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Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle Soon Available in Canada |
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Written by Wire Services
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Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
 Wizzard Software and its subsidiary, MedivoxRx Technologies, are pleased to announce that MAVC Health and Wellness Inc. will distribute Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle in Canada. Located in Toronto, MAVC Health and Wellness Inc. is a leading provider of health and wellness programs and products, specializing in a wide range of memory improvement related programs.
Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle is a valuable assistive device for individuals who are elderly, blind, vision impaired, illiterate or who for any reason have difficulty reading or understanding their medication labels. Rex is fully automated through text-to-speech technology, allowing pharmacists to electronically record the label information to the pill bottle in a natural sounding computer generated voice using the pharmacy’s current software and data. As the pharmacist sends the label information to the printer, the label information is recorded into the base of the bottle.
MAVC will distribute Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle and its fully automated text-to-speech technology to pharmacies who will then dispense medications in Rex to their customers who can benefit from this assistance.
MAVC will also distribute Rex Starter Kits which can be purchased directly by the consumer for personal use as well as Rex Refill Kits which contain additional bottles. The Starter Kit includes a custom-designed, easy-to-use bottle recorder with a microphone that allows verbal recording of information into the bottle. Thus, the consumer can record their own bottles in addition to obtaining their prescriptions in bottles recorded by the pharmacist. The patient or a patient's helper can then use the bottles for over the counter medications, vitamins, etc. As with bottles recorded by the pharmacist, to playback the recorded information, the users simply press a button on the base of the bottle and listen to the message.
The software is adaptable to several different languages. Besides english and french, the software is programmed to recognize Chinese, Italian, German, Punjabi and Spanish. "Rex" is designed to play a complete message approximately 300 times. Under most circumstances, "Rex" will continue to "talk" for around six months. |
