[Md-sligo] FW: Using voice commands to manage email and texting -- Voice Assist -- Saturday, July 23 at Rockville Library

[Brown, Debbie]

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From: MCPL DRCINFO [mailto:drcinfo at montgomerycountymd.gov] 
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 7:10 PM
To: Brown, Debbie
Subject: Using voice commands to manage email and texting -- Voice Assist -- Saturday, July 23 at Rockville Library

This month's Saturday Adaptive Technology Session presents a possible alternative to a smart phone. Voice Assist is a subscription service that provides hands-free texting and other services for regular and cell phones.  Voice Assist <http://www.voiceassist.com/homeform.aspx>  will be the focus of a presentation and demonstration by Carl Schmitt, at the Rockville Memorial Library on Saturday, July 23 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.  The Voice Assist system works through any phone by voice command to:

-  send and receive email

-  find sent or received emails 

-  check a calendar

-  get travel directions

-  locate people and places

And more! 

 

Presentation, demonstration and some hands-on experience. Free and open to the public, no registration is required.  For more information, and to request ADA accommodations (5 working days in advance), call 240-777-0001.

 

Saturday, July 23, 1 - 3 p.m.

Rockville Memorial Library

21 Maryland Ave., Rockville 20852

 

Directions to the Rockville Memorial Library are on this webpage: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/Libraries/branchinfo/ro.asp#dirs.  

 

SPONSORED BY THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES