Several months ago, I purchased a product called Parrot Plus. It has a
phone book, memo area, appointment calendar, alarm, and phone dialer. It
uses voice recognition. So if you want someone's phone number, you speak
the person's name into the microphone and it locates the name or gives you a
chance to enter the information if it isn't there. As with other voice
recognition devices I have used, it seems to have trouble recognising
commands sometimes. Guess you have to say them just the right way. But it
usually works all right. It comes with braille instructions. Some of these
are a little awkward because they are translated from French I believe. It
seems to work quite well, but, as I found out recently, you don't want to
let the batteries die, or everything you have stored in memory will die,
too. For more information, visit www.voice-assistant.com. Hope this helps.
Diane Scalzi
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Subject: Electronic Organizers
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>
> Hello everyone, sorry for the cross-post but I am in need of your
> assistance.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with the Voice Mate or any other
> electronic organizer, or any other means of organizing appointments,
> scheduling, to-do lists, rolodexes, and other such things? Presently my
job
> requires me to track problems, phone calls, appointments, meetings, etc.
> The stack of Braille papers on my desk and my pc based contact manager are
> just not working for me. I find that I end up trying to mentally remember
> all the things I need to do and trying to prioritize them because I spend
so
> much time on the phone taking incoming calls as I'm required to do to meet
> my call quota.
>
> I do have a Braille'N Speak 2000 but after using it for several months
> I've discovered it's a wonderful note taker and timer but I need more then
> it can provide. I need to set alarms for reminders and appointments, I
need
> something that is intuitive and that can easily find, store, and delete
> these messages. It would also help if I could hook my pc to it for
> scheduling as my sighted friend does with his Palm Pilot.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts on this, either technical solutions, or low
> tech solutions to this problem, I would appreciate your comments. I've
> tried Outlook Express and Goldmine software, but in addition to the pc
based
> information manager, I need something I can bring with me at all times to
> function as a planner. The Braille desk calendar I used for a time solves
> part of the problem, but I always ran out of room with the things I had to
> do and of course there was no alarm function with this.<smile>
>
> The Voice Mate has a pc link, maybe this would provide what I'm
looking
> for.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> =Beth=
>
> = Beth Hatch-Alleyne=
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