Learning with Sound (Audible Feedback)
TenKey Tutor includes the optional ability to "speak" the keys as you strike them, and to say "uh-oh" when an inappropriate key is used. The reason for including the "Uh-oh" is obvious; the spoken key names less so. But used judiciously, this feature can add nicely to your learning experience.
You turn sound on and off by selecting the Audible Feedback selection on the Options menu. If this item is checked on the menu, the sound feature is on. If cleared, sound is off. If the option is grayed out, either your have no sound card, or TenKey Tutor could not detect it.
When first learning touch keying in Learning Mode 3, the eye responds to the flashing key and the finger eventually finds and presses it. To speed this learning processes, add audible feedback.
With this option on, the voice provides both positive and negative feedback. When the correct key is struck, your ear confirms what you eye thought you were doing. When the wrong one is pressed, your ear tells you what your eye doesn't see. Eventually, with both your ear and eye working together with your fingers, the entire process becomes "mindless." What you see will flow from the screen into your fingers without conscious thought.
In an environment where audible feedback may annoy others, try using a headset so you don't have to forego this enhancement during your initial FlashKeys practice sessions.
When you graduate from the FlashKeys exercises to Drilling for Accuracy, the audible keystroke feedback is silenced automatically. Now the feedback is limited to an "uh-oh" when the wrong key is struck. The setting of the Audible Feedback on the Options menu is ignored, so turn your volume down if the "uh-oh" is disturbing others.
In these learning modes, there is some advantage to using audible feedback in the early phases for your training. But as your speed increases you will soon find that you can key far faster than the voice can speak. At that point, turn the sound off.