Reference - Operating SpeakOn:
Many features in SpeakOn should work without requiring you to modify any settings following an installation. However, you may want to configure SpeakOn for your requirements.
All SpeakOn's common user settings can be done from within SpeakOn itself, from its Main menu by launching the appropriate settings tasks; these are explained in detail in the Tutorial for each of SpeakOn's applications.
Alternatively, these common settings are all located under a single folder in:
C:\SpeakOn_User_Settings
This folder in turn contains sub-folders for each application and the configuration files are self-explanatory with commented instructions for modification in each file. The above folder contains the following two types of settings:
1. Login information for the following three services: the Talking Newspapers Association of the UK (TNAUK), the Seeing Ear library and Last.FM. You will need to specify a username and password for the above services only once.
2. Change of visibility of media either in the Finder's library or the Listener's player. These are explained in detail in the relevant settings for each application in the Tutorial section. You will find that individual files contain instructions. All these configuration files operate in the same way. Insert the character '*' (an asterisk without apostrophes) at the beginning of the line you want to hide. For example:
* This is a line you want to hide.
Other less common settings are located in the relevant 'config' folders under:
C:\SpeakOn\app
For example, modifying SpeakOn default folder locations. You will probably never need to do this but in case you do, these are specified in the relevant Media Directories' pages in: Reference - SpeakOn applications - Additional Information > Media Centre application > Media Directories
General notes on how to modify settings manually.
All these settings are located in simple text files with the file extension '.txt'. Modify these files using a text editor such as Notepad only. Do not use a word processor to modify these files as you can make them unreadable.
Most of these text files contain an attribute - value pairs separated by the '=' character. For example:
directory=C:/my directory
You need to locate the relevant attribute as described in the documentation or comments in the files themselves and modify the value. For example, if your directory above is C:/music, modify the line above to:
directory=C:/music
Note that all directories must be specified with the forward slash '/' and not the back slash '\'.
These files can include comments. To specify a line as a comment simply type the character '#' (a hash sign without apostrophes) at the beginning of the line. For example:
# This is a comment
Regardless of the method of modifying settings, your settings should not normally be affected by an installation upgrade. In other words, you don't have to modify these settings.