Touting hands-free capabilities — including voice recognition and audio playback of text documents — Toshiba has rolled out its newest Pocket PCs, the e400 and e800 series. The Japanese company’s e800 series also now include voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality. Toshiba said the newest versions of its “thin-and-light value-priced” handhelds, priced at $299 for the e400 and $599 for the VoIP-capable e800 series, allow users to access data by voice and hear text documents read to them via text-to-speech audio-playback software.
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Toshiba Pushes VoIP and Text-to-Speech in New PDAs
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 24, 2003 09:59 AMTouting hands-free capabilities — including voice recognition and audio playback of text documents — Toshiba has rolled out its newest Pocket PCs, the e400 and e800 series. The Japanese company’s e800 series also now include voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality. Toshiba said the newest versions of its “thin-and-light value-priced” handhelds, priced at $299 for the e400 and $599 for the VoIP-capable e800 series, allow users to access data by voice and hear text documents read to them via text-to-speech audio-playback software.