[nfb-talk] Talking menus.

[Alan Wheeler]

I think it is because I had the NFB talk address in my CC field when I sent
it which probably got it around your filter by accident. LOL!

Sorry to confuse you by accident.

 

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From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mary Ellen Sanchez
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:32 AM
To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Talking menus.

Hi alan is this from a new email address?  I ask as I have a rule set for
the nfb list to go into a folder but it came into my inbox.  Do you know why
that is?
Your Friend,
Mary.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Alan Wheeler
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 4:46 AM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List'
Cc: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
Subject: [nfb-talk] Talking menus.

>>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


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