• Description
• Supported phones
• Manuals and resources

• Screen reader with adjustable volume and speaking rate.
• Support for over 20 languages.
• TALKS is now fully compatible with the Wayfinder Access application, providing navigation functionality to any sight-impaired person.
• Plus, Nuance TALKS Premium Edition provides a user dictionary the ability to label icons with a corresponding text equivalent, as well as the new Object Viewer, to improve access to built-in as well as 3rd-party applications.
• Audio feedback when writing or reading text messages, emails, and notes
• Automatic or manual Caller ID announcement
• Network, battery, and other status indicators read out
• Spelling speed setting. Allows the user to define different speech rates for normal read-out and spelling text.
• Various options for reading numbers. Numbers longer than four digits can now be read as single digits, double digits, or whole numbers.
• Echo mode. An independent setting allows the user to turn on a special key echo mode for those who like to use the T9 dictionary when entering text.
• Echo Passwords mode. Allows the user to hear the letters entered into a password field.
• TALKS Key Timeout and TALKS Mode Timeout. Allows the user to set a timeout for cases where the TALKS key is pressed accidentally, and allow to repeat a command or even execute different commands without Pressing the TALKS key again.

Nuance TALKS leverages ETI-Eloquence TTS software— used in popular desktop screen readers—making many users feel instantly familiar with the voice they hear for speech output.

Following is a list of phones supported by Talks/Zooms in our database. Select a phone to find out more information or obtain links to purchase.

These resources are provided as a service and are not created by Accessible Phones. Links open in a new window.

• Talk Me Through It: A Review of Two Cell Phone-based Screen Readers - AccessWorld
• Expanding the View: A Review of Mobile Magnifier and ZOOMS Screen Magnifiers for Cell Phones - AccessWorld
• Expanding the View: A Review of Mobile Magnifier and ZOOMS Screen Magnifiers for Cell Phones - AccessWorld
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