View Tech Chat 49 – ATIA 2010 Highlights and More Via Accessible Event

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In Podcast 34, we begin by hearing the first public demo of the

Blio Reader for the PC and iPhone to Offer One Million Text and Audio Books.

Michael lauf and Ricky enger discuss highlights from

ATIA 2010,

including Serotek’s latest product they call

AE Hotspot.

We spoke with GW Micro about the announcement that owners of the

Booksense can now download and listen to SAMNet content.

We spoke with Michel Pepin from Humanware about the release of

Oratio Screen Reader for blackberry PDA Devices.

And we finished with two interviews from ATIA:

Mobilespeak 4 from codeFactory providing access to touch screens on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones

and Nuance Talks 4.5 for Symbian Series 60 phones.

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 34 – Blio Reader, Booksense Supports SAMNet content, Oratio for the Blackberry, Mobilespeak 4, and Talks 4.5

ATIA 2010

held in Orlando Florida

Adaptive Switch labs

American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Programs and Services

Fitness Products from A P H

Assist Touch System for A L S and ChatterVox Voice Amplifier

Demo of BookPort Plus from APH Coming in March 2010

GW Micro Announces Support for SAMNet Content in the Next BookSense Release

Click and Go Maps from In Touch Graphics Offer directions Via TTS or Telephone

EnableMart Products

EVAS (MIS) – Reader and Multi-Purpose Information system

Great Talking Box Company

HandyTech North America iRead OCR and Easy Braille Displays

Latest from Humanware as of January 28, 2010

Independent Living Aids – Kapten GPS, PenFriend Labeler, Large Display Cell Phone, Fully Talking Cordless Phone and Franklin Money Identifier

Inclusive TLC – Alternative Input Devices

Judy Lynn software – 18 Cause and Affect Applications

KNFB Reader latest Version

LevelStar Icon Update, October 2009

MacSpeech 1.58 Personal, MacSpeech Medical and MacSpeech Legal

CodeFactory Newly-Released MobileSpeak 4.0 for Windows Mobile and Symbian Phones

News-2-You Newspapers with Images Helping children Learn to Read

Two New Magnifiers from Optelec

Perkins Products – NLS Cartridges, New Braillers and Seka Braille Displays

RFBD Latest Supported Devices

Soft Touch – Software for Special Needs Children and Adults

Talks 4.5 Will Give Access to Touch Screens on Nokia Symbian Phones

TextHelp Fluency Tutor

Vizzle – 2,000 Plus Lessons with Visuals That Sizzle

ZoomText 10.0 Rewritten Will Run from USB Device in Summer 2010

By leveraging our Accessible Event platform and secure wireless networking technology, Serotek’s AE HotSpot appliance allows event participants with disabilities to access slides, Excel spreadsheets, Web pages, and Word documents using their own wireless-enabled computers and access technology in real time. With the AE HotSpot, an event can be accessed from the Internet if the event coordinator wishes, but an Internet connection is not necessary for on-site participants to have full access to the event. That’s because the AE HotSpot appliance is a completely independent WiFi access point. This allows the event coordinator and/or presenter to decide what content will and will not be available to the attendees. The self-contained nature of this appliance enables a closed, secure Intranet environment, regardless of whether Internet connectivity is available. However, where Internet connectivity is available, the event coordinator can configure the AE HotSpot appliance to provide wireless Internet access as well as access to the event. The AE HotSpot can also record all event content and publish it on a web site or intranet with no need to install additional software on the target server. This enables anyone to deploy an accessible recording of an event, even if they don’t subscribe to the Web-based Accessible Event service.

Serotek will release the AE HotSpot soon. Learn more about the AE HotSpot by watching this accessible presentation.

GW Micro Announces Support for SAMNet Content in Next BookSense Release

new MobileSpeak 4.0 for Windows Mobile and Symbian Phones

If you’re wondering which sessions to attend at this year’s conference, Serotek’s CEO, Mike Calvo, is conducting a presentation that you won’t want to miss.  “The Art of Being a Change Agent” will be presented on January 28 in the Curacao room ¾, from 1:30 to 2:30. 

When you’re not attending sessions, drop by our booth and learn how you can have access to powerful and portable assistive technology without breaking the bank.  Serotek is the first company offering you the ability to purchase screen reading technology on an as-needed basis through our “Build A Bundle” service.   Starting at just $9.95 per month, you can now have access to one license of the System Access screen reader, with additional machine licenses for only $5 per month.  Try out the System Access Mobile Network, known as SAMNet, with over 2,100 described movies, thousands of radio stations, recipes, TV shows, the Socializer for instant messaging and social networking, voice chat to meet other interesting people, web-based email, and so much more for just $9.95 per month.  For an additional $5, you can provide remote support and training to other Serotek customers, and even access your own computers remotely from anywhere!

When you’d like to carry your SAMNet content with you, you can do so by transferring it to your favorite portable device.  SAMNet supports a wide variety of audio players, allowing members to sync a wealth of content from the network including movies, email, and now, books from the National Library Service BARD program. IN addition to the Victor Reader Stream from Humanware, the Icon from Levelstar, and Braile Plus from the American Printinghouse for the Blind, SAMNet content is supported on the Plextalk Pocket. Serotek is also proud to announce that we will very soon be supporting the BookSense player from GW Micro and we’ll be demoing this upcoming support in our booth.  If you don’t yet have one of these sleek and powerful players, drop by the GW Micro booth #413 and pick one up, or visit www.gwmicro.com for more information.

Ask about Serotek’s free Keys for K-12 program, offering free portable screen reading technology for all grade school, middle school and high school students, ensuring that truly, no student gets left behind.

Serotek’s Accessible Event offers true Section 508 compliance to corporate meetings, webinars, classroom lectures and government projects.  You won’t want to miss getting a look at the very latest exciting innovation from Serotek and Accessible Event, so be sure to drop by our booth and see the technology that organizations and corporations like The Federal Communications Commission and Humanware are using to make meetings accessible to their entire staff.

If you’re not able to make it to Orlando this year, you can still keep up with the latest happenings at ATIA by putting

http://serotalk.com/feed in to your favorite RSS reader or podcatcher,

or simply by visiting http://www.serotalk.com, where we’ll be bringing you news and interviews from the show floor

The Serotek Team

View Tech Chat 48 – Internet Power Search.

Listen to Tech chat 48 – Internet Power Search, 50 Minute MP3

Navigon Mobile Navigator GPS

and their decision to remove voice navigation from pedestrian mode. We encourage everyone to

contact Navigon to tell them you want voice navigation restored to pedestrian mode in Mobile Navigator.

We also discussed:

Serotek monthly subscription packages for System Access Mobile and/or SAMNet starting at $9.95 per month

Free Accessible Event accounts, good for up to three participants, through January 31, 2010

EASI free webinar on access to Google’s Android phones on Wednesday, January 20 at 19:00 GMT or 3PM Eastern, 2PM Central or Noon Pacific

Free RFB&D keys available for use on the BookSense

Tek Talk on What was cool for blind users at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show January 18 at 8PM Eastern

NFB Access Technology Blog on the Consumer Electronics Show

RCA voice-activated remote with macros for $39 to be released this spring

We also did two segments on

Skype for Windows and the newly accessible ap for the iPhone

and finished by speaking with Dr. Robert Carter, one of fifteen staff psychologists at

Texas A&M University.

Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 33 – Skype for Windows and the iPhone, and Interview with Dr. robert Carter.

View Tech Chat 47, Serotek Build A Bundle and NLS Download Support

 Listen to Tech chat 47 – Monthly Options for Accessibility from Serotek – 31 Minutes MP3

Build A Bundle is available to Serotek customers who wish to add to their existing package, as well as to those who currently have no Serotek products or services.  The default synthesizer for the Build a Bundle offering is the DECTalk TTS engine, and Neospeech and Eloquence synthesizers are available as one-time purchases which will remain a part of your account from the purchase point forward.  For a limited time, Serotek is offering the Eloquence TTS engine for free with any Build a Bundle purchase.  For those who don’t currently wish to purchase a Build a Bundle package but would like to use the Eloquence TTS engine with Serotek’s free System Access to Go service, Eloquence may be purchased for $40, a portion of which will be donated to the Accessibility is a Right (AIR) Foundation.

Building a bundle is easy.  Existing customers may log in to their accounts through System Access to Go, or from the Serotek software installed on their computer.  Those who do not currently have an account may create one by launching

www.satogo.com

and choosing the “create a System Access to Go” account from the login screen.  Once logged on, simply choose the “my account” option by pressing the modifier key plus the letter f, followed by the letter a.  From the “my account” screen, choose the “build a Bundle” option and begin creating your customized package for affordable accessibility anywhere life takes you.

To see a list of frequently asked questions and a price list for Build a Bundle, read the Build a Bundle faq at

http://serotek.com/build-a-bundle-faq