1 DAISY support in the Nuance Accessibility Suite by Torsten Brand

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DAISY support in theNuance Accessibility Suite

by Torsten Brand

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Nuance Accessibility Suite

ZOOMS

• S60 3rd Edition

• S60 2nd Edition

Daisy2go

• S60 3rd Edition

TALKS

• S60 3rd Edition

• S60 2nd Edition

• Windows Mobile

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Nuance TALKS - Screen reader for mobile phones

• Add text-to-speech to standard phone UI

• ETI Eloquence, RealSpeak Mobile, Vocalizer Mobile

• Dial numbers, use contacts, text messaging, web access, and much more

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Nuance ZOOMS - Magnifier for mobile phones

• Magnifies display up to 16x

• Auto-scroll, inverted colours, grey-scale

• Works hand in hand with TALKS

• Very easy to use, focus tracking with free navigation

Screenshot of Zooms, distributed views (200%)

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Nuance Daisy2go - DAISY player for mobile phones

• DAISY text+audio book player• Supports DAISY spec 2.02• DAISY 3.0 soon• Audio, text, text+audio

• Bookmarks, adjustable playback speed, easy operation

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Nuance Daisy2go - Benefits

• No extra hardware– Mobile phone as an "Accessibility Swiss Army Knife"

• Take advantage of mainstream developments– Phone manufacturers keep improving their devices

• Cost effective– Daisy2go is free for Nuance Accessibility Suite users

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Nuance Daisy2go – Navigation Features

• Table of content– Tree or list structure

• Move by– Heading level 1 to 6

– Page

– Text block

– Phrase

– Bookmark

• Jump to– Page, Time, Percentage

• Bookmarking– List of bookmarks

– Optional auto-resume

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Nuance Daisy2go - Audio features

• Adjustable volume

• Adjustable playback speed

• Tape-recorder like cueing– Between 2x and 16x– Optional beep for headings– Optional beep for pages

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Nuance Daisy2go - Text Features

• Synchronization of text and audio– Highlight currently read text

• Adjustable text size

• Adjustable colours– Text colour and background– Highlight colour and background

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Nuance Daisy2go - Other Features

• Book Info– Creator, Publisher, narrator– Format, Generator– Pages, Duration– Etc.

• DAISY-fy– Play other audio content with Daisy2go– Structure by author, album, title