VOICE MATE BROCHURE
PARROT PRESENTS THE VOICE MATE
Hand Held Voice Recognition Digital Organizer
NEW FROM PARROT
Voice Mate is the third generation of Parrot's revolutionary organizers which talks and recognizes your voice. Voice Mate uses
the latest digital data storage and speech recognition technologies to provide a talking organizer with a wide range of features
which includes a phone book, a voice note pad, an appointment book, a talking alarm clock and calculator.
Voice Mate offers simplicity and ease of use in a compact and light assistive device.
1 - FEATURES
Voice Mate offers more features and capacity than its predecessors.
More Recording Time : 40 minutes or 80 minutes
High Voice Recognition Quality
Non Volatile Flash Memory: data are saved when replacing batteries
Earphone for discrete use
8 levels of volume control
PC link for storing data and updating software via internet
Personal Identification Code to limit access
Functions are announced verbally
11 languages available:
English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish and Norvegian.
Professional Appointment book
Automatic reminder for recurrent appointment
Talking Calculator with foreign currencies
A voical prompt accompanies every keystroke
Batteries and headset included
ACCESSORIES:
Leather case (optional)
PC transfer Link (optional)
Charger with rechargeable batteries
2 - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VOICE RECOGNITION
Autonomy, Independence and Freedom.
Voice Recognition allows people who are Blind and visually impaired to store and retrieve information such as Phone numbers,
addresses and Appointments easily with voice commands.
Just speak a name already stored by your voice, and Voice Mate will repeat it and find its phone number. Double click and Voice
Mate will send touch tone signals to your telephone receiver to dial the number.
Voice Mate announces functions verbally. This makes it easy to use all its great features, which include:
Phone book
Memo
Appointment Book
Talking Clock and alarm
Calculator
Dialling Assistance
Control Panel
Phone Book:
Use your voice to easily record and retrieve six phone numbers: regular, fax, cell, home, work, other and the address of each of
your contacts.
Memo:
Use a keystroke to record an idea or a message or a task to be done at any time.
Appointment Book:
Verbally Record and retrieve your appointments.
Be reminded of friend's and family's birthdays, times to take medications, or any other repeating events.
Consult daily engagements and the times they take place.
Talking Clock and Alarm:
At any time, a double click announces the date and time.
Talking Calculator:
In addition to the 4 basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You also can access to Memory Set and
Memory Recall.
You can also calculate the price when travelling abroad with the currency converter.
3 - VOICE MATE CONTROLS AND FEATURES
3.1 Phone Book
Record up to 600 names.
6 phone numbers associated with each name:
Regular
Fax
Home
Office
Cellular
Other
Phone Book Features
Enter phone number and name in any order
Phone numbers spoken aloud
Enter addresses verbally
64 characters per phone number
Enter Pauses and stops with numbers for easy phone card use
Automatic phone number dialling
Speed and volume dialling control
3.2 Memo
Record up to 999 messages
Speaking message rank.
Speaking last message
Messages stored by date and time
Message deleted independently
All digital functions: Play, Pause, Insert/Replace, Delete,
Undo, Rewind and Fast Forward
Recording time memorized
Simple or Continuous recording modes
3.3 Appointment Book
Record up to 600 appointments
Verbally Store and Check appointments
Appointments stored by day,
Appointment subjects announced by a double click
Automatic deletion after a user programmed period of time
Reminder
Simple or Keyword recording modes
Appointment alarm
Unlimited message time
3.4 Talking Clock
Fully speaking clock
Musical alarm
12 or 24 hour formats
DD/MM or MM/DD formats
Fully spoken date
3.5 Talking Calculator
Fully synthesized Calculator
Basic operations: Addition, Subtraction, multiplication, Division
Percent
Foreign Currencies converter
Memory Set, Memory Recall
13 digits
3.6 Dialling Assistance
Dialling prefixes (i.e., 9) for switchboard access
International mode
3.7 Control Panel
Volume control (8 levels)
Activation / Deactivation of Accessibility mode
4 possible Keystroke Sounds
Stand by time control (20, 30, 40, or 60 seconds)
Pin Code
Lock your Voice Mate (like a cellular phone)
Other Characters
Dimensions: 13.6 by 6.8 by 1.6 cm (5.4 by 2.7 by 0.6 Inches)
Weight: 150 grams or 5.3 Ounces
Triple A batteries included
Battery Life: Up to 1 month. This depends on volume level and frequency of use.
Warranty: One Year
4 - THE PARROT COMPANY
Parrot is a French company created in 1994 by Henri Seydoux, CEO, and Jean Pierre Talvard, Marketing and Development Manager.
Specialized in development and marketing of Voice Recognition.
Products:
Organizers for Blind and Visually impaired Consumer
Hands Free Car Kit for cellular phones
1995: First distribution network in Europe, the Middle East and
Asia with Parrot V1
1998: New version of Parrot Plus PDA Parrot Plus and Network distribution in North America.
1999: Release of third generation of Parrot Organizer Voice Mate.
Since the beginning, Parrot company has doubled its sales in this market. It also increased its development expense to supply
a voice recognition organizer corresponding to suggestions and recommendations of blind and low vision people
from all over the world who helped us to achieve this mission.
Parrot's staff is made of:
- 17 high level research engineers,
- 11 sales engineers
- 4 administrative
- 9 Production and service after sales
5 - CONTACT INFORMATION
Sales: Christiane Bazin
Tech Support: Hot line