Mobile Speak is a screen reader application installed on a Symbian-based mobile phone 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 phone 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.
- Read the caller ID on incoming calls, and check numbers that you have dialed before placing the call.
- Manage your contacts and call logs.
- Check the battery level, signal strength, Bluetooth state, and other status details.
- Compose and read text messages (SMS), multimedia messages (MMS), and e-mail.
- Browse the internet and fill out online forms.
- Read different types of files including Microsoft Word and plain text documents.
- Read text by character, word or line.
- Schedule appointments and tasks.
- Check the date and time currently set on the phone.
- Set the clock and alarms.
- Create text and voice notes.
- Perform arithmetic calculations.
- Convert from one currency or unit of measurement to another.
- Listen to locally saved media files or internet audio streams.
- Browse the system of files and folders on the phone and storage card.
- Configure phone settings, themes, profiles and ringtones.
- Assign speed dial keys and voice tags.
- Access other built-in and 3rd-party applications such as Fring or IM Plus instant messenger, Wallet, and Wayfinder Access for GPS navigation, just to name a few.
- Connect with other mobile phones, as well as desktop and notebook computers to share data.
Product Highlights
- Highly intelligible text-to-speech voices from leading providers such as Acapela, Fonix, Loquendo and Svox.
- 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, Icelandic, Greek, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese.
- Compatibility with Mobile Magnifier for Symbian Phones .
- Support for more than 20 Braille devices from Optelec, HumanWare, BAUM, Eurobraille, and Handy Tech.
- Braille input and output in different languages using uncontracted or contracted literary Braille, as well as six-dot and eight-dot computer Braille.
- Full access to different built-in applications, and support for 3rd-party programs designed to enhance the functionality of the mobile phone.
- More than 30 user-configurable options, and the flexibility of being able to easily switch anytime between three user profiles (Beginner, Normal, 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.
- Option to automatically mute speech when the keypad is locked, but still have speech output when commands for checking status information or date and time are used. Speech is also automatically unmuted when keypad is unlocked.
- Easy and user-friendly installation and product activation processes.
- Command Help Mode available anywhere on the phone.