[access-uk] Re: tom tom
- From: "Spring Flower" <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:18:39 -0000
It's not that much larger than a mobile phone. trekker I mean.
Trace
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:19 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: tom tom
Hi James,
I am one of those who is very happy with Wayfinder. The trick is to know
Talks pretty well, as well as Wayfinder. For example, as you are travelling
along, just hit Talks Up Arrow to get your current location. This will be
reported as Next Street, Current Street, and the distance between in Y for
Yards if you have that setting, F for Feet, or Mi for Miles. It is not that
Wayfinder doesn't work well, it is how you interpret the screens, but it sounds
like you may need something like Trekker, which to me, is too big, and the
amount of chatter it gives off would drive me crazy!
All the best
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James O'Dell
Sent: 18 January 2006 22:52
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: tom tom
Hi Terry
I think Wayfinder might be the way to go with this if you want to try it, as
Wayfinder is officially supported by Talks. I have to be honest and say that
I'm really not having much success with it. The information it provides would
seem to be more relevant to cars (even in pedestrian mode), and I haven't
personally found the support of Wayfinder to be enough to get me around
unfamiliar environments. Whether this is just because I've led a sheltered
life :) and did very badly in geography at school, because I'm expecting too
much of it, because I need something a bit more "chatty" than Wayfinder (like
the Trekker), or because the Wayfinder software really isn't up to much as a
mobility aid, I can't say.
I set up a list for people to discuss mainstream GPs technology and its use
by visually impaired people, which you can subscribe to by sending a message to
mainstream-gps-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with the word "subscribe" in the subject line. So far we have a lot of
members and hardly any traffic, so either everyone else has sussed it and is
quite happy, or there are a lot of people like me, the list moderator, without
much of an idea.
Hope this helps
James
----- Original Message -----
From: terry cooper
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: [access-uk] tom tom
Hi
Does anyone know whether its possible to use the tom tom sat nav software
with talks, on the 6630?
I can't get talks to speak anything when I go into the tom tom programme,
that has been installed on my phone.
The software does work, because my sighted friend is able to use it, with a
Bluetooth gps receiver. Unfortunately, talks won't speak anything.
Any comments welcome.
Terry
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