Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks

[Sean McMahon]

According to the last report on cellphone trends released by the FCC, cdma is 
only slightly more common in terms of coverage in the US. 99% for cdma VS. 98% 
for gsm.  That was for population percentages not area which still was about 69% 
coverage for all cellphone technology in total.
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks


> Another thing I think is better with Mobile Speak is it has been ported
> to CDMA phones and I don't think Talks has.  Here in the US, CDMA is
> more common and available in more areas than GSM.  It seems like all the
> progressive development happens with GSM but getting that into CDMA is
> like pulling teeth.
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:45:53AM -0500, David Poehlman wrote:
>> There's been a lot of progress in Mobile speak lately.  I've heard
>> that talks and the 6682 do not play well together.
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Shawn Keen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've tried both talks and mobile speak,  Talks I use on my Nokia 6620
>> and I
>> tried mobile speak on a nokia 6682.  Using dectalk speech I found it
>> very
>> sluggish,  with talks when you hit a key you hear the function of
>> that key
>> and I didn't see the same type of responsiveness with MS. Mostly a
>> lot of
>> hangs and stuttering speech and a few lockups.
>>
>> I wasn't aware of the custom menus problem, maybe that was early in it's
>> development.
>>
>>    I didn't try it with any other synths besides dectalk so maybe
>> that was
>> the problem but after giving it a week of using it I was ready to
>> wait till
>> I could afford to get talks on my 6682.
>>
>> I like how code factory has a screen reader for the pDA's.  that is
>> something I was real interested in looking at. and from the demos
>> I've herd
>> of it sounds real nice.  Hopefully it's a more stable program.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 4:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: Text-To-Speech on Phones: Nuance Talks
>>
>>
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>> > - From what I recall hearing on acb radio's main menu a while back,
>> > the
>> > problem with mobile-speak vs. talx is that it doesn't give you access
>> > to all the menu options of the phone, rather, it presents you with its
>> > own custom menu, as opposed to the phone's actual menu. Has this
>> > changed, or is that still true?
>> >
>> > Also, on a scale of hundreds, and in some cases thousands of dollars,
>> > 46 dollars more isn't too much of a difference, especially if it means
>> > that you can access more of what the phone has to offer.
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:17:50AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>> >> Hi.
>> >>
>> >> If you are going to push commercial screen readers, you should
>> >> mention
>> >> both.
>> >>
>> >> Mobile-speak is also available for the same phones that run talks
>> >> and it
>> >> is cheaper.  I bought it for only $249 instead of $295.  Mobile-speak
>> >> also supports more software synths than talks.
>> >>
>> >> http://codefactory.es
>> >>
>> >>           Kenny
>> >>
>> >>
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