          Keynote Gold VoiceCard Driver Version 2.06 Release
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New Features, Known Bugs, and Bug Fixes.
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These are the major new features of the Version 2 VoiceCard Driver.
  - Less base memory required
  - Multilingual operation (in multilingual versions only)
  - Windows compatible
  - Now supports VoiceCard removal and insertion after the driver has been
    loaded. (Some Card Services don't support this feature, see below.)
  - Now supports 'resume mode' on many Laptop computers. (Some Card Services
    don't support this feature, see below.)

The following bugs in Version 1.x have been fixed in Version 2.
  - No longer causes loss of some keyboard 'Key Up' scan codes
  - Various 'General Protection Faults' fixed

The following features and bug fixes have been added since Version 2.00.
  - v2.01: fixed failure to speak some letters and words in SoundProof and 
    MasterTouch, in all languages except English.
  - v2.02: now loads with (recent versions of) Databook CardTalk Card and 
    Socket Services drivers, as used for example in TwinHead notebook 
    computers.
  - v2.03 Dutch language added to multilingual version.
  - v2.04 Improvements in several langauges. Fixed various oddities in
    the pronunciation of numbers and abbreviations. Fixed a delay
    in speaking in all languages except Dutch.
    v2.04 Added the Keynote SSIL driver to the distribution disk.
  - v2.05 CE-compliant release.
  - v2.06 All VoiceCard drivers are now Multilingual.


Keynote GOLD SSIL Driver
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The Keynote GOLD SSIL Driver is in a directory \KEYNOTE on this disk.

To use the VoiceCard with an SSIL application such as "An Open Book"

   - select KEYNOTE as the synthesizer option in the install progam, 
   - If your SSIL driver disk does not contain the Keynote SSIL driver
     file KEYNOTE.DLL, use this disk to load the Keynote SSIL driver.

Full instructions are in the read.me file in the \KEYNOTE directory on
this disk.

Running Windows and memory managers with the VoiceCard
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Some systems may have problems when running Windows(tm) or using
some memory managers such as 386Max or QEMM with the Keynote GOLD VoiceCard.
The nature of the problems depend on the exact details of the hardware
in your computer.

If your machine seems to "hang" unexpectedly when the VoiceCard is running,
or if the VoiceCard does not run in your machine, you should add the 
following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, before the VoiceCard driver is 
loaded.


SET DOS16M=D A20


Resume Mode, and Card removal and insertion.
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Most versions of Card Services software that support resume mode, do so by
generating 'Card Inserted' and 'Card Removed' events when the Computer is
switched on and off. This version of the VoiceCard driver supports these
'Card Inserted' and 'Card Removed' events, and so will work in 'resume
mode'. However some versions of CardServices fail to handle these events
correctly, and this can cause the computer to 'lock up' or 'crash' when
these events occur.

The VoiceCard driver handling of 'Card Insert' and 'Card Removal' has been
verifed to work with the following Card Services:

  1. SystemSoft Card Services 2.1 Version 2.05
     Copyright 1993 SystemSoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

  2. SystemSoft Card Services 2.01 Version 4.15
     Copyright 1993 SystemSoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

  3. DOS Card Services Driver, Version 1.12
     PCMCIA Card Services Release 2.00
     Copyright 1993 IBM Corp.

      
The VoiceCard driver 'Card Insert' and 'Card Removal' has been found to have
problems with the following Card Services:

  1. PhoenixCARD Manager Plus Version 3.00
     Phoenix PCMCIA Card Services Version 1.00
     Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
     Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Toshiba Corporation
     All Rights Reserved
     Card Services Release: 2.10

     To make the VoiceCard driver handle 'Insertion' and 'Removal' with
     these Card Services you MUST use the following setup.
       Load CNFIGNAM.EXE in CONFIG.SYS
       Load PCMSS.EXE    in CONFIG.SYS
       Load PCMCS.EXE    in CONFIG.SYS
       Load POWER.EXE    in CONFIG.SYS (if you want resume to work)
     Do NOT load any other Card Services Device drivers. If any other Card
     Services device drivers are loaded the computer will crash whenever the
     VoiceCard is inserted or removed.
