[access-uk] Re: Is this the end for accessibility to Nokia mobile phones?
- From: "Adrien Collins" <adriencollins22160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:19:55 +0100
Hi
No, if so, why hasn't Microsoft incorporated a decent speech
system into windows?
Regards
Adrien
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ankers, Dave
(UK)
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:02 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Is this the end for accessibility
to Nokia mobile phones?
More chance of seeing Pigs flying, than there is of seeing a
Nimrod
MRA4! See Utube.
Do you think Microsoft and Google, really care about
accessibility?
Cheers
Dave
Maybe if Microsoft and Nokia are going into competition
against Apple
that they will develop their own built in speech similar to
Voiceover.
Or will pigs manage to fly before that happens?
Tom.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Hill" <bbinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:13 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Is this the end for accessibility
to Nokia
mobile phones?
> Oh dear. It does seem like Apple is the only viable
option. Is there
> any access with the Android system?
>
> Cheers
>
> Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Damon Rose
> Sent: 11 February 2011 11:02 AM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Is this the end for accessibility
to Nokia
> mobile phones?
>
> But I'd rather presumed that MobileSpeak was also dead in
the water
> because it works on Windows, and, as discussed, the new
Windows Mobile
> 7 operating system is inaccessible. I understood that
MobileSpeak were
> working on other income streams to stay afloat. These were
just
> rumours but they seem to make sense unless a big access
solution is
> pending very soon with Windows.
>
> What is the future for Talks?
>
> I note that Nuance has created some kind of app that works
on the
iPhone.
> I
> think it's just provision of speech synthesis.
>
>
> ...Damon
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Barry Hill
> Sent: 12 February 2011 10:51
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Is this the end for accessibility
to Nokia
> mobile phones?
>
> Perhaps we could switch to Mobilespeak? Yes, it means
that any of our
> investment in Talks is going to go to waste, and also
means that we
> have to pay for another speech software system, but it's
an option.
>
> Cheers
>
> Barry
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Damon Rose
> Sent: 11 February 2011 10:44 AM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Is this the end for accessibility to
Nokia mobile
> phones?
>
>
>
> Nokia have today announced that they are partnering with
MicroSoft and
> will be using the Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 operating
system which is
> presently inaccessible.
>
> The noise suggests that the Symbian operating system,
which Talks runs
> on, will be sidelined.
>
> So, by extension, does this mean that Talks is now dead in
the water?
>
> I speak as a long time Talks user who would be a bit
disappointed if
so.
>
>
> Is Apple iPhone the only choice left now?
>
> ...Damon
>
>
> Damon Rose
> Senior Content Producer Ouch! website and talk show BBC
Vision
> Learning
>
> Tel: 020 8752 4427 (x0224427)
> email: damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx
> Twitter: @damonrose
>
> bbc.co.uk/ouch is home of the Ouch! Talk Show online since
2006.
> Disability chat like wot you'd have with yer mates - via
podcast or
> streamed on the web:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast>
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>
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