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From: "Caroline Ragot" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 8:57 AM
Subject: Mobile Speak 5.6 for Symbian is now available
Mobile Speak 5.6 for Symbian is now available Support for Nokia Internet
Radio, global copy & paste shortcuts, support for emoticons, support for
Catalan language, support for new firmware versions and more
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, July 28th, 2011
This might be a record in the history of Code Factory development, only
three and a half weeks to provide its users with a new feature-packed update
of Mobile Speak. It seems that this year the seasons are reversed, summer
time is Christmas time!
“One day after sending V5.5 to sign to the Symbian test house, Nokia
launched an updated firmware version for many popular devices and some of
our accessibility got broken. We were attending the NFB convention in
Orlando a couple of days later and everyone was waiting for this new version
of Mobile Speak supporting new devices and featuring new functionality. We
didn’t know at that time how long it would take us to support this new
firmware so we preferred not to postpone the release of V5.5,” explained
Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory’s CEO. “Therefore right after releasing V5.5
our development team put all their efforts into supporting the new firmware
updates, but they went further than that. One more time, they reviewed the
list of features requested by our users and beta testers, picked up a few of
them and added more functionality to this update.”
Main highlights of Mobile Speak 5.6 are:
- *Support for new firmware versions* which were released in June 2011 on
the following 9.3 and 5th edition devices: C5-00, E5, E52, E72, 6700
slide,
C6-00, C5-03, 5230, 5235, 5250, 5530, 5800, X6, N97 mini. Specific items
which changed in this firmware and which now work correctly again are:
Web
browser, Email, Built-in Help screens, Standby screen's horizontal
shortcut
list and Symbol table.
- *Support for Nokia Internet Radio*: Internet Radio is a free
application which allows you to listen to radio stations from all over
the
world via the Internet. It is supported on a wide range of devices, from
Symbian 9.1 through to the latest Symbian Anna phones. It comes
pre-installed on many devices (check inside the Music, Radio or
Applications
folders), while on others it will need to be installed. Since it uses the
Internet, make sure that you either have a WLAN connection active or are
using a data plan, to avoid data charges. Stations can be browsed by many
categories including type of music, language, country or popularity.
Favorite stations can be saved so that they can easily be accessed later.
- *Global copy and paste shortcuts*: Mobile Speak v5.60 adds new commands
for Copy (Command + 6 from the Default layout) and Paste (Command + Long
6
from the Default layout). The Copy command will copy the last spoken
text,
as determined in the list of the last 5 texts spoken in Command + *. You
therefore have the possibility to copy any of the last 5 items spoken,
simply press Command + * until you hear the desired text, and then press
Command + 6 for this text to be copied. You can then move to any writable
edit field (e.g. writing an SMS or email, notes, address field or
anywhere
else where you would normally write text) and press Command + Long 6 to
paste the text at the current cursor position. This powerful tool will be
useful in many situations, for example when copying text or links in the
web
browser and pasting them into an email or SMS message.
- *Support for emoticons (smileys)*: A large number of devices from
Symbian 9.3 and above have built-in Emoticon support in the Messaging
application. Mobile Speak will now read these emoticons when they are
encountered when reading and writing SMS messages. When writing an SMS,
these emoticons can be added either by writing the appropriate symbols,
or
by using the emoticon symbol table which is available on these supported
devices (either under the Options menu, by pressing * or, on QWERTY
devices,
by pressing the Symbol key). In addition, support is also provided for a
number of common emoticons in all applications, even on devices which do
not
have built-in emoticon support. The list of supported emoticons, along
with
the symbols of which they are composed, is found in the Mobile Speak
manual<http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html#_Toc299522477>.
- *Support for the Catalan language*. The addition of the Acapela Catalan
Laia voice and Catalan software localization.
- *Updated Acapela Czech Eliska voice package*, to include patch from
Acapela which should fix some problems with the character C. Note that no
other voice packages have changed since v5.50.
- Many other improvements and bug fixes, as detailed in our User Manual
here
http://www.codefactory.es/descargas/family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html#_Toc299522483
If you are a new user, download Mobile Speak 5.6 now at
http://codefactory.es/en/downloads.asp?id=348#version_0_106 and try it for
30 days for free. If you are a user of Mobile Speak 3.8 or older version
and wish to upgrade to Mobile Speak 5.6, contact your distributor to
purchase an upgrade license. In addition to all the improvements and new
features of Mobile Speak 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, 5.5 and 5.6, if you purchase an
upgrade license, you will also get Mobile Magnifier, Mobile DAISY Player,
Color Recognizer and the Games for free! To consult the complete list of
Code Factory’s official distributors,
visithttp://www.codefactory.es/en/page.asp?id=351
To learn how to install or upgrade to a latest version of Mobile Speak,
please consult the user guide
athttp://www.codefactory.es/download.asp?file=family_4/ms56_userguide_symbian.html
About Code Factory
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Terrassa (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 accessible mobile applications such as screen readers, screen magnifiers,
and Braille interfaces. Code Factory’s products are compatible with the
widest range of mainstream mobile devices running on Symbian, Windows
Mobile, BlackBerry Smartphones, and Android. Among Code Factory's customers
are well known organizations for the blind such as ONCE in Spain, and
carriers such as AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, SFR, TIM and Vodafone.
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