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Mobile Speak Smartphone

Mobile Speak Smartphone
Price: $299.00
Product Code: VIS0021

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Mobile Speak SmartPhone, the first ever full-fledged screen reader for SmartPhones powered by the Windows Mobile platform.

Access, flexibility, and convenience
Breaking down yet another barrier to accessibility, Code Factory introduces Mobile Speak SmartPhone, the first ever full-fledged screen reader for SmartPhones powered by the Windows Mobile platform.

Mobile Speak SmartPhone (MSS) allows you to:

  • Quickly determine status information including battery level and charging state, signal level, speech volume level, number of missed calls and unread SMS, state of Bluetooth and WiFi, contact name or number of last incoming call, upcoming appointment, and number of active, high-priority and overdue tasks.
  • Keep track of outgoing, incoming and missed calls.
  • Review each digit in the dialing screen.
  • Configure availability of speech output while dialing.
  • Organize your contacts and assign individual ring tones.
  • Select and edit phone profiles.
  • Manage your appointments and tasks.
  • Send and receive SMS and email.
  • Communicate with friends and colleagues using instant messaging.
  • Browse the internet.
  • Read and edit Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
  • Use the Calculator to perform arithmetic operations.
  • Play different media files and listen to audiostreams.
  • Record and play voice notes.
  • Route speech and system audio to Bluetooth headsets.
  • Set and use speed dial keys and voice tags.
  • Change all device settings.
  • Synchronize data with the PC via ActiveSync.
  • Connect to other devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and laptops to share data.
  • Run third-party applications to enhance the functionality of the SmartPhone such as Microsoft Voice Command, AvantGo, Audible® Player and Audible® Air, Vieka Wordpad, and SlovoEd Multilingual Dictionaries among others.

Moreover, Mobile Speak SmartPhone provides:

  • Flexibility to choose and upgrade to any mainstream Pocket PC device meeting the system requirements.
  • Several Text-to-Speech voices to choose from, with support for more than 20 languages and the ability to have multiple TTS engines installed on the same device and easily selected anytime.
  • TTS-specific user dictionaries for configuring pronunciations easily.
  • Integration of support for more than 15 different Braille devices such as Braille displays, keyboards with or without refreshable Braille lines, and Haptic Braille printers, as well as different Braille languages and grades.
  • Ability to pair more than one Braille device with the Pocket PC through a user-friendly Device Manager that also allows you to switch between Braille devices anytime.
  • Support for the Think Outside external Bluetooth keyboard using its driver for Windows Mobile SmartPhone edition.
  • A review cursor for navigating to areas of the screen to which system focus cannot move.
  • Support for an advanced scripting language, LUA, to make more applications accessible.
  • A comprehensive on-board help system for learning commands and available functions.

 

Mobile Speak SmartphoneBasic Features:

  • Offers three user-configurable modes with varying settings for TTS options, verbosity, and text input.
  • Lets you easily change the speech rate, speech volume, and active mode on the fly. 
  • Reads the caller ID on an incoming call and mutes the ring tone with a single key press.
  • Includes an option for automatically muting speech when a call is active and lets you set the volume of screen reader speech during a call.
  • Reads status information including signal strength, battery level, number of missed calls and unread SMS, upcoming appointments and active tasks, Bluetooth and WiFi status.
  • Includes a command for switching between running applications, or quitting them.
  • Allows the user to hear either the contents of the whole screen or only what is in focus.
  • Provides speech feedback when entering data using multipress or predictive text input with different keyboard echo settings that can be changed on the fly.
  • Includes commands to navigate by character, word, or line, and to read continuously from the start of the text or from cursor position.
  • Features a user dictionary to define how words should be read.
  • Fully supports Messaging, Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks that can be synchronized with PC Outlook applications.
  • Supports Internet Explorer with commands to move by link, check the position on the web page, and to access online forms.
  • Supports Windows Media Player and the Voice Notes application for playing and recording audio.
  • Provides access to SmartPhone settings and the file system.
  • Includes commands to repeat the last spoken text and to spell it normally or phonetically.
  • Includes a command to toggle the muting of speech output anywhere.
  • Allows you to explore the screen with a review cursor that is independent of the system focus, but which can simulate the press of the Enter key on any item on the screen.
  • Features a Command Help Mode for learning all MSS functions.

It is important to note though that SmartPhones are not the same as Pocket PC phones on which you must install Mobile Speak Pocket.

In addition to support of regular Windows Mobile-based applications, Mobile Speak SmartPhone uses a powerful off-the-shelf scripting language called LUA, thus providing a way to customize the interaction of MSS with applications that haven't been designed using standard controls or a screen reader-compatible Windows user interface.

Moreover, Mobile Speak SmartPhone takes up relatively small program memory, is robust and reliable, fast and responsive, and extensible with user-customizable features. Through its Control Panel, it is possible to fully configure the behavior of MSS with more than 50 different user settings. Configuration settings can be stored in different modes between which the user can switch anytime to suit his/her need or preference.

Mobile Speak SmartPhone is powered by state of the art Text-to-Speech engines provided by top leading speech providers, such as Fonix, Acapela, and soon Loquendo among others. Currently, MSP supports around 20 languages including US and UK English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch (Netherlands and Belgium), Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish, Czech, and many more to come.

Please Note: We currently only license Fonix voices for Mobile Speak SmartPhone Similarly, Mobile Speak Smartphone is a great solution even for Braille-only users as we support more than 15 Braille devices from HumanWare, Handy Tech, Optelec, BAUM, ViewPlus, Eurobraille and ONCE CIDAT. Input and output in 6-dot and 8-dot computer Braille, as well as Grades 1 and 2 literary Braille, for several languages and variants are likewise supported.

System Requirements

In order to successfully use Mobile Speak SmartPhone, the following specifications are required:
  • Operating system - Windows Mobile 5.0 SmartPhone edition and later versions.
  • Memory - At least 32 MB RAM, and 2 to 20 MB of storage memory depending on the text-to-speech engine used. An external storage card compatible with your device is strongly recommended.
  • Built-in Bluetooth - A Bluetooth-compliant device is required to run Mobile Speak Pocket. This will also allow you to use Bluetooth-enabled external keyboards, headsets, and other accessories.
  • Connectivity to a Windows PC with ActiveSync - The device should be able to connect via USB or Bluetooth to a Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer with the latest version of Microsoft ActiveSync correctly installed.

Mobile Speak SmartPhone has been tested with a number of devices including those from Microsoft partner High Tech Computer Corporation, Motorola, and i-Mate. Click here to view the device compatibility list for Mobile Speak SmartPhone.

Please Note: Mobile Speak SmartPhone is NOT compatible with AT&T Tilt.




 



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