[nfbcs] Fwd: Code Factory releases TV Speak in the USA

[David Andrews]

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>Caroline Ragot - Marketing
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>TV Speak US
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>Code Factory releases TV Speak in the USA
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>New Windows-based software to make digital television accessible!
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>For Immediate Release
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>Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, June 22nd, 2011
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>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.
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>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.
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>“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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>TV Speak is a product that Code Factory has been 
>developing in partnership with ONCE, the Spanish 
>national association for the blind.
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>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.
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>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.
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>For more information about TV Speak visit 
><http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=416>http://www.codefactory.es/en/products.asp?id=416 
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>About Code Factory
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>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.
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>About HandyTech North America
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>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.
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>For more information, feel free to contact Code Factory S.L.:
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>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
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><mailto:marketing at codefactory.es>marketing at codefactory.es 
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