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Audiopoint, the provider of Voice Terminal Services, introduced an upgrade to its services that is aimed at helping those with vision impairments have access to their calendars on Google Calendar.  A user accesses the service by calling from any landline or cellphone.  Using voice prompts, the user can hear their appointments and add events in quick or detailed mode.  In the future, Audiopoint hopes to add modifying and canceling functions for its Google Calendar service.

Voice Terminal Services is a text to voice service that can read voice-enabled web pages to its users.  It supports e-mail, news, and online calendars, to name a few.  The user can use any phone to access the service. 

Users can subscribe on a monthly or annual basis starting at $1.99 a month for 125 minutes of service, $4.95 a month for 250 minutes, and $12.95 for 1000 minutes. Annual plans start at $199 and max out at $499.  All visually impaired U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being offered the service for free.  If you are reading this then you probably don’t need the service, but you might know someone who does, so please pass it on as you see fit. 

Site: [Audiopoint]