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  4. *Video: Introducing TalkBack, An Open Source Screenreader 
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  8. We briefly introduced TalkBack in the previous video while enabling /Accessibility/ from the settings menu.
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  9. Here, we show off some of this screenreader's features.
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  11. TalkBack is designed to be a simple, non-obtrusive
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  12. screenreader. What this means in practice is that you interact
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  13. directly with your applications, and not with
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  14. TalkBack. TalkBack's job is to remain in the background and
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  15. provide the spoken feedback that you need.
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  17. TalkBack works with all of Android's native user interface
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  18. controls. This means you can configure all aspects of the Android
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  19. user interface with TalkBack providing appropriate spoken
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  20. feedback. What is more, you can use most native Android
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  21. applications --- including those downloaded from the Android
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  22. Market with TalkBack providing spoken feedback.
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  24. Here are some examples of Android applications (both from Google as well as third-party applications available onmarket) that  work with TalkBack:
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  27.   - Google Maps: Perform searches, and listen to directions.
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  28.   - YouTube: Search, browse categories and play.
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  29.   - Simple Weather: Listen to local weather forecasts.
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  30.   - Facebook: Moving around on the social Web.
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  32. But in this video, we'll demonstrate the use of a very simple but
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  33. useful Android application --- the Android Alarm clock.
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  35.   -  Launch: I launch the alarm clock from  Marvin's eyes-free application launcher.
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  36.   - TalkBack: TalkBack takes over and starts speaking.
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  37.   - Navigate: Navigating  with the trackball speaks the alarm
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  39.   - Activate: Activating with the trackball produces appropriate feedback.
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  40.   - Navigate: Selected alarm displays its settings in a list-view which speaks as we navigate.
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  45. #+TITLE: Video: Introducing TalkBack, An Open Source Screenreader
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  46. #+AUTHOR: T.V Raman
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  47. #+EMAIL: raman@google.com
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  48. #+DATE: 2009-03-30 Mon
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  49. #+LANGUAGE: en
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  52. #http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/documentation/videos/index.html
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  53. #+LINK_HOME: http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/
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