Terry Costlow, Contributing Editor -- Design News, July 14, 2008 Vision impaired, blind and learning-disabled users can hear printed text including menus, documents, signs and receipts. The Reader Mobile unit from KNFB Reading Technology Inc. leverages the high-resolution camera in a Nokia N82 cell phone, letting users photograph text they want to hear. The initial version reads and speaks both French and English. For those who want help reading, the system combines intelligent image-processing software with text-to-speech and text-tracking features so they can enlarge, read, track and highlight text on the phone's large...
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