[Athen] Android Phone free Webinar Jan. 20

[Prof Norm Coombs]

                 Please forgive duplications but I think this is worth sharing.

Webinar: Accessible Android Smartphones: Jan. 20 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Steve Jacobs, CEO, Apps4Android and President, IDEAL Group, Inc.
Apps4Android http://apps4android.org is an IDEAL Group subsidiary 
corporation dedicated to developing free/low-cost, high-quality, Android 
applications that enhance the quality-of-life, independence, educatability 
and employability of individuals with disabilities.
This Webinar is open to the public and is free, but you need to register in 
advance so we can send you login instructions.  Register at the EASI 
Webinar page.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

In November, Apps4Android became the world's largest user of Google's 
Text-to-Speech Library. Google developer's use Apps4Android's Speaking Pad 
application to test their new voices before releasing them to market. Since 
its inception on January 17, 2009, Apps4Android has built a customer-base 
of over 400,000 users in 30+ countries.

Apps4Android's Assistive Technology Applications include:
1. iAugcomm(tm): $4.99 IDEAL Group's Augmentative Communication application 
is designed to enhance the communications abilities of people who are 
unable to speak. iAugComm provides a symbol-based method of communication 
that uses the Text-To-Speech (TTS) library for Android.
2. Ask Eindroid(tm): $0.99 A speech recognition, text-to-speech-based 
applications that enables its users to ask and get answers to questions 
about stocks, sports, the news, math, airline flights, restaurants and much 
more with no more effort from you than simply speaking to it. Speaking 
Pad(tm): Free
Speaking Pad: Free
A talking notepad for Android. This notepad will speak what you type. This 
application uses the TTS (Text-To-Speech) library for Android.
Better Voices For Cupcake(tm): $0.99 Provides higher quality voices for 
user of Android smartphones running version 1.5 of Android (Cupcake). This 
makes all of a users talking applications sound better in English (US & 
UK), Italian, German, French, and Spanish.
SMSpeaker and Talking caller ID Bundle: $0.99 Automatically announces the 
number calling you, the name of the caller (if entered into your address 
book) as well as SMS messages. Many features.
The IDEAL Android Accessibility Wizard(tm): Free The objective of IDEAL's 
Android Accessibility Wizard project is to eliminate the complexity of 
working through the variables, described on 
http://accessibility-android.info to enable end-users and retail store 
personnel to quickly, easily and successfully activate and install 
eyes-free and screenreading capabilities on any Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile 
and possibly AT&T (not yet decided) Android smartphones manufactured by 
Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others.

Register at the EASI Webinar page.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm