Talks vs. Talks premium?

[Stephen Giggar]

Hear is some examples you can do with the graphic labeler in the Talks premium license. The N82 has 
many icons that are not defined by Nuance. I have created some icon files that I have sent to people 
Like Jonathan and Neil who say they are helpful.

Some of the icons are for the Signal strength of a wireless access point and if it is secured. Also 
the calendar in the TODo items ware you can set priority and in the other areas of the calendar ware 
their is a alarm, repeats, and the type of event the item is. In the Log detail ware their are 
Incoming, Outgoing, and missed activity.

So on the N82 and other phones using the Talks Icon labeler you can make the phone much more usable. 
Granted it takes some trial and error as far as trying to determine what a icon is, but well worth 
it when your done.

The App. Specific settings is another good thing about the premium license. This is ware you can 
tell Talks to behave differently when you go into a program from what it does in some other place. 
Example: You normally leave the Full list items set to YES. But when using the Nokia Audio book 
player. Talks will not read the books/Chapter list. So you need to change the Full list items to NO. 
You can do that with the App. Specific setting and not affect any other program on the phone but 
that one.

The dictionary Again you can set it up as a global one or as a App. Specific one. Lets use a example 
of a App. Specific one. On 3rd Edition phones, You have the normal Standby screen and then when you 
press a number; It changes to the Telephone screen. Well with Talks when this normally happens it 
will reread the whole screen on the first press of a number. Using the dictionary: You can keep most 
and all the extra information from being spoken depending on the profile being used. Example: I use 
AT&T as my cell provider and I have a profile I call Work for when I'm at work. Now normally if I 
press a key I would hear the phone wake up from the screen saver mode and read the cell provider and 
then Work being that is the profile that I'm using. Then when I press the first digit of a Telephone 
number; I would hear my cell provider and then Work followed by Text and then the number I pressed. 
Using the dictionary, I can cause all of that not to be spoken accept for the number that was 
pressed. So I would press a number to get the phone to go into the Telephone screen. Then I would 
then add AT&T, Work and Text to the dictionary and only assign it to the Telephone program and leave 
the replace with empty. Then after I have saved that; I can just press a digit and only hear that 
digit and none of the other stuff.

With the Talks standard that is provided by some cell providers; You can do none of the above.

Oh! as far as the dictionary; You can do very good things with it. Example: I have told people how 
they can change the normal profile on the phones using the Talks dictionary to say Tuesday February 
12th 2008 instead of hearing Tu 02/12/2008.

Signed: Stephen Giggar
sgiggar at sbcglobal.net
Skype: dr-phone.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Scholes" <jamesscholes at msn.com>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Talks vs. Talks premium?


> The premium edition offers a pronunciation dictionary, and also allows you
> to label icons or graphics, a bit like in jaws or window eyes for a pc where
> you can tell the screen reader what something is so that it will read it
> properly. In addition to this, some dealers offer extra applications for
> your phone, like best voice recorder, along with Talks premium. An example
> of a dealer who does this is http://www.comproom.co.uk
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "James Fetter" <jfetter at nd.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:37 PM
> To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
> Subject: Talks vs. Talks premium?
>
>> Dear All,
>> If anyone has used both the standard and Premium editions of Talks and
>> can give me a more solid idea of the real differences in capabilities
>> between them, I would greatly appreciate it.  The Nuance website
>> mentions a few features in the Premium but not in the Standard edition,
>> but on the whole their description is vague and doesn't seem to justify
>> upgrading to premium.  Thanks.
>> Best,
>> James
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