[nabs-l] [Blindtlk] Fwd: Code Factory releases TV Speak in the USA

Fri Jun 24 13:01:23 UTC 2011

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From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
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Caroline Ragot - Marketing
<mailto:marketing at codefactory.es>marketing at codefactory.es

TV Speak US

Code Factory releases TV Speak in the USA

New Windows-based software to make digital television accessible!

For Immediate Release

Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, June 22nd, 2011

Code Factory is proud to announce the release in
the USA of its new software application, TV
Speak.  After almost a decade making mobile
phones accessible to the blind and visually
impaired, Code Factory has decided to move from
small to big screen and expand its expertise in accessibility to 
television.

TV Speak is an application to be installed on a
computer equipped to receive a digital
television signal.  Through speech output and
magnification, TV Speak allows people who are
blind or have low vision to use the most common
functionality of digital terrestrial television in a fully 
accessible way.

“The way people watch television is changing.  In
the near future we will all use television to
access the web and consume multimedia content
and digital information.  Blind people cannot be
left out of this new world of possibilities.
Therefore television has to be accessible and TV
Speak is our first contribution in this field”
explains Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory’s CEO.

With TV Speak people who are blind or have low vision can:
    * Access the Electronic Program Guide (EPG).
    * While watching TV, consult information
 about the current or next program.
    * Select audio channels to choose one providing an audio 
description.
    * Schedule and record programs (image +
 audio, or audio only) based on the EPG information.
    * Tune and order television and radio channels.
    * Configure both television and TV Speak parameters.
    * Enable parental control settings.
    * Execute basic TV operations such as change channel, adjust 
volume, etc.

To use TV Speak you need a computer running
Windows (Windows 7, Vista or XP), a TV tuner
card, and a TV antenna cable adapted for digital
terrestrial television (either portable or that
plugs into a TV socket).  The tuner will make the
connection between your computer and the TV
antenna.  One side of the tuner has a USB port to
plug into your computer and the other side has a
plug to connect to the antenna.  In other words,
the TV antenna cable is connected to the TV
tuner, which in turn is connected to the PC via
a USB port.  In this way you can watch TV through
your computer and you don’t actually need to use
your television screen.  However if you wish you
can direct the audio and video output of TV
Speak to your TV monitor and use a wireless keyboard to control 
the TV.

TV Speak is a product that Code Factory has been
developing in partnership with ONCE, the Spanish
national association for the blind.

When you install TV Speak for the first time, it
will automatically work for 30 days for free.
Once the demo expires, you will be asked for a
license number.  To purchase TV Speak in the US,
please contact HandyTech North America by email
at <mailto:info at handytech.us>info at handytech.us
or by phone at 651-636-5184.  You can also visit
the HandyTech North America webpage at
<http://www.handytech.us/>http://www.handytech.us/.
For any questions about TV Speak, feel free to
send an email to info at handytech.us.

If this summer you are attending the NFB and ACB
conventions, stop by the HandyTech North America
booth, ask Earle to show you TV Speak in action
and enter in the drawing to win free licenses.

For more information about TV Speak visit
<http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=416>http://www.code
factory..es/en/products.asp?id=416

About Code Factory

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in 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 screen readers, screen
magnifiers, and Braille interfaces for the
widest range of mainstream mobile devices.  Among
Code Factory's customers are well known
organizations for the blind such as ONCE, and
carriers such as AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, SFR,
TIM and Vodafone.  Since 2010, Code Factory also
provides solutions to make television accessible
to the blind and visually impaired.

About HandyTech North America

Founded in 2005, Handy Tech North America is a
Minneapolis-based company that is owned and
operated by business professionals with visual
impairments.  In addition to our own innovative
and cost-effective blindness and low vision
solutions, we distribute cutting-edge products
for some of the best-known companies in the
assistive technology industry.  Handy Tech North
America also offers customized assistive
technology training and consulting services to
organizations and individuals throughout the United States and 
Canada.

For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:

Code Factory, S.L., Rambla d'Egara 148 2-2, 08221 Terrassa 
(Barcelona)
<http://www.codefactory.cat/helpdesk/>HelpDesk, 
www.codefactory.es
Code Factory, S.L.  - 2011

send an email to
<mailto:marketing at codefactory.es>marketing at codefactory.es
for any request related to the Code Factory's news.

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