General Description
Code Factory’s Mobile Speak line of screen readers consists of software applications installed on a mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), which allow 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 or PDA 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 do the following:
- Make and receive calls, and manage your contacts and
call lists.
- Review the numbers entered in the dialer screen, and check the caller ID on incoming calls.
- Compose and read text messages (SMS), multimedia messages (MMS), and e-mail.
- Browse the internet.
- Create and read different types of files.
- Schedule appointments and tasks, and keep track of them using alarms and reminders.
- Listen to locally saved media files or internet audio streams.
- Configure phone settings, profiles and ringtones, speed dial keys and voice tags.
- Use other programs such as the Notes application, calculator, instant messenger, and file system browser.
- Share data between your device and other mobile phones
and computers.
Mobile Speak does not take over the software interface of your mobile device, so you can access all its built-in functions and applications. Moreover, you can install compatible 3rd-party programs to do more with your mobile phone or PDA. External hardware such as Bluetooth keyboards and headsets are likewise supported.
Who can Benefit
If you are blind or have a vision impairment that prevents
you from reading the screen of a mobile phone or PDA, if you are
deafblind or prefer using Braille with or without speech to
access a mobile device, or if you find yourself in situations
where you wish you could read the screen of your cell phone but
cannot or prefer not to (e.g., while driving), then please check
out our Mobile Speak line of screen readers as they can just be
the solution you need.
Types of Screen Readers
We develop screen readers for the following devices:
Mobile Speak for Symbian and Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile, This means that whatever supported Windows Mobile device you have, whether it is a Smartphone, Pocket PC (touch screen devices) the installation file is the same.
There are two Mobile Speak installation files, Mobile Speak for Symbian .sis), and Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile (.exe.)
Finding the
Screen Reader for You
If you know the operating system used on the mobile phone of your choice, then select the appropriate screen reader:
Click the LINK below to go to Code Factory's web site to lear more and or download a DEMO
If you have not yet decided on the phone you want to access, use the Mobile Device selector Wizard of the Personal Assistant to find the one that will suit your preferences. When your choices have been narrowed down, you can select a device, read its technical specifications and physical description, and determine the Code Factory screen reader compatible with it.
Comparison Table of Specifications
» Coming soon
What Makes Code Factory screen Readers the Best choice
With its multiplatform support, the Mobile Speak line of screen readers is distinguished from similar products in the market by its:
- Compatibility with more than two hundred mainstream devices, mainly mobile phones on different network types including GSM, CDMA and WcDMA networks.
- Support for different text-to-speech engines and more than 20 languages including English (US and UK), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Dutch (Netherlands and Belgium), Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, Greek, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese Mandarin.
- Support for more than 20 Braille devices used for input, output, or both, and which are not only light and portable like the mobile device, but also Bluetooth-compliant allowing for wireless access.
- Seamless integration with Code Factory’s full-screen magnification products featuring zoom levels up to 16x, font smoothing, cursor-tracking, Colour schemes, and many more.
- The most comprehensive support for built-in applications, sometimes even including additional commands and functions that are useful to blind and visually impaired users.
- Support for a wide range of 3rd-party programs for mobile devices, which is continuously improved with the use of a powerful scripting language or a direct partnership with the mainstream software developer.
- Compatibility with reasonably priced add-ons developed by Code Factory, not only to meet the specific needs of the blind and visually impaired, but also to provide functionality that helps them perform tasks with more confidence and independence.
- The most number of user-customizable settings for speech verbosity and Braille access, thus allowing for maximum flexibility.
General description
Code Factory’s line of flexible and full-screen Mobile Magnifiers consists of software applications installed on a mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), which enlarge screen contents for you to see them better, employ different techniques to display high-definition text for you to read more easily, and include navigation functions for you to effortlessly zoom in on any area of interest on the screen. Although licensed separately, these screen magnifiers can be used in conjunction with Code Factory screen readers so that information displayed on the screen is also rendered in synthesized speech output generated using text-to-speech (TTS) technology and routed through the device’s speaker or a headset.
Today, there are a variety
of devices that are essential in our daily
communications with family, friends and
colleagues. Such devices also serve as a
portable extension of one’s computer so that
data processing tasks can be accomplished even
while a person is on the move. Indeed, mobile
phones and PDAs are becoming extremely popular,
but the small size of the text and images
displayed on the screen make it extremely
difficult for the visually impaired to use them
effectively. Code Factory’s Mobile Magnifier
product line takes on this challenge and
successfully allows you to:
- Read the screen, regardless of its size and resolution, through a magnified view of the text and icons.
- Get full-screen magnification at customizable zoom levels.
- Readily find areas of interest such as the window title, softkeys, and status icons.
- Keep track of items currently selected in lists, menus, and text editors.
- Pan (i.e., scroll from left to right) screen contents automatically if the magnified item or line of text does not fit the screen.
- Zoom in on any part of the screen by moving the magnified view independent of the system focus.
- Enable and disable magnification anytime, or have the magnifier turned on automatically from device start-up.
- Read magnified text displayed in smoothed, well defined font that lessens the strain on the eyes (full versions only).
- Change screen Colours, text borders and cursor appearance according to your preference (full versions only).
- Choose to have screen magnification on any of more than two hundred supported phones and PDAs.
Who can Benefit
If you are partially
sighted but have difficulty seeing the contents
of the small screen of a mobile phone or PDA, if
you have decreased vision all the time or only
in certain conditions (e.g., at night or when
there is not enough light) which prevents you
from comfortably accessing a mobile device, or
you simply want to reduce the strain on your
eyes when reading text displayed on your cell
phone’s screen, then please check out our Mobile
Magnifier line of full-screen magnification
software as they can just be the solution you
need.
Types of Screen Magnifiers
We develop screen magnification applications for the following devices:
Mobile Magnifier runs on Symbian as well as Windows Mobile devices.
Finding the Screen Magnifier for You
If you know the operating system used on the mobile phone of your choice, then select the appropriate screen magnifier:
If you have not yet
decided on the phone you want to access, use the
Mobile Device selector Wizard of the
Personal Assistant to find the one that will
suit your preferences. When your choices have
been narrowed down, you can select a device,
read its technical specifications and physical
description, and determine the Code Factory
screen Magnifier compatible with it.
Note: All supported PDA-only
devices are based on the Windows Mobile Pocket
PC platform and are thus compatible with Mobile
Magnifier for Pocket
PCs.
Comparison Table of Specifications
Coming soon
What Makes Code Factory screen Magnifiers the Best choice
With its multiplatform support, the Mobile Magnifier line of screen readers is distinguished from similar products in the market by its:
- Compatibility with more than two hundred mainstream devices, mainly mobile phones on different network types including GSM, CDMA and WcDMA networks.
- Support for more than 20 languages including English (US and UK), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Dutch (Netherlands and Belgium), Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, Greek, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese Mandarin.
- Support for both low- and high-resolution screens.
- Implementation of
font-smoothing techniques, unique to Code
Factory magnifiers, to make magnified text
appear less jagged and thus easier to read.
- Functions and options that simplify cursor-tracking and screen-scrolling.
- Seamless integration with Code Factory’s screen reading products featuring support for different text-to-speech engines from award-winning providers such as Acapela, Fonix and Loquendo, an intuitive command structure, and a small footprint that yields maximum responsiveness.
- The most comprehensive support for built-in applications, sometimes even including additional commands and functions that are useful to visually impaired users.
- Support for a wide range of 3rd-party programs for mobile devices, which is continuously improved with the use of a powerful scripting language or a direct partnership with the mainstream software developer.
- Compatibility with reasonably priced add-ons developed by Code Factory, not only to meet the specific needs of the visually impaired, but also to provide functionality that helps them perform tasks with more confidence and independence.
- The most number of user-customizable settings for enlarging text and making screen contents more readily visible, thus allowing for maximum flexibility.
BRAILLE
Mobile Speak includes Braille Driver Software to interface the Mobile Phone, PDA, or Pocket PC to the Baum range of
VarioConnect
Braille Displays.
With a Braille Display connected a vision impaired person can send and receive SMS messages to and from blind and sighted friends, and use the mobile phone just like everyone else, but with the privacy and accuracy of Braille.
The VarioConnect range of Braille displays all include a Braille Keyboard for entering text, phone numbers etc, and Braille Cells to read information from the phone, and also various control buttons, and a mini joy stick (navistick) to move the Braille display through the phones information.
Braille is more accurate than speech, and enables a vision impaired person access to their communication device in privacy.
Barcelona (Terrassa), August 8th, 2008
Code Factory, the world's mobile accessibility provider,
today announced the release of version 2.0 of Mobile DAISY
Player, the only DAISY reader to work with mainstream mobile
phones.
This release is just one more way in which Code Factory shows its commitment to enabling reading on a mobile device as an easy and pleasurable experience.
"We at Code Factory have always realized that mobile devices have the potential to give blind and visually impaired users unprecedented access to reading material wherever they are”, explains Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory's CEO. "Mobile DAISY Player has a unique role to play in allowing access to books from many different sources on many different mobile phones. A short time ago, a blind or visually impaired user was at a distinct disadvantage in that he/she had to carry large Braille volumes, many cassette tapes, or a specialized player if he/she wished to read on the go. With Mobile DAISY Player, however, a blind or visually impaired user, with a DAISY book, has an even more portable method of reading than his/her sighted colleagues, since he/she can carry many books on a mobile phone which he/she would be carrying in any case."
Why is Mobile DAISY Player unique?
• Mobile DAISY Player V2.0 is the only accessible application which reads DAISY books on Symbian Mobile Phones. A version compatible with Windows Mobile devices will soon be released.
• Reading books in Mobile DAISY Player V2.0 is very easy: simply create a folder on the memory card, usually known as (E:), called "books", and copy each of the books into a subfolder of that books folder. Book content is generally either downloaded from the web or available on CD, in either case, copy all of the book contents into the destination folder.
• Includes support for DAISY 2.0 and 3.0 formats, allowing access to a wider variety of content and providers.
• Automatic unpacking of Bookshare.org books, making it unnecessary to install and run a separate application just to decompress Bookshare files.
• You can record your own voice annotations as bookmarks within the content. These voice notes will appear in the bookmark list, and the sound recordings will be heard automatically when the book is in normal playback mode.
• Configurable font sizes and screen Colours have also been implemented to provide maximum readability of on-screen text, especially for dyslexic persons.
• Mobile DAISY Player can be used with or without Code Factory’s world-leading screen reader, Mobile Speak. When combined with Mobile Speak, Mobile DAISY Player becomes a fully-accessible e-book solution, providing speech feedback of the screen prompts and menus as well as speaking the book contents. For those users who do not need a full-fledged screen reader, Mobile DAISY Player can still take advantage of the Nokia’s built-in text-to-speech support on S60 phones to read text content. In either case, Mobile DAISY Player is an independent product, and is licensed separately from Mobile Speak.
• Two modes of navigation: the normal reading mode and the virtual cursor mode. The normal reading mode is active when the book is in continuous playback mode, and is playing either audio or text content. When playback is paused, the virtual cursor mode is active, allowing you to navigate the text content of the book, if any, using the screen reader.
• Rewind and forward in cassette or digital mode.
• Mobile DAISY Player can be used with other screen readers, although other screen readers may not offer the same level of integration as Mobile Speak, particularly when reading text books. For example, all of the normal screen prompts and menus will be accessible within Mobile DAISY Player. However, other screen readers may not recognize the book text as a special type of content, and may attempt to read it at the same time as Mobile DAISY Player. For this reason, we recommend that users of other screen readers temporarily mute speech while in book reading mode, and then resume speaking when switching to other applications or when using the application menus. Mobile Speak does recognize the book contents and will mute itself automatically during playback.
Apart from all these unique features, Mobile DAISY Player V2.0 also includes:
• Variable playback speed allowing audio content to be reproduced faster or slower than the speed at which it was recorded without changing the sound’s pitch.
• Variable navigation levels (e.g.: by chapter and/or by page).
• Quick and easy navigation to any point in the book.
• Support for text-only, audio-only, or mixed-mode books.
• Ability to set bookmarks to favorite places in the content.
• Auto-bookmark and resume to last point in the book.
• Variable volume level.
• Customizable Text-To-Speech support via Mobile Speak.
Mobile DAISY Player 2.0 supports the following Nokia Symbian 9 phones: 3250, 5320, 5500 Sport, 5700 Xpress Music, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, 6124, 6210, 6220, 6290, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90 Communicator, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, N95 8GB, N96.
Visit http://www.codefactory.es/downloads and install Mobile DAISY Player on your mobile phone and it will automatically work free for 30 days. While using a trial license, you cannot change the date or the time of the phone. Changing the date or time will automatically lock the trial license, without any chance to recover it. Please make sure that the time and date are set correctly on the phone before installing the software.
To buy Mobile DAISY Player, contact your closest distributor: http://www.codefactory.es/en/purchase.asp?id=54
Don’t miss the Reading on the go competition, more than $20000 worth of prizes to be divided among ten winners. To learn more go to http://www.codefactory.es/en/page.asp?id=251. To join the competition, go to http://www.codefactory.es/contest .
About Code Factory
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Terrassa/Barcelona,
Spain, Code Factory is the global leader committed to the
development of products designed to eliminate barriers to the
accessibility of mobile technology for the blind and visually
impaired. Today, Code Factory is the leading provider of screen
readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the
widest range of mainstream mobile devices including
Symbian-based and Windows Mobile-powered Smartphones as well as
Pocket PC phones and PDAs. Its product line is the only one to
support phones working on the GSM, CDMA and WCDMA networks. Code
Factory's success lies in giving excellent customer support and
in responding immediately to the needs of its end users.
Among Code Factory’s customers are well known organizations like
ONCE, and carriers such as TMN, Vodafone, SFR, Bouygues Telecom
and AT&T. The company also collaborated with leading TTS
providers and Braille manufacturers, thus enabling Code Factory
to provide excellent text-to-speech technology in many languages
for Mobile Speak products, and to incorporate support for over
twenty wireless Braille devices into the software.
Explore your World with Mobile Geo (Australian Maps Now Available!)
Mobile Geo has been named
International
CES Best of Innovations 2009 Design and
Engineering Award Honoree (Personal
electronics category) by the Consumer
Electronics Association (CEA).
IMPORTANT: Mobile Geo requires that you have MSP v2.0.146 and MSS v2.0.178 (or later versions) on your Windows Mobile device.
Mobile Geo is Code Factory’s GPS navigation
software for Windows Mobile-based Smartphones,
Pocket PC phones and personal digital assistants
(PDAs). Powered by GPS and mapping technology
from the
Sendero Group , a leading provider of GPS
products for the blind, Mobile Geo is the first
solution specifically designed to serve as a
navigation aid for people with a visual
impairment which works with a wide range of
mainstream mobile devices. Although it is a
separately licensed product, Mobile Geo is
seamlessly integrated with Code Factory’s
popular screen readers –
Mobile Speak for Pocket PCs and
Mobile Speak for Windows Mobile Smartphones
.
With Mobile Geo, you can pinpoint your location,
learn about the points of interest (POIs) in
your immediate vicinity, plan a route between
specified points of origin and destination, and
get instructions on maneuvers to make as well as
information about waypoints along a route that
you are following. However, Mobile Geo by no
means replaces a cane or dog guide, and use of
this product when traveling independently is
recommended only when the blind user has
received training in the skills of orientation
and mobility.
20 reasons to get going with Geo
- GEO IS BACKED BY THE BEST
Based on the revolutionary technology of the Sendero Group, makers of innovative refreshable Braille navigation products such as the BrailleNote GPS, Mobile Geo is the first, best software GPS solution for the blind and low vision that can be installed on mainstream mobile phones and wireless devices. - GEO WILL LOOK FOR YOU
When you’re on the move with Mobile Geo, be it at either 1 mile per hour or 101 miles per hour, relax while Geo automatically announces upcoming intersections, points of interests, city names and so much more; all through the comfort and convenience of your mobile phone. Want privacy? No problem, simply attach your favorite wired or Bluetooth headset to your phone and “You’re Ready to Go.” - GEO GIVES YOU VIRTUAL REALITY
Want to experience a real virtual reality? With the combined power and technical resources of Code Factory and Sendero, use Mobile Geo to explore your world without ever leaving home. That’s right! Geo lets you preview a route or visit a distant city, including its points of interests, with the virtual flick of a real switch. - GEO’S GOT YOUR BACK
Seamlessly slide Geo to the background when you want to make or answer a telephone call, send text messages, read emails, surf the web, whatever and whenever you want and Geo will continue to provide “LookAround” announcements. - GEO LISTENS TO YOU
Mobile Geo is the first and only world-class GPS navigation software solution for the blind and low vision that is 100% compatible with Microsoft Voice Command, a voice interface solution that allows you to issue commands by merely speaking them into the phone. So, the next time you find yourself walking up the boulevard or rolling down the street ask Geo and it will tell you where you are, the distance to the next intersection or what turn you should make next. Don’t worry, even when you’re exploring your world in Virtual Mode, Geo can still hear you and will respond to your commands. It just doesn’t get any better than this. - GEO’S HOT
Feel the heat of Mobile Geo one-touch Hotkey commands; just tap a key and enjoy Geo’s lightning-fast reply, telling you everything you want to know. - GEO’S GOT VIBES
Not only will Geo navigate, listen, and reply with speech and audio feedback, it will also shake you up. Geo will move your body as it tells you how to move through your world with its innovative Morse Code based vibratory feedback alert system. Deaf-blind travelers will find this feature especially useful. - GEO’S GOT POI POWER
Looking for a particular point of interest? With Mobile Geo, you have the world’s most powerful POI and intuitive mobile search engine at your fingertips. Mobile Geo is the one and only GPS mobile software solution that, in addition to the traditional search criteria such as name, street, City, and web address, allows you to search for points of interests in a specific direction of travel. - GEO IS INDEPENDENT
With Mobile Geo, no data plan? No problem. Because all of Mobile Geo’s active mapping and POI information is stored directly on your mobile phone, there is absolutely no need to pay for a wireless provider data plan. When you’ve got Geo and built-in or external GPS receiver, you’ve got all you need. - GEO WILL MOVE WHEN YOU WANT IT
TO
Code Factory has implemented its User Centered Licensing policy into Mobile Geo. So, when you’re ready to move to another mobile phone or wireless device, Geo will move with you, for free. - GEO KEEPS COUNT FOR YOU
With its onboard pedometer, Mobile Geo will count the distance you travel, so you don’t have to. - GEO WILL CONTACT YOU
With the new Mobile Geo Contact interface, not only can you lookup and call those listed in your phone’s Contacts List, but you can also set the Contact’s address as a destination or virtual position. - GEO LETS YOU DABBLE WITH THE
DETAILS
When you open a POI’s Details Screen, Mobile Geo lets you act on its information such as dialing its telephone number, sending an email, or browsing to its web page. - GEO KEEPS YOU WARM
Engage Mobile Geo’s “Getting Warmer” function to gage the remaining distance and direction-heading to a specific destination or street. - GEO LETS YOU SET THE STANDARD
Mobile Geo lets you set your preferred settings like never before. Quickly and easily modify the look and feel of your Mobile Geo experience by customizing everything from sounds and vibration to adjusting the announcement distance for approach and arrival. - GEO REMEMBERS YOUR HISTORY
Avoid missing important navigation alerts because of ambient noise, SMS notifications, calendar reminders, or incoming telephone calls by using Mobile Geo’s “Announcement History” feature. Engaging this robust navigation tool insures that you will never again miss a step, turn, or route instruction as you travel from place-to-place. - GEO LETS YOU SWITCH
Because Mobile Geo is a Windows Mobile application, you can switch between the two wireless signal networks, GSM and CDMA. Note that in the USA, AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile are the major GSM wireless providers while Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are the major CDMA wireless providers. - GEO LETS YOU BUY MAPS AS A
BUNDLE
With Mobile Geo, you can purchase maps for 15 European countries, as a map bundle, for only 60 USD. For more information, visit:
http://www.senderogroup.com/shopmgeo.htm - GEO LETS YOU TRY A TRIAL
Want to test-drive Mobile Geo? It’s so easy! Simply follow the instructions at:
http://www.codefactory.es/additional_docs/en/MG/MG_get_a_trial.html - GEO’S WAITING FOR YOU
Purchasing Mobile Geo is only the first step in becoming a member of Team Geo. Code Factory is the only accessible Mobile GPS navigation software developer committed to cultivating a world-class, real-life, on-demand customer-based support system. When you’re ready, apply to become a Mobile Geo Beta Tester, an Email ListServe contributor or even a Mobile Geo script developer. Team Geo is right here, waiting for you.