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Mobile Phone for the Blind

Posted by michael on from the ringtone dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Owasys - a Spanish company - is launching a mobile phone for the blind next week. No visual display as a speech synthesiser reads everything that appears on the screen out loud. Also speaks the name and number of incoming callers."

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  1. Done before... by admbws · · Score: 4, Informative

    BTexact did something similar ages ago (SMS for the blind, actually).

  2. No visual display... by mphase · · Score: 2, Informative

    "No visual display as a speech synthesiser reads everything that appears on the screen out loud." The device doesn't have a display because everything is read out via a speech synthesiser...or does it actually have a screen... Poor writing, sloppy editing.

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    vampirical
  3. Deaf enabled phone by SWroclawski · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, my girlfriend is deaf and carries a cell phone. It works pretty well.

    She has one of those T-Mobile Sidekick ones where you connect the Internet (web browser, AIM, and even an available SSH client).

    It's actually quite useful. She can get her email, AIM and SMS messages in one place. There are even AIM -> TTY services so she can make "voice" calls on the road.

    It's still a phone too. So if there's some sort of emergency and a hearing person is there- they could use it.

    - Serge