[gui-talk] Fw: Article: Restaurant Menus That Talk

[albert griffith]

How much per unit will this device cost?  thanks 

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From:
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mailto:accessibleDevices at googlegroups.com Accessible Devices If you received
this more than once, please accept my apologies.
While this post is way outside the scope of what's normal for us, we may be
able to help ourselves here.  If we pass the word to our local restaurants
maybe we'll finally be able to read the menus.  This article is also
available in the technology News section of Accessible Devices.
Restaurant Menus That Talk
PR Newswire Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Menus That Talk(TM) - Restaurant Menus Get Table Smarts Miami company
introduces portable electronic menus that speak; uniquely serves the special
needs of the visually impaired, elderly and non-English speaking guests
MIAMI, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylannas Inc. announces the launch of an
electronic restaurant menu system, Menus That Talk(TM), a portable, compact
device, approximately the size of a DVD case, that speaks to restaurant
guests, describing selected food items from the hand-held unit's illuminated
buttons. A lighted array of buttons displays major menu categories like
DRINKS, APPETIZERS and SEAFOOD. Guests simply press a button corresponding
to a category and hear brief descriptions of cuisine, wine suggestions,
sides and prices. At the touch of a button, Menus That Talk describes what's
for dinner.
No habla ingles? No problem: Just press the language button for Spanish or
another language. No more squinting in dim light or turning page after page
of complex printed menus. No more awkward conferences with busy waiters.
Ready to order? A Service button pages your waiter. For the visually
disabled, the buttons are also imprinted in Braille. Guests who can't see
the button names and don't use Braille can browse the menu simply by tapping
buttons to hear categories.
Another tap brings up the details.
In noisy restaurants or for the hearing-impaired, Menus That Talk features a
detachable hand-held earphone. The earphone also interfaces with Tele-coil
equipped hearing-aids.
Menus That Talk(TM) serves the needs and comforts of all restaurant patrons
with its simple layout, ease of use and ability to deliver voice anywhere in
the restaurant.
Benefits for the restaurants include streamlining menu selections, reducing
server assistance time and bringing the menu to a larger, appreciative
audience. "Menus should be able to communicate without being a challenge,"
said President and CEO Susan Perry. "We're making a restaurant's entire menu
available to all its customers, and we're making it a pleasurable
experience."
The idea originated in an Olive Garden restaurant where Ms. Perry was having
lunch with her niece Jessica, a pretty 24-year-old with advanced macular
degeneration who cannot read a menu from any distance. Jessica asked her
aunt to please read the menu to her. Susan had forgotten to bring her
reading glasses. They laughed about it, but Susan thought, "Why shouldn't
menus be able to talk?"
Menus That Talk(TM) premieres to the public at the National Restaurant
Association show in Chicago, May 19-22, 2007.
More:
http://www.menusthattalk.com http://www.menusthattalk.com
Contacts:
Susan Perry, President, CEO
mailto:susan.perry at menusthattalk.com susan.perry at menusthattalk.com
305-255-9600 Richard Herbst, VP Marketing
mailto:richard.herbst at menusthattalk.com richard.herbst at menusthattalk.com
cell: 786-449-9351
SOURCE Taylannas Inc.
Related links:
http://www.menusthattalk.com http://www.menusthattalk.com
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http://www.accessible-devices.com www.accessible-devices.com Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
Skype:  steve1963
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