[bksvol-discuss] FYI: Fwd: Fw: OcuSource Creates Alliance with InternetSpeech to Allow Vision Impaired Visitors to "Listen" to the Internet by Telephone
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- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:01:00 -0800 (PST)
> "Listen" to the Internet by Telephone
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:30:36 -0600
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> PR WEB
> Thursday, March 24, 2005
>
> OcuSource Creates Alliance with InternetSpeech to
> Allow Vision Impaired
> Visitors to "Listen" to the Internet by Telephone
>
> OcuSource.com, LLC and InternetSpeech, announced the
> alliance between the
> companies designed to make the internet more
> accessible to the elderly, the
> visually impaired and novice web-surfers via the
> telephone.
>
> (PRWEB) March 24, 2005 -- OcuSource.com, LLC and
> InternetSpeech, announced
> the alliance between the companies designed to make
> the internet more
> accessible to the elderly, the visually impaired and
> novice web-surfers.
> Internet Speech and its web-based service, netECHO®
> has agreed to
> voice-enable many of OcuSource's resources available
> to the low vision and
> blind community on its information portal located at
> www.ocusource.com.
>
> "There are a large number of seniors and visually
> impaired individuals that
> either do not have a computer or have not yet
> developed the skills to use
> one" states Dr. Lou Lipschultz, founder and CEO of
> OcuSource.com. "Through
> our relationship with InternetSpeech and the
> integration of netEcho into our
> web-presence, even individuals without a computer
> can search OcuSource for
> doctors, agencies, services and products for low
> vision and blindness using
> their home telephone. Subscribers to the netEcho
> service may also use the
> service to browse other websites and even listen to
> their email by
> telephone," Lipschultz affirmed.
>
> netECHO allows users to navigate the OcuSource
> website and the rest of the
> internet using voice commands and any telephone.
> Developed and deployed in
> the U.S. in 2000. netECHO's patented technology
> provides content from any
> Web site in real-time, going beyond traditional
> voice portal features like
> news, weather, stock quotes and horoscopes.
> Customers can also search any
> word(s) using search engines like Google, Altavista
> and MSN. "InternetSpeech
> is devoted to offering true Internet access to
> everyone through a simple
> telephone interface," said Dr. Emdad Khan, founder,
> president and CEO of
> InternetSpeech. "We realized that the need for Voice
> Internet access is more
> pronounced in the over 40 million elderly, visually
> impaired and blind
> people in the U.S. and that there are also many more
> outside the U.S. who
> could use the service. Aligning ourselves with
> OcuSource assists the
> management team at OcuSource in achieving its goals
> of making resources
> available to the vision impair!
> ed both in the domestically and internationally. It
> is very important to
> provide the "real" Internet to these people,
> especially the ones who cannot
> easily access the Internet otherwise."
>
> For more information regarding the netEcho service,
> consumers should visit
> the OcuSource website at:
>
http://www.ocusource.com/ocusource/index.cfm?page=netecho
>
> About OcuSource
> OcuSource, LLC, the owner and operator of
> OcuSource.com, an internet portal
> dedicated to assisting the low vision and blindness
> industry with essential
> online services. OcuSource's mission is to enhance
> access to products,
> information, and services to individuals with vision
> impairment, as well as
> the professionals who assist them, through a set of
> integrated web-based
> resources. OcuSource maintains an information and
> product website
> (www.ocusource.com), as well as auction services for
> used low vision and
> blindness products (www.ocusource.com/ocutrade ).
> The privately held company
> was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in
> Placentia, California.
>
> About InternetSpeech
> InternetSpeech is the leader in voice Internet
> technology. Its voice
> browser, netECHO, provides businesses and consumers
> complete anytime,
> anywhere voice-based telephone access to the
> Internet. The company's
> patented technology can be bundled with other
> products such as traditional
> computer-based Internet access, locations-based
> services, or visual micro
> browsers. InternetSpeech also offers business
> software that automates the
> process of voice-enabling a company's Web site and
> applications in any
> language, furthering the development of a globally
> connected voice Internet.
> InternetSpeech, a privately held company
> headquartered in San Jose, Calif.,
> founded in Dec., 1998.
>
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