Overview

Mobile Speak for Pocket PCs is a screen reader application installed on a Windows Mobile Pocket PC personal digital assistant (PDA) or a Pocket PC PDA-phone convergence device which allows you to use the device even if you cannot read the visual screen. Information displayed on the screen is rendered in synthesized speech output generated using text-to-speech (TTS) technology and routed through the device’s speaker or a headset. Screen contents can also be presented in Braille if the mobile device is connected to a Braille device with a refreshable Braille display. Speech and Braille output can be used at the same time, or independently, to let you perform the following functions:

• Make and receive calls, and know about calls you missed.
• Manage your contacts and call lists.
• Check the caller ID on an incoming call.
• Check the battery level, signal strength, Bluetooth state, and other status details.
• Compose and read text messages (SMS) and e-mail.
• Use MSN / Windows Live Messenger for real-time text chats.
• Browse the internet and fill out online forms.
• Use Windows Live Search to readily find news, map directions, and information about books, music, video, and different products.
• Read different types of files including Microsoft Word and plain text documents, Braille formatted files, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Read text by character, word, line, sentence or paragraph, or read text continuously from the top of the file or the cursor position.
• Schedule appointments and tasks, and set reminders for each.
• Check the date and time currently set on the device.
• Set the clock and alarms.
• Create text and voice notes.
• Perform basic calculations.
• Listen to locally saved media files or internet audio streams.
• Browse the system of files and folders on the device and storage card.
• Configure phone settings, themes, profiles and ringtones.
• Assign speed dial keys and voice tags.
• Use Microsoft Voice Command and a Bluetooth headset with microphone to control your device wirelessly.
• Access other built-in and 3rd-party applications such asAvantGo newsreader, Audible Player for audio books, Skype for internet telephony, andSlovoEd Multilingual Dictionaries, just to name a few.
• Connect with other mobile phones and PDAs, as well as desktop and notebook computers to share data.

Mobile Speak does not take over the software interface of your Windows Mobile Professional Pocket PC phone or Windows Mobile Classic PDA, so you can access all its built-in functions and applications. Moreover, you can install compatible 3^rd-party programs to do more with your mobile device. External hardware such as Bluetooth keyboards and headsets are likewise supported, allowing you to control the phone wirelessly.

Please check the system requirements of this product concerning what you need to do on the mobile device itself and on the computer you will use to install Mobile Speak to the Pocket PC phone or PDA.

Product Highlights

• Highly intelligible text-to-speech voices from leading providers such as Acapela, Fonix and Loquendo.
• Support for more than 20 languages including English (US and UK), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Dutch (Netherlands and Belgium), Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Greek, and Russian.
• Compatibility with Mobile Magnifier for Pocket PCs .
• Support for more than 20 Braille devices from Optelec, HumanWare, BAUM, Eurobraille, Handy Tech, and ONCE-CIDAT.
• Braille input and output in different languages using uncontracted or contracted literary Braille, as well as six-dot and eight-dot computer Braille.
• Built-in, locale-dependent text input methods that use either the hardware keys on the device or the touch screen in a way that is accessible to blind users. Input using integrated and external keyboards is likewise supported.
• Built-in application for unpacking Bookshare.org BRF files and reading Braille Ready Format documents.
• Remote Screen Alignment application (downloaded separately) for calibrating the touch screen without sighted assistance after a device hard reset.
• Compatibility with Code Factory’s Windows Mobile Games Pack that consists of four games playable with speech feedback, Braille output, or both.
• Full access to different built-in and 3rd-party applications made even better with the use of LUA , a powerful, off-the-shelf scripting language.
• Additional functions in certain built-in applications such as commands for setting bookmarks, determining track length, and jumping to a specified time position in a track played using Windows Media Player.
• Ability to read graphical indicators such as those used for the call type (incoming, outgoing or missed) in Call History, or the message status (Unread, not downloaded, or with attachment) in the Messaging application.
• A review cursor that works independently and thus can navigate to different areas of the screen that are otherwise not accessible using the system focus.
• More than 30 user-configurable options, and the flexibility of being able to easily switch anytime between three user profiles (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced) that can have different settings.
• Commands that allow changing of important settings on the fly, such as keyboard echo, punctuation level, verbosity level, speech rate and volume.
• Commands for repeating or spelling the last spoken text, reading the whole screen or just parts of it like the softkeys, as well as interrupting speech output or toggling speech mute.
• Commands assigned to the most important functions can be performed with just one hand tapping areas of the touch screen in different ways.
• Easy and user-friendly installation and product activation processes.
• Context-sensitive help and a command Describer Mode available anywhere on the device.