[Blindtlk] Fwd: Mobile Speak 5.6 for Symbian is now available

Thu Jul 28 15:04:56 UTC 2011

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>Caroline Ragot - Marketing
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>Mobile Speak 5.6 for Symbian
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>Mobile Speak 5.6 for Symbian is now available
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>Support for Nokia Internet Radio, global copy & 
>paste shortcuts, support for emoticons, support 
>for Catalan language, support for new firmware versions and more
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>Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, July 28th, 2011
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>This might be a record in the history of Code 
>Factory development, only three and a half weeks 
>to provide its users with a new feature-packed 
>update of Mobile Speak. It seems that this year 
>the seasons are reversed, summer time is Christmas time!
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>“One day after sending V5.5 to sign to the 
>Symbian test house, Nokia launched an updated 
>firmware version for many popular devices and 
>some of our accessibility got broken. We were 
>attending the NFB convention in Orlando a couple 
>of days later and everyone was waiting for this 
>new version of Mobile Speak supporting new 
>devices and featuring new functionality. We 
>didn’t know at that time how long it would take 
>us to support this new firmware so we preferred 
>not to postpone the release of V5.5,” explained 
>Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory’s CEO. “Therefore 
>right after releasing V5.5 our development team 
>put all their efforts into supporting the new 
>firmware updates, but they went further than 
>that. One more time, they reviewed the list of 
>features requested by our users and beta 
>testers, picked up a few of them and added more functionality to this update.”
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>Main highlights of Mobile Speak 5.6 are:
>    * Support for new firmware versions which 
> were released in June 2011 on the following 9.3 
> and 5th edition devices: C5-00, E5, E52, E72, 
> 6700 slide, C6-00, C5-03, 5230, 5235, 5250, 
> 5530, 5800, X6, N97 mini. Specific items which 
> changed in this firmware and which now work 
> correctly again are: Web browser, Email, 
> Built-in Help screens, Standby screen's 
> horizontal shortcut list and Symbol table.
>    * Support for Nokia Internet Radio: Internet 
> Radio is a free application which allows you to 
> listen to radio stations from all over the 
> world via the Internet. It is supported on a 
> wide range of devices, from Symbian 9.1 through 
> to the latest Symbian Anna phones. It comes 
> pre-installed on many devices (check inside the 
> Music, Radio or Applications folders), while on 
> others it will need to be installed. Since it 
> uses the Internet, make sure that you either 
> have a WLAN connection active or are using a 
> data plan, to avoid data charges. Stations can 
> be browsed by many categories including type of 
> music, language, country or popularity. 
> Favorite stations can be saved so that they can easily be accessed later.
>    * Global copy and paste shortcuts: Mobile 
> Speak v5.60 adds new commands for Copy (Command 
> + 6 from the Default layout) and Paste (Command 
> + Long 6 from the Default layout). The Copy 
> command will copy the last spoken text, as 
> determined in the list of the last 5 texts 
> spoken in Command + *. You therefore have the 
> possibility to copy any of the last 5 items 
> spoken, simply press Command + * until you hear 
> the desired text, and then press Command + 6 
> for this text to be copied. You can then move 
> to any writable edit field (e.g. writing an SMS 
> or email, notes, address field or anywhere else 
> where you would normally write text) and press 
> Command + Long 6 to paste the text at the 
> current cursor position. This powerful tool 
> will be useful in many situations, for example 
> when copying text or links in the web browser 
> and pasting them into an email or SMS message.
>    * Support for emoticons (smileys): A large 
> number of devices from Symbian 9.3 and above 
> have built-in Emoticon support in the Messaging 
> application. Mobile Speak will now read these 
> emoticons when they are encountered when 
> reading and writing SMS messages. When writing 
> an SMS, these emoticons can be added either by 
> writing the appropriate symbols, or by using 
> the emoticon symbol table which is available on 
> these supported devices (either under the 
> Options menu, by pressing * or, on QWERTY 
> devices, by pressing the Symbol key). In 
> addition, support is also provided for a number 
> of common emoticons in all applications, even 
> on devices which do not have built-in emoticon 
> support. The list of supported emoticons, along 
> with the symbols of which they are composed, is 
> found in the 
> <http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html#_Toc299522477>Mobile 
> Speak manual.
>    * Support for the Catalan language. The 
> addition of the Acapela Catalan Laia voice and Catalan software localization.
>    * Updated Acapela Czech Eliska voice 
> package, to include patch from Acapela which 
> should fix some problems with the character C. 
> Note that no other voice packages have changed since v5.50.
>    * Many other improvements and bug fixes, as 
> detailed in our User Manual here 
> <http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html#_Toc299522483>http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html#_Toc299522483 
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>If you are a new user, download Mobile Speak 5.6 
>now at 
><http://codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=348#version_0_106>http://codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=348#version_0_106 
>and try it for 30 days for free.  If you are a 
>user of Mobile Speak 3.8 or older version and 
>wish to upgrade to Mobile Speak 5.6, contact 
>your distributor to purchase an upgrade license. 
>In addition to all the improvements and new 
>features of Mobile Speak 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, 5.5 
>and 5.6, if you purchase an upgrade license, you 
>will also get Mobile Magnifier, Mobile DAISY 
>Player, Color Recognizer  and the Games for 
>free! To consult the complete list of Code 
>Factory’s official distributors, visit 
>http://www.codefactory.es/en/page.asp?id=351
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>To learn how to install or upgrade to a latest 
>version of Mobile Speak, please consult the user 
>guide at 
>http://www.codefactory.es/download.asp?file=family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html 
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>About Code Factory
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>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 accessible mobile 
>applications such as screen readers, screen 
>magnifiers, and Braille interfaces. Code 
>Factory’s products are compatible with the 
>widest range of mainstream mobile devices 
>running on Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry 
>Smartphones, and Android. Among Code Factory's 
>customers are well known organizations for the 
>blind such as ONCE in Spain, and carriers such 
>as AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, SFR, TIM and Vodafone.
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>For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:
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