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

[Don Moore]

Menus change faster than the ability to get them brailed timely and accurately.
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But less than 10% of blind people read Braille, and this rate is much
less among seniors.  Seniors who go blind are not likely to learn
Braille to the proficiency level necessary to read a Braille restaurant
menu.

Andy
 

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Frankly, Braille is a better option; no batteries to run down.

Sincerely yours,
The Constantly Barefooted,
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and God bless America
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From:
mailto:Vipcomm at mchsi.com Parker at Vip conduit
To:
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
http://www.vipconduit.com/ www.vipconduit.com
and
http://www.accessible-devices.com www.accessible-devices.com
Regards Steve
Email: srp at internode.on.net
Skype: steve1963
MSN Messenger: internetuser383 at hotmail.com



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