That Braille Connect is about $5000. A nice little display that will work
with say a KNFB reader phone or another phone, but I think there are a few
phones that support it.
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SM (in braille)S
> It's possible already, although quite expensive, to bluetooth connect -
> say - a Braille Connect or a braillino braille display to a cellphone
> and have it read text messages in braille.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:25 PM
> Subject: [VICUG-L] Fw: [MSS] NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO READ
> SMS
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> Hi all,
> Just got this in my box 2 minutes ago!!!
> This is awesome. If any of you have any of these phones and try this
> application out, let us know how you like it. I wonder if it will also
> read text documents using a phone's word processor?
> Harry
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: Julio
> To: Mobile Speak/Magnifier Smartphone Users List
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:40 PM
> Subject: [MSS] NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO READ SMS
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>
> I don't know about this, but some of you might find it interesting.
>
>
> NOKIA PAVES THE WAY FOR THE BLIND TO READ SMS
> Mumbai, September 22, 2009
> DNA
>
> Although mobile phones have been a great communicating aid for the
> blind, there was one aspect in which they were quite useless. Text
> messaging.
>
> But now, ~, known for their cutting-edge software
> research, have come up with a cell phone version of Braille, the
> script the visually impaired can understand.
>
> Called Nokia Braille Reader, the application -- released on September
> 17 -- was developed in collaboration with the Finnish Federation of
> the Visually Impaired and Tampere University.
>
> The application is available for the Nokia N97, 5800 XpressMusic, N97
> mini, 5530, 5230 and X6 models. What it does is to transform an SMS
> into a set of vibrations corresponding with the symbols of the Braille
> script. The symbols can be understood by the strength of the
> vibration.
>
> Nokia's latest innovation is the first that lets a blind person read
> an SMS privately. Previous solutions entailed the handset rendering a
> message through voice -- not a very personal experience.
>
>
>
>
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