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Old 11-11-2009, 09:54 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by badbob001 View Post
So in the mean time, how do their visually impaired students read?
When I was a postgraduate in 1989, we had a scheme to support blind members of the university. I spent an evening a week reading law journal articles onto tape, together with a team of other volunteers. (I rather liked the criminal law, but the module on tort was rather dull.)

Then the university acquired a Kurzweil reader which scanned and produced text-to-speech, which could be recorded onto tape.

This technology has made great strides in the last decade.
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/
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