SA's first speaking cellphone launched |
Vodacom has unveiled South Africa's first initiative to make cellular communications accessible to all South Africans, especially people with disabilities. The "Speaking Phone" initiative was launched under the theme: "Specific Needs". The phone enables blind people to access voice and text services via text-to-speech technology. The group has also established a call centre that will be accessible to people with specific needs or disabilities.
The service is available for both pre-paid and contract subscribers. The speaking phone — a Nokia 6600 handset with text-to-speech software — allows blind and partially blind users access to data services via audible display.
It boasts user-friendly yet advanced technology encompassing text messages (SMSs), phone book entries, and indicates battery life and signal strength.
The handset is valued at a cash retail price of around R3000 for pre-paid subscribers while it costs R135 per month for contract users.
Vodacom chose this particular handset (Nokia 6600) because of its size, shape and screen.
"The communications revolution that has changed the lives of some 20 million South African cellular customers over the past decade has gone largely unnoticed by the several million South Africans living with disabilities and who would potentially benefit most from this technology,"
Vodacom Group's Chief Communications Officer Mthobi Tyamzashe said at the launch of the initiative which was attended by a number of people with specific needs and their organisations.
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