New advances

Cingular Wireless has debuted TALKS, a speech-enabled application designed to address the needs of blind and low-vision mobile device users. TALKS by Cingular Wireless gives the blind and low vision consumer equal access to many of today's advanced wireless services. Created in partnership with ScanSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSFT), TALKS is compatible with the Nokia 6620, essentially turning it into a "talking mobile phone." TALKS converts menus, instructions and content displayed on the Nokia 6620 mobile phone screen into speech for output to the phone's internal speaker or through an optional wired or Bluetooth headset.