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Menus That Talk uses show to be heard.(Foodservice)

Byline: Mary E. Morrison

Menus That Talk, a Taylannas Inc. company, is a provider of handheld, audio-enabled menus. The devices, which are the size of a DVD case, "speak" a menu in the language a users selects and are also labeled in Braille. Susan Perry, president-CEO of Menus That Talk, got the idea for the device in 2006 after dining with her niece, who has macular degeneration and cannot read menus.

To get the word out about its prototype, Menus That Talk decided to exhibit at the National Restaurant Association's Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago last May. With the limited budget of a startup, the company's 10-foot-by-10-foot booth was its only marketing effort at the ...

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