Shannon, it sounds to me like you're not just losing speech, but locking up completely, in which case only a reset will do it. Don't fret about resets; some of us do them frequently.
Susie Stageberg Project ASSIST with Windows Iowa Department for the Blind (515) 281-1351 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shannon A. Reece Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:24 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] losing speech on the VN mPower BT Hello all. ON occasion, while I am brailling away, the speech will suddenly stop and nothing I can think of to do besides hitting the reset button will bring it back. I've only had the mPower BT for 9 days and in the early days it was probably the fault of my fingering--getting used to the keys etc., which caused me to do something to stop speech. But last night, after days of not having this problem, I was reading backwards through a sentence in the book reader program, a word at a time, moving rapidly but not excessively so through the words when the speech stopped again. I tried to exit book readerg with space plus e but no speech. The only way to get it back was to hit the reset button. I don't like doing this because it worries me. I poked around through the index of the user's guide to see if there were any topics on speech--shutting it off--getting it started again etc., but I found nothing that sounded right. Is there a key combination that I could press on the mPower when speech stops to make it speak again, aside from the reset button? Any help is much appreciated and thanks to all in advance. Shannon A. Reece ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
