Sequencher 4.8 User Manual--PC - Bioinformatics and Biological ...

Voice verification
Sequencher provides two forms of audio feedback to help you maintain the quality of
data input when you are entering information manually from the keyboard. You can have
Sequencher announce each base as you type it in. You can have the computer “read” the
sequence aloud back to you while you look at the original source of the data. Sequencher
stores the sounds that it uses in a sound file stored in your Sequencher folder.
Selecting a voice file
First, make sure your computer sound system is enabled and that the volume is not set on
mute.
Then, go to the Sequence menu and choose Speech. Then go to the submenu Select
Voice File….You will not get any audio feedback until the Select Voice file is loaded.
Identifying a speaker
You’ll probably be familiar with the voices Gene Codes has persuaded to provide audio
for you! To hear whose voice is being used, go to the Sequence menu and choose
Speech and then the Identify Speaker subcommand. You can only select this command
if a sound file was selected previously.
Audible keystrokes
Any meaningful keystroke you type into a Sequence Editor will be spoken aloud if
you go to the Speech command in the Sequence menu and select the Say Sequence
Keystrokes submenu. That is, if you press the “A” key, a voice will say “A,” but if you
press the shift key, you will not hear any voice.
Read sequence selection
To check the sequence you have entered into the Sequence Editor, first select the bases
you want the computer to read to you. Then go to the Sequence menu, click on Speech
and then the Read Sequence Selection submenu.
Note: You must place the cursor somewhere in the small window that appears above the
sequence as in Figure 8-15. To pause the reading, just move the cursor out of the window.
Figure 8-15 Speak selection cursor and instruction menu
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