>From: "Steve Pattison" <srp@bigpond.net.au>
>Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 23:22:03 +1000
>Subject: Fwd: Accessible Mobile Phones
>To: gui-talk@NFBnet.org (Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List)
>
>>From: "Don Bomer" <dbomer@bellsouth.net>
>
>Robert, Please put this on the ListServ. Thanks, Don...
>
>Greetings,
>
>To all who may be interested in a fully speech enabled cell phone please be patient. There are several on the market that can store several numbers for voice-activated dialing but true speech-enabled is coming soon.
>
>In one instance Conversay, a leading company for embedded system speech technology, licensed their technology to QuallCom, a leading chip maker for cellular phones. The QualCom MSM chip has text-to-speech and speech recognition. In addition, it has satellite-based GPS and a new Cellular based GPS called GPS One. These reportedly can operate either together or independently, with GPS-One working inside of buildings and in street canyons.
>
>Such a cell phone was supposely released overseas (I think it was in Japan) last December / January and was scheduled for release in the U S this Spring.
>
>From Conversay's website I just found the following press release on a Samsung "Watch Phone" that will be released soon:
>
>"The first implementation is a small Watchphone that Samsung will make available soon. This phone is an amazing example of leading-edge technology that will change the way we communicate.
>
>It contains Conversay's small footprint, speaker independent, continuous speech recognition engine, as well as text-to-speech. It includes a voice phone book with name dialing, digit dialing, command and control, voice calendaring, and more."
>
>So as I said, be patient! Technology is escalating at an ever-increasing pace.
>
>Regards,
>Don Bomer
>Member, NFB R&D Committee
>WebMaster, www.nfbofalabama.org
>
>From: ROBERT MARTIN
>
>Several months ago there was some information on this list about a European company developing a program that would enable certain cellular phones to speak many of its commands and other information. If anyone has additional information about this development or any other cellular phones that are particularly friendly to blind or visually impaired users, I would appreciate such information. My old flip phone has served me well for about 6 years but is soon going to need replacement. Thanks in advance for any information.
>
>Regards Steve,
>mailto:srp@bigpond.net.au.
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