[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.
Le Bavardeur is vocalised by your screen reader, such as NVDA or JAWS. You must therefore start your screen reader before using Le Bavardeur. The ergonomics of the Bavardeur are based on its use with the keyboard.
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 THE 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 THE 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 or OmniPage 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 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. There is a list of actions in this dialog box for quick access to other functions.

[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. There is a list of actions in this dialog box for quick access to other functions.

[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.

[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 Internet 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.

[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. There is a list of actions in this dialog box for quick access to other functions.