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. 

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.
> 
> Carolyn Kj4vt
> 
> 
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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
> 
>> Bob:
>> 
>> You might want to look at the Code Factory who make a product called 
>> Mobile Speak.
>> Be careful though, Android and Windows gotta a long way to go to beat 
>> Apple's accessibility. You might not like Apple and like me, you may not 
>> like being told you can only use one product but sometimes it is what it 
>> is.
>> Last I looked at Mobile Speak, it was a screen reader with 10 built in 
>> accessible apps and anything else installed after the fact, didn't work. 
>> My XYL has the iPhone 5C and to tell you the truth, when Voice Over 
>> running, it was a little quicker than LG Nexus 5,which as the Krait quad 
>> core 2.3GHZ processor, faster than the Apples 1.6 Duel core, supposedly. 
>> LOL but I didn't think so.
>> 
>> 73:
>> Mike VO1AX