I agree with you. My late husband had a phone one time that used mobile 
speaks, and I thought it was horrible. The program kept crashing. He only 
had the phone about a year too, and at that time mobile speak cost money, it 
wasn't free.

Carolyn Kj4vt


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From: "Eric Oyen" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 12:53 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Re Screen Reader with a Windows phone

> having experienced both Mobile Speak (on 3 differing versions of windows =
> smart phones), I can tell you that it can't even compare to voiceover on =
> any of apples devices. Some of its features are straight forward enough, =
> but Microsoft makes it difficult to really operate their phones. My last =
> smartphone had windows 7 CE on it and that was a major frustration just =
> trying to work around some of the apps. I can't tell you whether or not =
> windows 8 is any better on an MS based smartphone, but I can tell you it =
> was a disaster on a laptop. Jaws would only work with about 30% of the =
> apps installed with windows.=20
>
> Anyway, I would much rather use either voiceover on a mac or one of the =
> alternative speech engines available in Linux. I have had my fill of MS =
> and their kludge of an interface.
>
> -eric
>
> On May 25, 2014, at 12:45 PM, carolyn johnson wrote:
>
>> Mobile speaks has it's drawbacks, especially in a windows phone.
>>=20
>> Carolyn Kj4vt
>>=20
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>> From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 3:02 PM
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re Screen Reader with a Windows phone
>>=20
>>> Bob:
>>>=20
>>> You might want to look at the Code Factory who make a product called=20=
>
>>> Mobile Speak.
>>> Be careful though, Android and Windows gotta a long way to go to 
>>> beat=20=
>
>>> Apple's accessibility. You might not like Apple and like me, you may =
> not=20
>>> like being told you can only use one product but sometimes it is what =
> it=20
>>> is.
>>> Last I looked at Mobile Speak, it was a screen reader with 10 built =
> in=20
>>> accessible apps and anything else installed after the fact, didn't =
> work.=20
>>> My XYL has the iPhone 5C and to tell you the truth, when Voice Over=20=
>
>>> running, it was a little quicker than LG Nexus 5,which as the Krait =
> quad=20
>>> core 2.3GHZ processor, faster than the Apples 1.6 Duel core, =
> supposedly.=20
>>> LOL but I didn't think so.
>>>=20
>>> 73:
>>> Mike VO1AX=20