Johnny Tools Version 2024 http://johnnytools.awardspace.us/ Copyright (C) Johnny LUI, all rights reserved. Contents -Brief Description -System Requirements -Instructions -How to use -Hotkeys -Contact Information ---------- Brief Description Johnny Tools is free software designed to enhance the functionality of the two most popular screen reader software, JAWS and NVDA. With expandability, flexibility, and powerful features, Johnny Tools offers the following advantages: JAWS 1. Support for Google Translate; 2. Character information support; 3. Adds Lookup Sources to Research It. 4. Chinese language support for RealSpeak Solo Direct, Vocalizer Expressive, SAPI 5X, SAPI 5X 64, and Microsoft Mobile voices; 5. Instant Braille Translation Editing supports; 6. Super Chinese Cantonese Braille support; 7. Provides festival alerts; 8. Latest Hong Kong weather report; 9. Google speech recognition support; 10. Playlist support; 11. Optimized JAWS factory settings; 12. Yahoo dictionary support; NVDA 1. Character information support; 2. Playlist support; 3. Latest Hong Kong weather report; 4. Google Translate support; 5. Yahoo dictionary support; 6. Today's lunar calendar lookup; The above features significantly enhance the functionality of JAWS and NVDA, making them more powerful and effective screen reader software. Enhanced features and new highlights of Johnny Tools: JAWS Google Translate - Supports translations in over 104 different languages; - Can announce translation results from the clipboard in real-time; - Can paste translated text from the clipboard at any time; - Displays detailed translation results on the Results Viewer; - Translation results can be read out by tapping on them on the Results Viewer; Character Information - Says the Character Description phonetically at the cursor; - Displays detailed Character Information on the Virtual Viewer, including font, font size, strokes, cangjie, color, Mandarin Pinyin, and Chinese-English character phonetic descriptions; - Character Dictionary can be added or modified for character phonetic spelling; - Can distinguish between upper and lower case English letters and traditional/simplified Chinese characters; Research It The following Research It lookup sources have been added to Johnny Tools: - Blind Organization News - Headline Daily - Hong Kong Weather Forecast - Local Weather Forecast and 9-day Weather Forecast - Radio Television Hong Kong Instant News, Asia, International news, Finance News and Sports news; - Radio Television Hong Kong programme highlights RealSpeak Solo Direct, Vocalizer Expressive, SAPI 5X, SAPI 5X 64 and Microsoft Mobile Voices support for Chinese - Supports trilingual languages, Chinese punctuation and includes multiple unknown Chinese characters; Braille Instant Translation Editing support The Braille Instant Translation Editing (BRITE) supports the following features and actions: - The only software in the world that supports this function; - Easy to use, quick saving, editing, and added several hotkeys for this application; - Can display Braille on the first cell of the Braille display machine; Super Chinese character Cantonese Braille - Supports up to 30,000 Chinese character Cantonese Braille Unicode character table; Festival alert - When JAWS screen reader software is opened, it will automatically announce selected festival alert messages; - Can add, change or delete festival alert messages; Hong Kong Weather Report - Announces information on the Hong Kong weather report and weather forecast, including current Hong Kong weather information such as temperature, humidity, UV Index, and detailed weather forecast for Hong Kong; Google Speech Recognition - Speech Recognition among languages supports up to 36 languages; - Can instantly speech recognition the text results in the clipboard; - Shows multiple results on the Virtual Viewer; Playlist - Plays RTHK radios, TVs, Hourly News summary and radio drama; - Plays some online radio channels; Optimized JAWS factory settings - Optimizes the JAWS factory shared settings so that all users can use Johnny Tools; Yahoo Dictionary - Added the function of searching Yahoo English-English, English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries; NVDA Character Information - Announces the current word in the text where the review cursor is positioned; - Presents Character Information in browse mode, including font, strokes, Cangjie, Mandarin Pinyin, and character phonetic descriptions; - Can distinguish between upper and lower case English letters and traditional/simplified Chinese characters; Playlist - Supports playing RTHK radios and online radio stations; Hong Kong weather report - Announces the Hong Kong Weather information and Hong Kong Weather Forecast; Google Translate - Supports translations in over 104 different languages; - Can read out translation results from the clipboard in real-time; - Can paste translated text from the clipboard at any time; Yahoo Dictionary - Supports querying the Yahoo English-Chinese dictionary; Today's lunar calendar lookup - Can check today's lunar calendar, including today's date, lunar date, and auspicious and inauspicious things to do today; System Requirements Supported Operating Systems (64-bit): Windows® 11, Windows 10, Windows Server® 2022, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2016. Required Software and Hardware: JAWS for Windows version 14 or higher recommended. NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) latest version. Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from Oracle version 1.7 or higher is recommended. Microphone Instructions To install Johnny Tools: 1. Download the setup file and save it to your hard drive; 2. Use the Tab key to navigate to the JohnnyTools Setup (.exe) program file on your hard drive and press Enter to start the setup process; 3. Follow the prompts to select your preferred installation language; 4. A Welcome Screen will appear at the beginning of the setup process. Use the Tab key to navigate to the Next button and press Enter to continue. 5. Read and agree to the License Agreement to continue with the installation. 6. Select the screen reader software needed to install the script and follow the prompts to complete the installation. 7. Once the installation is complete, restart the screen reader software for the changes to take effect; To remove Johnny Tools: 1. Use the Windows key to open the Start menu and select Control Panel; 2. Select Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features; 3. In the list of currently installed programs, use the arrow keys to navigate to Johnny Tools and select Remove or Add/Remove. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program; 4. Use the Tab key to navigate to the Yes or OK button and press Enter to confirm that you want to remove the program. How to use JAWS (Select Google translation languages) 1. Press Control + Alt + S to select translation languages; 2. Select a Source Language. Press OK button; 3. Select a Target Language. Press OK button; (Google Translate) 1. Select the text you want to translate into another language and press Control + Alt + T; 2. The translated text will be spoken, saved to the clipboard, and displayed on the screen momentarily; 3. Press Control + Alt + TT, and the translated text will be displayed in detail in the Results Viewer on the screen; 4. Press the Enter key on the translation result link to listen to it in the Results Viewer on the screen. (Character Information) 1. Press Control + Alt + F to hear the Chinese/English character's phonetic pronunciation at the active cursor; 2. Press twice quickly to view the font style name, point size, strokes, cangjie, Mandarin Pinyin, foreground and background color, and character phonetic descriptions, etc., in the Virtual Viewer. Press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer; (Character Dictionary) 1. Click the Start button, go to All Programs, click Johnny Tools, and then click Character Dictionary; 2. Once the Character Dictionary is open, you can add or modify character phonetic spellings; 3. If you make any modifications, press Ctrl + S to save and then press Alt + F4 to exit the Character Dictionary; (Research It) For more information, please refer to the Research It section on the JAWS version 11 website: http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/JAWS11-whats-new.asp (Braille Instant Translation Editing) 1. Check the BRITE Help menu for guidance; (Super Chinese character Cantonese Braille) 1. To display Cantonese Braille codes on Braille displays; (Festival alert) 1. Upon starting, JAWS will automatically announce the selected Festival Alert message; 2. Open the Johnny Tools Settings Center to add or change Festival Alert messages; 3. If you make any changes, press Ctrl + S to save and then press Alt + F4 to exit the Johnny Tools Settings Center; (Hong Kong weather report) 1. Press Shift + Control + Insert + F12 to announce the Hong Kong Current Weather information; 2. Press twice quickly to announce the Hong Kong Weather Forecast information; (Select Google speech Recognition language) 1. Press Control + Alt + F5 to select the speech language; 2. Select the desired language and press the OK button; (Google Speech Recognition1) 1. Press Control + Alt + F6 to start dictation; 2. Begin speaking in the selected language; 3. The screen reader will announce the transcription result from the clipboard; (Google Speech Recognition2) 1. Press Control + Alt + F7 to start dictation; 2. Begin speaking in the selected language; 3. JAWS will show the transcription results in the Virtual Viewer; (Playlist) 1. Press INSERT + SPACEBAR and then [ key to select an RTHK radio channel; 2. Once a channel is selected, press the OK button to exit; 3. Press INSERT + SPACEBAR and then ] key to select an online radio channel. Select a channel and press the OK button to exit; (Yahoo Dictionary) 1. Select a word (in Chinese or English) and press Control + Alt + D or Shift + F1; 2. The Yahoo Dictionary results will be displayed in the Virtual Viewer. Press Escape to close the Virtual Viewer; NVDA (Character Information) 1. Select a character and press Control + Alt + F to announce the current character information. Pressing twice will show further character information in the browse mode; (Playlist) 1. Press Insert + N to open the NVDA menu, go to the Johnny Tools sub-menu, and open the RTHK Playlist sub-menu or select an Online Radio Playlist sub-menu; 2. Press Enter to select a radio channel menu item; (Hong Kong weather report) 1. Press Control + Insert + F12 to announce the Hong Kong Weather Forecast information; 2. Press Shift + Insert + F12 to announce the Hong Kong Current Weather information. Pressing twice will report the Hong Kong Weather Forecast information; (Select Google translation languages) 1. Press Control + Alt + S to select the translation languages; 2. Select a Source Language and a Target Language, then press the OK button; (Google translate) 1. Select the text and then press Control + Alt + T; 2. The translated text will be spoken from the clipboard momentarily; 3. Pressing twice will listen to the translated result; (Yahoo Dictionary) 1. Select the text and press Control + Alt + D; 2. The Yahoo Dictionary results will be shown in the browse mode. Press Escape to close the browse mode; (Today's lunar calendar lookup) 1. Press Control + Alt + F12 to show the Today's lunar calendar lookup in the browse mode. Press Escape to close the browse mode; Hotkeys JAWS Hotkey: Control + Alt + D / Shift + F1 Description: Inquire Yahoo Dictionary (English to English Dictionary, English to Chinese Dictionary and Chinese to English Dictionary); Hotkey: Control + Alt + S Description: Select Google translate languages. Hotkey: Control + Alt + T Description: Says translated result from the clipboard. Press twice quickly for translated results to be displayed in the Results Viewer. Hotkey: Control + Alt + F Description: Says the Character Information. Press twice quickly for the Character Information to be displayed in the Virtual Viewer. Hotkey: Control + Alt + F5 Description: Select a speech language Hotkey: Control + Alt + F6 Description: Google Speech Recognition - says transcription result from the clipboard. Hotkey: Control + Alt + F7 Description: Google Speech Recognition - shows more transcription results in the Virtual Viewer. Hotkey: INSERT + SPACEBAR, R Description: Research It dialog box presents a list of locations where you can look up the selected word or phrase. Displays lookup sources for Research It. For more details about Research It, please visit the JAWS website: http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/JAWS11-whats-new.asp Hotkey: INSERT + SPACEBAR, [ Description: Select a radio channel, TV, hourly news summary, or radio drama channel. Hotkey: INSERT + SPACEBAR,] Description: Select an Online radio channel; Hotkey: Shift + Control + Insert + F12 Description: Announce the Hong Kong Current Weather information. Press twice quickly to Says Hong Kong Weather Forecast information; Hotkey: Control + Shift + J Description: about Johnny Tools Braille Instant Translation Editing (BRITE) Hotkey: Control + L Description: Left Justify Hotkey: Control + E Description: Center Text Hotkey: Control + R Description: Right Justify Hotkey: F12 Description: Name and save a document Hot key: Control + Shift + F Description: Font setting Hotkey: Control + Shift + P Description: Paragraph Properties Hotkey: Alt + Shift + P Description: Say page number Hotkey: Insert + Delete Description: Say row and column Hotkey: Alt + Shift + B Description: Say Braille mode Hotkey: Alt + Shift + W Description: Say window status Hotkey: Insert + H Description: Johnny Tools for BRITE hot key help Hotkey: Insert + W Description: BRITE tips on navigation / BRITE Windows Key Help Hotkey: Control + F1 Description: Go to Johnny Tools website Hotkey: Control + Alt + F1 Description: Go to HKBU website NVDA Hotkey: Control + Alt + F Description: Announce the current character information. Pressing twice shows further character information in browse mode. Hotkey: Control + Insert + F12 Description: Says Hong Kong Weather Forecast information; Hotkey: Shift + Insert + F12 Description: Announces the Hong Kong current weather information. Pressing twice reports the Hong Kong Weather Forecast information. Hotkey: Control + Alt + S Description: Select Google Translate languages Hotkey: Control + Alt + T Description: Says translated result from the clipboard. Hotkey: Control + Alt + D Description: Inquire Yahoo English to Chinese Dictionary; Hotkey: Control + Alt + F12 Description: Lookup today's lunar calendar Contact Information Should you have any queries or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us: Email address: johnnytools@outlook.com Website: http://johnnytools.awardspace.us/ Copyright (C) Johnny Lui. All rights reserved.