Thread: Intel introduces a digital book reader that reads aloud to the blind
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Old 11-10-2009, 11:47 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Actually they don't support any eBook formats except TXT so this is not a problem for them. DAISY is a format specifically aimed at this market so it is ok. For more information see:
Computerworld article

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I understood that it does an OCR from the photo of a page and uses TTS to read it.

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Intel Corp. today started selling a new e-reader that can snap pictures of books and newspapers and then read them back to people who have a hard time reading the printed page.
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