BT Speak Applications
Editor
Our editor is front and center on BT Speak. When you power on your unit, you’re automatically in our editor, right back in the document you were last working with. Use friendly and intuitive chord commands from the Braille keyboard to navigate through your documents by character, word, line or by paragraph. Keep up to 20 documents open at once and quickly flip from one document to the next. Place a mark anywhere in your document so that you can easily delete a block of text. Cut, copy and paste blocks of text across any of your documents. Conveniently read and compose documents using contracted Braille and choose the Braille code that’s best for you; Computer Braille, UEB, EBAE (Grade 2), U.K. contracted Braille, and more.
For more detailed information, see: Editor documentation
Voice Command
Use Voice Command to execute a variety of commands just by talking to your BT Speak. Ask for the definition of a word, get the current time and date, receive a local weather forecast and change the master volume level along with other useful commands. Opening the Voice Command app is as easy as pressing V-chord from any open file in our editor. Also see relevant documentation: Voice Command
Voice Notes
This app turns your BT Speak into a capable voice recorder. Use Voice Notes to record a quick phone number, a reminder or your next class lecture. All of your recordings are saved on your device and you can record your notes in Wav, Mp3 or free lossless audio formats.
Media Player
Use our media player to play a variety of different media files. Use the keyboard to increase or decrease the volume and rate of the media. Pause, resume and change the volume using global keystrokes that will work from any document, menu or application. Your BT Speak can now entertain you with music, drama, lectures or any type of media you’d like to listen to. See documentation for more: Media File Browser
Radio Tuner
Our radio tuner lets you listen to over 47,000 radio stations. You can find stations by entering a name (even a partial name) or you can browse the directory by location. Choose from terrestrial as well as Internet-only streams. We even have a category reserved for stations broadcasting specialized content for blind listeners. You can easily add any station to a list of favorites for even faster access. For more details, see: Radio Tuner documentation
Pandora (U.S. only)
Use our Pandora app to listen to music. Play songs, albums and playlists on your BT Speak. Free and paid plans are available. A Pandora account is required to use the service. For more information or to sign up, visit www.pandora.com. Also see Pandora Radio documentation
AI Chat (Chat GPT)
AI Chat is a ChatGPT program specifically tailored to blind users. Ask questions, get information, obtain writing suggestions or just about anything else that comes to mind. An OpenAI key is required. See AI Chat documentation for more details.
Agenda Calendar (optionally sync with Google Calendar)
Use your BT Speak to manage of all of your events and appointments. Easily browse your calendar to read your appointments for the day, for the current week or month by month. Search for an event by date or by keyword. Link your Google Calendar to keep your devices synchronized! See Calendar documentation for details.
Phonebook (optionally sync with Google Contacts)
Organize and manage your contacts effortlessly with BT Speak's Phonebook. Our intuitive interface allows you to store names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, and additional notes for all your contacts. Easily browse and search for specific contacts, and enjoy the flexibility to add unlimited information for each entry. Link your Google account to keep your contacts synchronized between devices!
Scientific Calculator
Built on the robust bc standard, BT Speak's Scientific Calculator is a powerhouse for the math and science needs of children, adult students, and professionals alike. It comes preloaded with essential scientific functions and constants, including Planck's constant, Avogadro's number, the gravitational constant, Boltzmann's constant and many more. In addition to the convenience of a standard four-function calculator, you can calculate exponents, and utilize comprehensive trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. See Calculator documentation for more details.
Stopwatch & Countdown Timer
Use our stopwatch to time an event and get accurate readings down to a tenth of a second accuracy. Press the space key to instantly know how much time has passed. Use the countdown timer to count down, specifying the amount of minutes and seconds for when you want to be notified. See Stopwatch documentation for more details.
Dictionary
Use our dictionary to look up the definition of a word. You can easily review the definition line by line or word by word. Note: an Internet connection is currently required.
Weather
Use our weather app to obtain weather conditions in your local area or in any part of the world. Information can be presented as metric or imperial units, miles per hour, meters per second, knots, and more.
Gregorian Date Calculator
Use the Gregorian date calculator to figure out the day for a specific date or what the date will be 150 days from today. See full documentation for more details: Gregorian Date Calculator
Learn Morse code the fun way! Enter letters, words and phrases and hear them converted into the Morse pattern of dots and dashes.
Morse Code
LibreOffice Writer (word processor)
Writer is a powerful word processor and desktop publishing tool. Write anything from a quick memo to your next book, complete with table of contents and index. Change fonts and styles as needed and use the auto-correct tool to fix typos and spelling mistakes as you work. Since
Writer is compatible with Microsoft Word, you can easily open and save Word documents to seamlessly collaborate with Microsoft Office users. Learn more at https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/
Mozilla Thunderbird (email client)
Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Create as many email accounts as you want and manage all of them separately or in a unified inbox. Use Thunderbird as your contacts manager for keeping track of names, email addresses, phone numbers and other important information. Use powerful search tools so you can focus on just the emails you need to read at any given time.
Learn more at https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
LibreOffice Calc (spreadsheets)
Calc is an accessible spreadsheet application. Calculate, analyze and easily manage your data. Use statistical and banking functions for creating formulas to perform calculations on your data from simple to complex. Use what-if calculations to perform tasks like seeing how changing the time period in a loan calculation affects the interest rates or repayment amounts. Open spreadsheets which were written in Microsoft Excel and save your Calc spreadsheets in Excel’s format for those who are locked into using Office.
Learn more at https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/
Chromium and Firefox (web browsers)
Use these standard Web browsers to access any Web site. Use the Orca screen reader's intuitive commands to move to specific elements or sections of the page, such as next or previous heading, link, table, form control, and more. The same keyboard commands that you already know from other platforms will work the same way from the BT Speak Braille keyboard. For detailed documentation, see: Desktop Applications