[Nfbktad] TV Speak

[Kevin Pearl]

How to watch live described TV on a computer
As the accessible Netflix project continues to advocate for an accessible Netflix by making connections behind the scenes a lot of readers have been asking if there’s a way that they can watch live described TV on their PC. We have not found a solution for a Mac.

You’d have to download a program that’s called TV Speak.

There is a product called TV Speak, by Code Factory, which allows you to access the SAP channel sound via your PC without a TV.

TV Speak is an application that is installed on a computer which is equipped to receive the TV signal through a tuner card. This application allows the blind or visually impaired to use the most common functionality of digital television in an accessible way.

All text content offered by digital television is verbalized by Acapela speech synthesis, so TV Speak reads aloud texts such as the information from a program, the setup menus or the complete guide to the television programs. To control the TV remotely you have to use the computer keyboard on which you installed TV Speak and for more comfort you can do it with a wireless keyboard.

TV Speak is a product developed in collaboration with ONCE-CIDAT

To use TV Speak, you need a computer with Windows 7, Vista or XP operating system, and a TV socket.

Apart from the computer, you will need:

A TV tuner card. For example AVerTVHD Volar MAX, found at

http://www.avermedia-usa.com//AVerTV/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=472

The tuner will make the connection between your computer and the TV antenna. One side has a USB port to plug into a computer and on the other side has a plug to connect the antenna. In other words, the TV antenna cable which comes from the wall is connected to the TV tuner, which in turn is connected to the PC via a USB port.

To learn more about TV Speak visit

http://www.codefactory.es/tvspeak/index_en.html
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