[Introduction]
Thank you for choosing Le Bavardeur! Le Bavardeur is based on 25 years' experience in the design and development of technical voice aids to compensate for disabilities. It is continually updated in response to users' comments and requests.
Bavardeur is designed to be used with a screen reader, such as the NVDA or JAWS screen reader, in speech or Braille. You must therefore start your screen reader before using Le Bavardeur.
Le Bavardeur has a classic graphical interface made up of menus and dialogue boxes. The dialogue boxes contain objects such as text boxes, lists, buttons, etc. To interact with Le Bavardeur, you will need to use the standard keyboard keys, such as the Alt key to go to the menus, the Tab key to navigate through the dialogue boxes, the Enter key to confirm actions, the Escape key to cancel an action or close a dialogue box, and so on.
To reduce the number of tabs in certain dialog boxes that have a lot of functionality, you will come across action lists. These action lists allow you to select an action to be performed in the dialog box, either using the arrow keys or the first letter of the action name. The action is then triggered by pressing Enter.
The keyboard shortcuts are also the same as in the past, for example Ctrl + O to open, CTRL + W to close, CTRL + C to copy, etc...
The help on using the Bavardeur has been produced without using the keyboard shortcuts.

[Confirmation of actions in Le Bavardeur]
Many actions are confirmed in Le Bavardeur in order to inform the novice user of the change that has been made following the triggering of an action. However, these action confirmations can be repetitive and slow down the use of the Bavardeur for other users.
To disable action confirmations in Le Bavardeur, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the Settings menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Le Bavardeur sub-menu and Enter. Press Tab to go to the Confirm Actions checkbox and press Spacebar to uncheck it. Finally, press Enter to save your choice.

[Reading a document with the scanner]
Le Bavardeur uses Tesseract, OmniPage 16, 17, 18, or FineReader 14 and 15 Optical Character Recognition. The scanner must be switched on and configured before scanning.
Press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the Scanner menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Read with Tesseract or Read with OmniPage or Read with FineReader sub-menu and press Enter. Scanning and recognition of the document begins. At the end of the process, the document text will be inserted into the open document.

[Setting up the scanner to read a document]
Configuring the scanner to read a document is very simple and just involves selecting your scanner. The scanner must be switched on and configured before you make your choice.
Press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the Settings menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Scanner submenu and press Enter. Use the arrow keys to select your scanner and press Enter.

[Drafts]
Drafts, of which there are 10, are documents that are saved automatically. They allow you to write and save texts very easily without using file management, such as texts produced by scanning.
To go to a draft, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the Draft menu. Then press Down Arrow to choose the draft you want to open and press Enter.

[Open a file]
To open a file, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Open submenu and press Enter. Then use the arrow keys to select the file you want to open and press Enter. This dialog box has a list of actions for quickly navigating to folders.
Text, RTF, DOCX, DOC, EPUB, HTML, ODT, ODS files are opened in the text editor.
PDF files are opened either in the PDF viewer or in the text editor. The PDF viewer has a list of actions. This list of actions includes functions for going to the next or previous page of the PDF document, extracting text from the PDF document using Tesseract, OmniPage or FineReader OCR, deleting the PDF document or printing it.
WAV, MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV, MPEG, etc. files are opened in the audio and video player. The audio and video player has buttons that can be used to go backwards or forwards by 5 seconds, or to pause playback. The Next or Previous buttons play the next or previous file. The playback volume can be increased or decreased with F5 or F6. Press F7 to pause or resume playback. You can close the dialogue box by choosing not to stop playback. If this is the case, use F7 to stop playback momentarily. Press F8 to return to the audio and video player.
BMP, PNG, JPEG, JPG, GIF, TIF, WMF, EMF, etc. files are opened with the image viewer, which has a list of actions. This list of actions includes functions for moving to the next or previous image in the folder, extracting text from the image using Tesseract, OmniPage or FineReader OCR, deleting the image or printing it.

[Browsing and listening to an audio book in Daisy format]
To open an audio book in Daisy format, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Open Daisy audio book submenu and press Enter. Then use the arrow keys to select the folder containing the Daisy format audiobook and press Enter. Press Enter or Tab to the OK button and press Enter.

[Browsing an audio book in Daisy format]
You are in the table of contents when the audio book in Daisy format is open. Use the arrow keys to navigate through the table of contents. Press Enter to listen to the item selected in the table of contents. This dialog box contains a list of actions. You'll find functions for going backwards or forwards by 5 seconds during playback, pausing, going to the next or previous title, and opening another audio book in Daisy format. The playback volume can be increased or decreased using F5 or F6. Press F7 to pause or resume playback. You can close the dialog box by choosing not to stop playback of the audio book in Daisy format. Press F8 to return to the audio book.

[Information on the document]
When you are in a document, you can use Tab to see the name of the open file, the number of lines and the position of the cursor in the document.

[Saving a document]
If the document is already associated with a file, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Save submenu and Enter.
If the document is not associated with a file, or if you want to save the document in another file, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Save As submenu and press Enter.
Then choose the folder you want to save it in and press Tab to go to the Name of the file to save. You will find a file name already filled in that corresponds to the first few words of the text. You can change this or press Enter directly to save the document in this file. This dialog box has a list of actions for quickly navigating to folders.

[Export a document as a WAV file]
This feature allows you to save a text document as a WAV file with text-to-speech. Press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Export submenu and press Enter. Use the arrow keys to select the WAV File submenu, then press Enter.
Use the arrow keys to select the text-to-speech that will read the text. Then use the arrow keys to select the voice rate and press Enter.
Use the arrow keys to select the folder in which you want to save the new WAV file and press Tab to go to the Name of the file to be saved. You'll find a file name already filled in, corresponding to the first few words of the text. You can change this or press Enter directly to save the document in this file. This dialog box has a list of actions for quickly navigating to folders.

[Close a document]
To close a document, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Close submenu and Enter. Closing a document always returns it to Draft 1.

[Print a document]
To print a document, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the Print submenu and press Enter. Press Enter to Print or Tab to the print settings you want to change.

[Formatting the document]
To change the style, alignment, font, size and colour of the text, press Alt to go to the File menu and then Right Arrow to go to the Format menu. Then press Down Arrow to select the change you want to make to the selected text or to the text you will write after this change and press Enter.

[File manager: Copy, Cut, Paste, Rename, Delete and Create files and folders]
Press Alt to go to the File menu, then Down Arrow to go to the File Manager submenu and Enter.
The File Manager lets you copy, cut, paste, rename, delete and create files and folders. These functions can be found in the action list and have keyboard shortcuts. The Windows File Manager context menu is also available. You can select multiple files and folders using the Spacebar.
Note that opening files in the audio and video player and in the image viewer does not close the file manager, unlike the Open function in the File menu. You can therefore return to the file manager at any time by closing the audio and video player or the image viewer without going back to the File menu.

[Wikipedia]
You have quick and easy access to the Wikipedia encyclopaedia. Press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the QuickWeb menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Encyclopaedia submenu, press Enter to go to the Wikipedia submenu, and press Enter again.
Enter the text you want to search for in Wikipedia and press Enter to start the article search. Then use the arrow keys to select the article you wish to consult and press Enter.
The full article will now be displayed. Tab to the Titles button to navigate within the article. There is also a Save button, which lets you save the article in a new file.

[Wiktionary]
You have quick and easy access to the Wiktionary dictionary. Press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the QuickWeb menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Dictionary submenu, press Enter to go to the Wiktionary submenu, and press Enter again.
Enter the text you want to search for in Wiktionary and press Enter to start the word search. Then use the arrow keys to select the word you want to look up and press Enter.
The definition of the word will now be displayed. Tab to the Titles button to navigate within the definition. There is also a Save button that lets you save the definition in a new file.

[Language of the Bavardeur]
The Bavardeur can be used in French, English or Spanish. To change the language of the Bavardeur, press Alt to go to the File menu and then Right Arrow to go to the Settings menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Languages submenu and press Enter. Then press Down Arrow to select the desired language and press Enter.

[Bavardeur serial number]
To find out or copy the Bavardeur's serial number, press Alt to go to the File menu, then Right Arrow to go to the Help menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Serial number Le Bavardeur sub-menu, then press Enter. Finally, press Tab to go to the Copy button and press Enter.

[Bavardeur licence file]
To import the licence file into Le Bavardeur, press Alt to go to the File menu and then Right Arrow to go to the Help menu. Then press Down Arrow to go to the Import licence file submenu and press Enter. Finally, use the arrow keys to select the licence file and press Enter. This dialog box has a list of actions for quickly navigating to folders.