a folder with MP3 files:
13. Go to the Bookshelf view, for instance by pressing [Key 2] (Back), until you
get there.
14. Press [Key 1] (Options), then select DAISY-fy.
15. Now, select the folder containing the MP3 files; this works like described in
section .
16. After the respective MP3 files have been identified, you are prompted for their
sort order. Select one of the available choices:
a. Author, album, track
b. Author, track
c. Folder, file name
17. Press [Key 1] (OK) to continue, or [Key 2] (Cancel) to abort the operation.
18. Now you will be prompted for a book name. After entering a name,
press [Key 1] (OK) to add the new title to the bookshelf, or [Key 2]
(Cancel) to abort the operation.
When a DAISY title is opened from the bookshelf, its table of content is displayed by default. The following choices are available when pressing [Key 1] (Options):
· Open bookshelf: This returns to the Bookshelf view. Note that you can cycle
through all views by pressing [#].
· Open/Close: When the table of content is displayed in tree view, Open displays
branches containing sub-chapters of the currently selected chapter. Close returns to the previous
level in this hierarchy. Alternatively, you can also use the [Right] and [Left]
keys to open and close branches of the content tree. Chapters that contain
sub-chapters are preceeded by an icon displaying a plus sign.
· View: The table of contents can be displayed in two views:
· Tree view: This displays the table of content as a tree of chapters,
sub-chapters, etc. It represents the logical structure of a DAISY title.
· List view: This shows the table of content as a list, without any
indication of its structure.
· Resume playback
· Book info
· Find text: Opens a dialog that lets you search for a word or
a phrase in the table of contents. You can then use the [#]
key to jump to the next occurrence. On phones with a touch screen,
a toolbar is displayed that lets you jump between the different occurrences.
· Settings
· About
· Exit
To play the audio associated with the selected entry in the table of
content, and display the corresponding text, whatever is available, press the [Select] key.
You can use [0] to quickly move to the top or bottom of
the content list or tree branch.
When the audio content of a DAISY book is played, the Text view
shows the corresponding text, and the current audio position is highlighted. If no
text is available, this will display the heading text. If no audio content
is available, or when playback is paused, you can use this screen to
read the text of the DAISY title.
You can move around the text using the navigation keys. If audio is
available, you can simply press the [Select] key at any time to continue
audio playback at the current location in the text. The closest position in
the audio content will be identified using the synchronization information stored for the
actual DAISY title.
When you press the [Select] key on an entry in the table of content, or at a location in the text part of a text+audio book, the audio part of that DAISY title is played. The following table lists the key commands available for the Text view.
Table : Text view key commands
· Enter a page number to move to that selected page in the DAISY
title; please note that not all DAISY books support page number navigation
· Enter a time position in h:mm:ss format, where [*] represents the colon
· Enter a percentage to move to the location that corresponds to the percentage
of duration of the audio part; note that you can use [#] to
represent the percent sign
You can also use the Go To > Position command in the Options
menu to open this dialog.
· Heading 1, …, Heading 6, depending upon the levels offered for the current DAISY
title
· Text block
· Phrase
When you press [Key 1] (Options) during playback, audio output is paused, and you
can select one of the following functions:
· Open table of content: This returns to the Content view (see section ).
· Add bookmark: This adds an entry to the list of bookmarks for the
current DAISY title. Alternatively, you can press [8] during audio playback, or when
reading the textual part of the book. See section for more information about
bookmarks.
· Open bookmarks: This option is visible only if bookmarks have been defined for
the current DAISY title. It opens the Bookmarks view for that book (see
section ).
· Open bookshelf: This returns to the Bookshelf view (see section ).
· Resume playback: This resumes playback about one second before the position played at
last.
· Open text/play view: Switches between text and play view for a text+audio book
· Find text: Opens a dialog that lets you search for a word or
a phrase in the text of the current title. On phones with a
touch screen, a toolbar is displayed that lets you jump between the different
occurrences of the text in the title.
· Go To / Speed: Contains some navigation functions that are also available through
the keyboard. See table above for details.
· Set sleep timer: Allows setting a timer that stops playback automatically after a
given time. While the sleep timer is active, this command changes to Cancel
sleep timer.
· Book info: Displays information about the current DAISY title
· Settings: Opens the Settings dialogue (see section ).
· About: Displays the A b out dialogue, with version and copyright information.
· Exit: Closes Daisy2go.
If bookmarks have been defined for a DAISY title, the Bookmarks view can
be reached from the Bookshelf and from the Text or Playback views, via
the options menu, or by pressing [#], until you reach the Bookmarks view.
The list of bookmarks is sorted in ascending order, by their position in
the DAISY book. You can press the [Select] key to move to the
corresponding position and start audio playback, if available. Pressing [*] moves the focus
to the first or last bookmark in the list.
When pressing [Key 1] (Options), you have the following choices:
· Delete: This deletes the currently selected bookmark. Alternatively, you can press the [Clear]
key when on that bookmark. A confirmation message will appear, and you can
press [Key 1] (OK) to delete, or [Key 2] (Cancel) to abort the deletion.
· Mark/unmark: When selecting this option, you can mark/unmark the currently selected bookmark, or
mark/unmark all bookmarks. You can use this to delete more than one bookmark
at once. To mark/unmark a single bookmark, you can also press [0].
· Exit: This closes Daisy2go.
You can open the Settings dialogue box from any view of the Daisy2go
application, except for the Bookmarks view. The Settings dialogue box consists of three
tab sheets, General, Audio, and Text, which are described in the following sections.
To move from one tab sheet to another, use the [Right] and [Left]
navigation keys.
The following settings are available on the General tab sheet. To change a
setting, press [Select].
· Sort bookshelf by: The book list displayed in the Bookshelf view can be
sorted according to Author, Title, production Date, or by a Last read order.
· Sort order: You can set the sort order to be Ascending or Descending.
· First screen for audio books: This defines the initial view for audio-only DAISY
titles, and you can set this to the default Table of content, or
to Bookmarks.
· First screen for text books: This defines the initial view for text-only, as
well as for text+audio titles. You can set this to Table of content,
Bookmarks, or Text content.
· Table of content view: This defines the initial presentation of the Content view,
and can be set to Tree view (the default), or to List view
(see section ).
· Resume on start-up: When this is set to Yes, the last played book
is resumed when Daisy2go starts. When set to Ask, you are prompted for
the continuation of that title.
· Auto-resume book: When set to Yes, any DAISY title is automatically resumed when
you open it. When set to Ask, you are prompted for the continuation
of that title.
This tab sheet defines settings related to audio playback. To change a setting,
press [Select].
· Cueing speed: This defines the speed for cueing backward or forward during audio
playback: 2x (the default), 4x, 8x, or 16x.
· Signalize headings and pages: Daisy2go can play a beep when a new page
or heading is skipped while cueing forward or backward. You can set this
to Off, Headings only, Pages only, or to Headings and pages.
The following settings define the text presentation for the Text view:
· Text size: You can choose between Extra small, Small, Medium, Large, and Extra
large. This setting does not affect the text size of views other than
the Text view.
· Text color / background: This allows choosing one of 16 colors for the
text foreground and background; press [Select] to confirm.
· Highlight color / background: This allows choosing the colors to be used when
text is highlighted.
Description
[1], [2], [3]
Reserved for future use
[4]
Decrease playback speed, without changing pitch. Alternatively, you
can use Speed > D ecreas e in the Options menu.
[5]
Return to normal playback
speed. Alternatively, you can use Speed > Original in the Options menu.
[6]
Increase playback
speed, without changing pitch. Alternatively, you can use Speed > Increase in the
Options menu.
[7]
Jump to previous bookmark; when the current position in the DAISY title
is located before the first bookmark, this will jump to the last bookmark.
[8]
Define
a new bookmark; you are prompted for the title of the bookmark (see
section ). Audio playback is paused at this point.
[9]
Jump to the next bookmark;
when the current position in the DAISY title is located after the last
bookmark, this will jump to the first bookmark.
[*]
After executing any jump command, like
jumping to the next/previous bookmark, heading, phrase, etc., you can press [*] to
return to the position before that jump. You can do the same by
using Go To > Stored position in the Options menu.
[0]
Jump to a new
position in the book; you are prompted for the position:
[#]
Cycle through the various views for the current DAISY
title
[Select]
Pause/resume audio playback. On a touch screen, this is also available through the
on-screen button named [Key 4].
[Up], [Down]
During audio playback, his opens the Play view
that allows using [Up] or [Down] to select the level of navigation:
[Left], [Right]
During audio playback, these
keys skip backward or forward, according to the level of navigation selected in
Play view. You can also use the Go To > Next/Previous Block commands
in the Options menu to skip through the title. On phones with a
touch screen, these functions are available through the on-screen buttons [Key 3] and
[Key 5].
[Select]
Stop/Start playback; when playback is stopped, you can use cursor navigation of
TALKS commands to read the textual content. Presing [Select] will then continue playback
at the desired location.
[Long Up], [Long Down]
Increase/decrease playback volume; if your phone provides dedicated volume
keys, you can use them instead.
[Long Left], [Long Right]
Backward / forward cueing, sounds like a
tape recorder. Cueing speed can be adjusted (see section ).
2.5.2 The Options menu
2.6 The Bookmarks view
2.7 The Settings dialogue
2.7.1 General settings
2.7.2 Audio settings
2.7.3 Text settings