[access-uk] Re: FW: Serotek Products Are Vista Ready

  • From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:43:16 -0000

Hi James,

I agree.  I simply forwarded the press release as is, I didn't write it.

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James O'Dell
Sent: 12 January 2007 11:55
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: FW: Serotek Products Are Vista Ready

Comment     about first legal music downloads without customised scripts is 
a little misleading - what about Napster and 7digital?

James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: [access-uk] FW: Serotek Products Are Vista Ready


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> From: FreedomBox Announcements [mailto:noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: None
> To: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Serotek Products Are Vista Ready
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> NEWS RELEASE
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> For Immediate Release
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> Contact:
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> Janelle Schulenberg
>
> Tacet Resources
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> 612-720-1068
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> <mailto:Janelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> janelle@xxxxxxxxx
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> Serotek Announces Vista-Ready Product Line
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> Assistive Technology Products Work With Vista
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> For Accessibility Right Out of the Box
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> Las Vegas, Nev. - January 11, 2007 - Serotek Corporation, the leading
> provider of Internet and digital information accessibility software and
> systems, today announced that its entire product line, including 
> FreedomBox
> and Key to Freedom with System Access software, is now integrated with
> Microsoft Windows Vista and available for download. The announcement was
> made at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an invitation-only technology
> trade event taking place this week in Las Vegas.
>
> This is not a beta; any current FreedomBox user or anyone with Vista can
> download the software from the company's web site www.freedombox.info
> <http://www.freedombox.info/> .
>
> Blind and visually impaired Information Technology managers who are 
> testing
> Vista for their organizations can now use Serotek's Key to Freedom to
> conduct the testing. Key to Freedom features Fonix DECtalk text-to-speech
> (TTS). Fonix DECtalk "speaks" screen content to the user in clear,
> understandable TTS voices in multiple languages.
>
> "Accessibility is not an option, it's a commitment," said Daniel Hubbell,
> Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, "With the release of Windows
> Vista compatible products, Serotek continues to make the computer 
> accessible
> for users of all abilities. And with the integration of media support, 
> these
> products will help set a new baseline for the industry as a whole."
>
> As part of its 'Vista-ready' rollout, Serotek will be working with Windows
> Media Player11 and the new URGE online music store. This allows the blind
> and visually impaired to use portable MP3 Players to participate in the
> legal downloading of online music for the first time without buying
> customized computer scripts.
>
> Serotek products also work with Windows Vista Media Center and the new 
> Aero
> Glass interface for electronic mail, right out of the box, without 
> requiring
> settings changes or software installations required by other screen 
> readers.
>
> "When we say we work with Vista, we mean across the board - remote control
> and all," said Mike Calvo, CEO, Serotek Corporation, "so the blind can use
> the electronic program guide on cable television and record programs just
> like the mainstream using Windows Media Center."
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> Serotek Corporation
>
>
> Serotek Corporation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a leading
> technology company that develops software and manufactures accessibility
> solutions under the brand name FreedomBox. Committed to the mission of
> providing accessibility anywhere, Serotek launched the FreedomBox family 
> of
> products and services and the FreedomBox Network, an online community
> specifically designed to meet the needs of people with disabilities. 
> Serotek
> provides powerful, affordable solutions that require minimal training. In
> 2005 the company was awarded the prestigious da Vinci award for innovation
> in universal accessibility by the National Multiple Sclerosis Association.
>
> For more information visit www.freedombox.info 
> <http://www.freedombox.info/>
> .
>
>
>
> Fonix Corporation
>
> Fonix Corporation (OTC BB: FNIX), based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an
> innovative speech recognition and text-to-speech technology company that
> provides value-added speech solutions through its wholly owned subsidiary,
> Fonix Speech, Inc., currently offering voice solutions for mobile/wireless
> devices; interactive video games, toys and appliances; computer telephony
> systems; the assistive market and automotive telematics. Fonix provides
> developers and manufacturers with cost-effective speech solutions to 
> enhance
> devices and systems. Visit www.fonix.com for more information, or call 
> (801)
> 553-6600 and say "Sales." Fonix DECtalk text-to-speech technology has been
> developed and refined over the past 20 years and is specifically designed
> for limited memory applications. Fonix DECtalk is the smallest footprint,
> full-featured, multi-language text-to-speech engine in the industry. 
> DECtalk
> supports the widest array of hardware platforms and operating systems on 
> the
> market and offers nine voices (four female, four male and one child's 
> voice)
> and seven languages (U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian and Latin American
> Spanish, French, German and Italian).
>
>
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