Program Description:

Nuance TALKS™ converts the display text of a cellular handset into highly intelligible speech, making the device completely accessible for blind and visually impaired people.
Nuance TALKS runs on Symbian-powered mobile phones to speech-enable contact names, callerID, text messages, help files and other screen content. 

Running on Symbian™ Series 60 phones, Nuance TALKS converts the displayed text on the mobile handset into highly intelligible speech. With Nuance TALKS, blind and low-vision users can take advantage of most features, including contact directories, caller ID, text messages, help files, access to the Nokia web browser, and other screen content, available on their mobile phones.

NEW! TALKS&ZOOMS now fully support the Nokia web browser for S60 3rd Edition, with virtual browsing, and quick keys to find certain web elements fast, like headings or links.

NEW! Nuance now offers a completely new text-to-speech technology, called Vocalizer for Mobile. All TALKS users, who have purchased a license for RealSpeak Mobile, can use the respective Vocalizer for Mobile voices free of charge!

NEW! Talks 3.52 improves the usabilities of Wayfinder Access, a navigation package that facilitates the everyday life of the visually impaired. Please note that Wayfinder Access version 2.0 has just been released, with a number of new and exciting functions.

NEW! Our SMS News service allows to keep yourself up-to-date about products offered by Nuance or our distributors. You can subscribe or unsubscribe from within the TALKS&ZOOMS application, or by simply sending an SMS. Please find more details in our Release Notification.

NEW! TALKS&ZOOMS support the newest Nokia handsets, like the Nokia E51, E90, N81, N82 / N82 8GB, and N95 8GB!

Key Benefits

• Screen reader with adjustable volume and speaking rate.
• Support for over 20 languages.
• With the latest 3.5 version, TALKS is now fully compatible with the Wayfinder Access application, providing navigation functionality to any sight-impaired person.
• Plus, Nuance TALKS Premium Edition provides a user dictionary the ability to label icons with a corresponding text equivalent, as well as the new Object Viewer, to improve access to built-in as well as 3rd-party applications.

Key Features

• Unprecedented Feature/Function Accessibility
• Audio feedback when writing or reading text messages, emails, and notes
• Automatic or manual Caller ID announcement
• Network, battery, and other status indicators read out
• Spelling speed setting
  Allows the user to define different speech rates for normal read-out and spelling text.
• Various options for reading numbers Numbers longer than four digits can now be read as single digits, double digits, or whole numbers.
• Echo mode
  An independent setting allows the user to turn on a special key echo mode for those who like to use the T9 dictionary when entering text.
• Echo Passwords mode
  Allows the user to hear the letters entered into a password field.
• TALKS Key Timeout and TALKS Mode Timeout
  Allows the user to set a timeout for cases where the TALKS key is pressed accidentally, and allow to repeat a command or even execute different commands without Pressing the TALKS key again.
• Hear caller ID information
  Adds speech output to the original user interface of the cell phone.
• Software only No additional hardware is needed.
• Voice Familiarity for Increased User Comfort
  Nuance TALKS leverages ETI-Eloquence TTS software— used in popular desktop screen readers—making many users feel instantly familiar with the voice they hear for speech output.
  
• Control over volume and speaking rate
• Supports many third-party applications
  Supports IM+ (Instant Messenger) [S60], the Wayfinder GPS application [S60], and the Slovoed dictionary [S60 and S80].
• Full Integration with Wayfinder Access

Premium Edition

Nuance TALKS Premium Edition for Symbian Series 60 and Series 80 phones is a package consisting of the following components:br>

• Nuance TALKS Version 3.5 Standard Edition
• Nuance TALKS screen reader, same installer and binaries for the Standard and Premium Editions
• A TTS engine
• Premium Edition extras
• Dictionary
• Icon labeller
• Object viewer
• Special Premium Edition serial number that enables premium features in the Nuance TALKS screen reader

Key Benefits

• Provides speech output of text displayed on a mobile phone to allow blind or visually impaired users to benefit from the full functionality of the device.
• Uses state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) technology with adjustable volume and speaking rate for maximum intelligibility.
• Allows to customize the pronunciation of words or abbreviations with a user dictionary.


• Enhances application accessibility by allowing the user to label icons.
• Shows the structure of the display content with the Object Viewer.
• Optionally automates the read-out of the caller ID and text messages.
• Provides access to mobile phone functionality by linking with supported Braille input/output devices via a Bluetooth® connection.
• Integrates with the screen magnification capabilities of Nuance ZOOMS™ for low-vision users.

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