This manual is adapted for the Blind from the manufacturer's actual manual.
We have inserted Headings to improve ease of navigationTo promote a better understanding I will call the large 4-way button between the
control buttons the Arrow Key because it can move up-down and left-right.
There are two buttons on either side of this button, one on top of the
other. These are left: top, is the \"Okay\" button and under that is the
\"Talk\" key. Right of the Arrow Key is \"Top\", \"Clear\", and under that is the
\"End\" button. The long button just over the Arrow Key is the \"Speaker\"
button. Just under the Arrow Key is the start of the \"Calling\" buttons.
They are from left to right and top to bottom, 1- 2- 3, 4- 5- 6, 7- 8- 9,
Star- Zero and Pound.
On the left lower corner of the phone is the \"Power\" button. Press and
hold this for 2 seconds to turn \"On\" the phone and press and hold this
same button again for 2 seconds again to turn the phone \"Off\".
I will assume here you have not changed the factory set \"Default\" of \"Call- history\". When your phone is in \"Stand-by mode\" and you press the \"End\" key\", it will automatically go to \"Call-history\". This is the \"Default\". I will use this as the starting point for my descriptions on how to use the features.
There are 2 buttons on the left-hand side of the phone. These are \"Up/Down\" buttons. When the phone is \"On\" and in \"Stand-by\" mode, the \"Up/Down\" buttons become the \"Volume\" buttons for the ringer. The \"Up\" button raises the ringer volume and the \"Down\" button lowers the ringer volume. From the highest setting to the lowest setting these ranges are, \"High\", \"Medium-high\", \"Medium-low\", \"Low\", \"Off\", and \"Vibrate\". When your phone is in \"Talk\" mode these buttons become the \"Volume up\" and \"Volume down\" buttons respectively. Above the \"Up/Down\" buttons is a jack for a headset/microphone connection. You need to pry this up with your fingernail to access the jack. Headsets are sold separately. It is a good idea to buy one as it allows hands-free operation. When a headset microphone is connected to the 47700, the phone can be placed in a shirt pocket leaving your hands free.
The \"Key Guard\" locks the dialing keys or temporarily disables them. This means that pressing the dialing keys has no effect. If your phone is in your pocket or purse it can\'t accidentally dial out if you have the one touch answer turned \"On\". I think this is a poor choice for the blind and so will not describe how to use it here. When a call comes in, \"KeyGuard\" unlocks and you can answer your phone by pressing the \"Talk\" button. When you hang up, \"Key Guard\" again locks the keypad.
To Use The Key Guard:
1. Press the \"End\" key once.
2. Press the \"Up Arrow\" key once.
3. Press the \"Okay\" key once.
Your phone should now be on \"Key Guard\". To test this, press any of the
keys on your phone. You should not hear any \"Beeps\" or \"Touch tone\"
sounds.
"Voice Dial\" lets you make phone calls to any of your friends, family, or co-workers by saying their name. You can store up to 30 names and numbers in the 4700\'s memory for later recall. \"Voice Dialing\" numbers are programmed with your own voice and the dialing keypad numbers.
Note: \"Voice Dialing doesn't work well in noisy rooms or with a radio or TV playing loudly nearby. A good headset/microphone connected to your phone can help improve that problem.
1. Press the \"End\" key once.You will hear a longer \"beep\" and a female voice will say: \"Please say the name.\" Say the name of the person or some other identifying word you'll remember. If you were going to program your work number under this \"Voice Dialed\" number you might use the word \"Work.\" If you were going to use this to call your home, you might say the word \"Home.\" Say the word in a normal tone of voice. You don't have to speak loudly, just say it like you normally would. You will then hear your own voice say the word you just said followed by the prompt to \"Please say the name again.\"
Repeat the word again.
You will then be prompted to enter the number using the \"Number Keys\".
It is a good idea to also program the number with the 3-digit area code too. The
reason for this is if you only use the 7-digit local number, and you are out of town,
you won't be able to \"Voice Dial\" that number from that point, because as far
as your phone is concerned, you\'re still at home.
Note: when you\'re programming in the number, do not use the number \"1\" first,
just dial the 3-digit area code followed by the 7-digit number.
The last step is
to press the \"Okay\" key three times. You will hear a long \"beep\" followed by
a voice saying, \"Recorded.\"
There are two ways to \"Voice Dial\" a number. I will assume you have already programmed in one or more names and numbers.
Note: if no names and numbers are programmed into your phone, \"Voice Dialing\" is disabled until your first number has been programmed.If you\'re using the \"Talk\" button, hold the phone up to your ear, or if your using the \"Speakerphone\", just listen. You will hear either through the phone\'s ear piece or through the speakerphone speaker which is located on the back of the phone near it\'s top, \"Please say the name.\" Just say the name you programmed to associate with that number. For example, you might have programmed the word \"Work\" to call your place of employment. Just say \"Work.\" If the phone finds a match in its memory you will hear the voice say \"Calling\" and you will hear a long beep. If it\'s unsure, the voice will say, \"Please repeat the name.\" Say the name again. If the phone does not find a match you will hear no announcement and the phone stays silent.
It could be that it\'s too noisy in the room or you didn't say the name in the same tone of voice you used to program it with.
Note: the phone is keyed to the person who programmed the name in so you can't have your dog program your phone. You can either press the \"Speakerphone\" key or \"Talk\" button and try again or manually dial the number.
Because the 4700 can hold up to 30 names and telephone numbers in it\'s Memory, it is easy to forget the word you used for any given number.
Sure it\'s easy to remember frequently used numbers like your work number or your mother\'s number, you might have programmed in \"Mom\" for her number, or \"Pizza\" for your favorite pizza parlor. What about that guy who sold you that record collection you just had to have or those numbers you've just plain old forgotten about in your phone\'s memory. How about that old girl friend you forgot about? Your names and numbers stay in your phone until you delete them. Even if the battery is removed they\'re still there.
The first name you programmed in will play through the \"Speakerphone\" speaker.
8. Use the \"Volume Up\" or \"Down\" buttons to adjust the volume.Each time you press the \"Okay\" button the next name will be announced until you get to the bottom of the list. To go backwards through the list press the \"Down Arrow key\" once and press the \"Okay\" key to move backward through the list. If you want to delete a name, when on the name you want, press the \"Up arrow key\" once. This should \"highlight\" the name you want.
To test to see that it is correct, press the \"okay key\" several times. Each press of the \"Okay key\" should repeat the name every time it is pressed.
Next, \"Down arrow\" to the bottom of the list. You will know when your there when you hear no more beeps. This is the \"Delete key\" Press \"The Okay Key\" to delete the entry. This will then bring up a \"yes or no\" screen. The default is \"the yes key\" but to check that press \"the up arrow key.\" If you hear no beep you are on the \"yes key.\" If you hear a beep, you were on \"the no key.\" In other words, \"Up arrow\" for Yes, and \"Down arrow\" for no.
Press \"the Okay key.Although \"Caller ID\" is a common feature of cell phones it is useless to the blind. No cell phone on the market at this time can announce \"Caller ID\" messages. The 4700 does come closest by letting you set up your phone to announce the name of any of the thirty names you've programmed into the \"Voice Dialer\'s\" memory. The name will be spoken in your own voice through the \"Speakerphone\".
Note: when this option is turned \"on\", the ringer will only play through the \"Speakerphone speaker\". There is only the one ringer type. The normal ring will be disabled. Whenever a call comes in, you will hear the ring and the voice say \"Call From\" and your own voice will say the name of the person or place . If there is no name associated with that number, you will hear the ring and the voice say \"Incoming Call.\" The sound of this feature is quite good and sounds like a regular home phone.
Note: the \"Volume\" of this feature can be adjusted when the phone is receiving a call by using the \"Up/ Down\" buttons on the left side of the phone.
The Sanyo SEP-4700 can also \"Voice-prompt\" you when somebody has left you a \"Voice message\" in your \"Voice-mail\" box. I was disappointed with this feature.
The normal \"Default\" when you have a message in your \"Voice message\" box is to make a \"beeping sound\" much like a pocket pager. When the phone is set to \"Voice-prompt\", the voice just says \"Message\". It doesn't beep or any other noise. It will of course repeat again several minutes later, but if you missed it the first time you'll probably miss it again.
The \"Default\" double beep is loud enough and repeats several times in rapid order. I like this \"Default\" setting better than the voice one-word of saying \"Message.\" The \"Default\" double-beep beeps about five times or about ten seconds.
The \"Default\" is \"Off\". If you want it \"On\", press the \"Down Arrow\" key once and press \"Okay\".
The 4700 can play back \"Voice messages\" and \"Memos\". Recording a \"Voice memo\" is easy. Press and hold down the \"Speakerphone\" key for about two seconds. When you hear the \"beep\", begin speaking.
"Memos\" can be up to 30 seconds. The longer the message is, the fewer messages the phone can store. When you run out of room in the memory the phone will not record any more messages and the phone announces \"Messages full.\" This feature is handy when you haven't got a Braille Writer in your back pocket or your dog made off with your Braille paper.
The choices here are the \"Default\", \"Call Messages\", and \"Arrow Down\" one time for call Speakerphone\" messages.
Note: choosing either one of these two choices will use your cell minutes. Another way you can save your cell minutes is to turn your cell phone \"Off\" first, and call your own cell number. When you hear your own voice say your greeting press the \"Star\" key to interrupt. You will be prompted for your pass code. Enter that and follow the prompts to Playback\" new and previous messages.
What? You say you haven't set up your \"Voice mailbox\" yet? You must be a new user.
Not to worry, when you go to check your \"Voice Message\"
box for the first time you will be prompted on how to set it up.
Note: if this is your first time you'll have to set it up with your cell phone in the above manner. After that has been done you can change personal options from your home phone such as turning \"Off\" the pager feature.
Callers can leave you either a \"Voice message\" which is good for the blind or leave you a \"Page\" which sucks big time because you can't read the pager number they put in and you'll go nuts trying to guess who that was. \"Just don't let it be my bookie, God!\"
The Sanyo 4700 can record those \"Memos\" we talked about. This is great to jot down a phone number when you haven't got a Brailler handy.
1. Press and hold down the \"Speakerphone\" key for 2 seconds. When you hear the \"beep\" begin talking.
2. Press the \"End\" key to stop recording.Here the \"Default\" is \"all messages\", or each separate message is listed by date. Pressing the \"Okay\" key will let you hear all the \"Memos\". You can then \"Arrow Up\" to replay them or the very bottom is the first message you recorded.
The newest \"Memo\" is at the top of the list. To get to this press the \"Up Arrow\" until you hear no more \"beeps\" and of course pressing the \"Down Arrow\" key until you hear no more \"beeps\" puts you on the last message.
Here the \"Default\" is \"Yes\". If you want to delete all your memos press \"Okay\". If you do not, press the \"Down Arrow\" key one time to \"No\" and press \"Okay\".
Note: You can just press the \"End\" key or the \"Clear\" key. When you\'re in the \"Playback Mode\" of the \"Memo Screen\", as you \"Arrow Down\" or \"Up\" through the list of memos, pressing the \"Clear\" key will delete one message at a time but you will then be taken to the \"Yes\" or \"No\" screen again. I like to just use the \"Delete All Messages\" because this is probably best used as a temporary storage place until you get home or to the office to write down your \"Memo\" notes in another medium or format.
If your using your 4700 without \"Voice prompting\" and are using it in the normal way you can change the \"Ringer\". There are 13 choices of different \"Ringing sounds\" including \"Musical\" tunes and sounds plus \"Vibrate\" and \"Off\". You can \"Down\" and \"Up Arrow\" through the list.
The last two settings as you \"Arrow Down\" through the list of ringer types
are \"Vibrate\" and \"No Sound\".
You will of course hear nothing as you \"Down Arrow\" to these last two
choices. \"Vibrate\" works fine for the blind and is useful when you don't
want to miss a call but do not want your phone to interrupt others privacy
such as in church or a meeting. You can go back to sounds at any time
and change to something else any time you want.
You can now use the \"Down and Up Arrow\" keys to move through the choices of ringer types. Remember, as you \"Down Arrow\" through the choices, the first silent one will be \"Vibrate\" and the last one is \"Off\".
You will be at \"Off\" when you \"Down Arrow\" through the list of sounds and you hear no more \"beeps\". The same is true as you \"Arrow Up\" through the list too. Your at \"Sound one\" when you hear no more beeps as you press the \"Up Arrow\" key.
When you have found the sound you want press \"Okay\". The next time you go to this menu, the choice you made the last time will be the new \"Default\" sound. Even if your battery goes dead and stays that way for some time the \"Default\" will remain until you change it again.
Note: in this \"Ringer-types\" screen you can also use the \"Up/Down\" buttons as well but the beeps continue even when you press the \"Down\" or \"Up\" keys to their ends. Even if you have your 4700 set to \"Voice prompt\", you can still use the \"Vibrate\" setting. When you choose another sound for the ringer, the \"Voice prompting\" will still have priority.
I have made every effort to make sure the above information is correct. These are the features I have found to be useful to the blind.
Features such as the \"Address Book\" where you can enter in text, the names and numbers for dozens of contacts as well as multiple phone, cell, and fax numbers, I find isn't of any use to the blind because it\'s all \"visual\". For example, \"Special\", is a calculator and two games. These are useless for us so they were omitted here along with the \"Default Call History.\" If you have tried any of the above functions and find that my instructions were incorrect please let me know. If you have found any other features to be useful to the blind and wish to use the same method of description as is used in this document and would like to have it included please let me know about that too.
Julie Dawson, AAKA Cherpink or LafayetteUpdated on ... December 09, 2006