ZYGO Polyana 4 with Persona
ZYGO Industries, Inc.
PO Box 1008, Portland, OR 97207-1008
U.S.A. /Canada: (800) 234-6006
TEL: (503) 684-6006 FAX: (503) 684-6011
Web site: www.zygo-usa.com
E-mail: zygo@zygo-usa.com
Abbreviation Expansion (Ab/Ex )
In addition to the Phrase Bank, you can store short cuts to phrases you use often. Persona can learn
an acronym and expand it out to a phrase for you. For example, you might use "
cc
" to expand out to
"May I please have a
c
up of
c
offee?", or "
mn
" to expand out to "
M
y
n
ame is Doug."
Type out the long message on the screen. Highlight the message by dragging your finger on the
screen. Select the menu item Edit, AbEx. The cursor should be in the Abbreviation: box waiting for
you to type in a two or three character acronym, and the phrase you typed out should be in the
Expansion: box. Type in the abbreviation and press the Accept button to save the new
abbreviation/expansion.
After you Close the AbEx dialogue box, try out your new AbEx. Clear the screen by selecting
<ctrl>
+
A
to highlight all the text on the screen, then type the new acronym followed by the spacebar.
Speech Exception (Sp/Ex)
Not all the words we spell sound the way we would want to say them. You can teach Persona to
speak words phonetically so that they sound better to you.
Type out the word the way it should be spelled. Highlight the word. Select the menu item Edit, SpEx.
The cursor should be in the Correct Spelling: box. Type out the word as it should be spelled if it isn't
there already. Move the cursor to the Correct Pronunciation: box and type out a phonetic way of
speaking the desired word. You can hear it by pressing the Test button. Once it sounds the way you
want it, press the Accept button, then Close the box.
Try it. Change the word "latte" from sounding like "lat", to pronounce it as "lottay".
ISpk (Instant Speak)
Press the ISpk button to enter Instant Speak. This is a second conversation window. When in ISpk,
type in the message. Phrase will speak after punctuation. Phrase will erase after next key press (only
one phrase at a time is allowed here, versus long monologues in the main text window). Close this
window and you are back to the main text window where you left off.
Stored Conversations
You can prepare a dialogue for a conversation you are going to have and save it for later. Clear the
screen. Type out your side of a future conversation. Then go into the File menu and Save the script as
a file.
For example, if you know that you are going to see your best friend, type out greetings for when they
arrive, questions about them, stories about what is going on with you, or whatever you want to talk
about. Save the entire conversation as "Visit with Marie". Then when Marie arrives, go into the File
menu, Open the Marie file, and speak the sentences you have prepared. You can always type more
during the conversation, or use ISpk to talk about things you hadn't saved yet.
