Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yeah, I agree totally. There is of course the screenless phone, oasys
(spelling) 2200 I think. It does cost the same amount as one of the
higher-end phones plus talx, assuming you don't want the 2-year new
plan with tmobile, which I myself don't. So, from my point of view,
the real distinction is not the price, but whether you want a phone
that can do things such as e-mail, web browsing, ETC., and is from
what I hear mostly functional with speech, or if you want a simple
phone that can just do calls and text messaging, but is fully
accessible from startup to shutdown, and designed specifically for the
blind. 

I guess the only other plus for the screenless phone is that it does
have a serial cable, is gnu/linux based, and will have an sdk for it,
if it doesn't already have one. So, it has the potential to surpass
the other option I suppose in terms of what it can do, but as far as I
know, it's not there yet.

Ok, rant over for me as well.

Greg


On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:57AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> <rant>
> And all for the incredibly low price of only $295.  So in order to have
> a phone I can actually do more than just dial numbers on, not only do I
> have to get one of the most expensive phones in the store, but I then
> have to pay an additional $295.  But the rest of the world gets their
> phones for as little as ... ehhem ... free.  Did somebody say ripoff?
> Give me an open source screen reader for my phone.  I mean someone is
> actually developing a free open source screen reader for Winblows now.
> Is it so hard to do it for the phone too?  Hmm.  Maybe I could get one
> of those new Linux-powered phones.  Maybe Speakup can work with it.
> That would be very nice.  I would have to get a more expensive phone,
> but I would support free and open source software in the process.
> </rant>
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