Sounds and voice — what each signal means
Eleven signals, each with a different meaning. Everything the terminal says also appears as text in the bar.
Step by step
Mute sounds
- Press F3. Without a keyboard, tap the gear at the right end of the bottom bar to expand the buttons, then tap F3 — Sound.
- You can see the change: the speaker icon becomes crossed out and dimmer, and the green dot on the button becomes an empty outline.
- Press F3 again to turn sound back on. The terminal immediately plays a short high-pitched tone as a sound check.
- This setting stays on this device. Sound remains muted after you leave and reopen the kiosk.
Turn off voice but keep sounds
- Press F4 or tap F4 — Voice in the expanded button row.
- The button’s dot goes out and the megaphone icon turns red. The icon’s shape does not change; its color and the dot are the only indications that voice is off.
- Scans still beep. Only speech is muted.
- Read the text bar above the bottom bar. Every message the terminal would speak appears there, even with voice off. It disappears after five seconds.
- Voice-off is not remembered. After you leave and reopen the kiosk, voice is on again. To keep it off for a whole shift, press F4 each time you enter.
The terminal is not speaking
- Check F4 — Voice. A red icon and empty dot mean voice is off; press F4.
- Check your mode. Stocktake and Replenishment are always silent by design, not because of a fault.
- Check the text bar above the bottom bar. If messages appear there, the terminal works and only speech is affected.
- Press F2 to switch to Keyboard, then tap the Scan location or product field. On devices that have not enabled speech automatically, tapping the field activates the speech engine.
- If the terminal speaks but not in Polish, the device has no Polish voice installed. The terminal does not disable speech; it uses the default voice. Tell your supervisor. The voice is installed in the handheld’s operating system.
Signals
| Sound | When it plays |
|---|---|
| short high-pitched tone | Scan accepted; operation succeeded |
| three descending tones | Error: unknown code, product outside queue, or server error |
| two even tones | Warning: duplicate, scan during save, or problem reported |
| three ascending tones | Completion: location, order, or queue closed |
| resonant thump | Goods put away |
| two rising tones | Location changed after a scan |
| two soft tones | Basket or cart scanned |
The device also vibrates if it supports vibration. A laptop will not.
Mute with F3 or the speaker icon in the bottom bar. The setting is stored on the device. Turning sound on plays the success tone as a test.
Voice
The terminal speaks in Polish. If the operating system has no Polish voice, it uses the default voice; speech is not disabled.
Location codes are read phonetically: WZ-1-PW-7 sounds like “voo zet one pe voo seven”. This is deliberate; spelling out “W” and “Z” can be confusing in warehouse noise.
Speech waits in a queue of up to five messages. Older messages are dropped so the terminal does not talk about something from a minute ago. The same message is not repeated twice in a row. Speech starts a quarter-second after the beep so they do not overlap.
Turn voice off with F4 or the speaker-with-waves icon.
Everything spoken is also written
This matters when the device is muted: every voice message appears in the text bar above the bottom bar, even when speech is off. The bar disappears after five seconds.
Two modes are deliberately silent
Stocktake and Replenishment do not speak at all. Stocktake involves counting the same location quickly, so speech would get in the way. Replenishment uses visual and sound feedback instead. This is not a fault.
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