Phimega Group Post #44

Intel debuts portable text-to-speech reader
posted by soliton at Fri, 20 Nov 2009 - 15:14:45

Thirty-six years ago, Ben Foss conceived of a device that could read
out text from printed pages to help him with his dyslexia. Now Foss is
shipping the product in his role as director of access technology for
Intel's Digital Health group.

The Intel Reader is a paperback-sized device that can take a picture
of printed text with its 5 megapixel camera and convert it to speech.
The company hopes the US$1,499 system will serve millions of people
who have dyslexia or have difficulty seeing printed text.

The Intel Reader is the third system launched by the Digital Health
group, which Intel launched about five years ago to address emerging
opportunities in medical electronics. Like its predecessors, the Intel
Reader is a vehicle for the company's chips. It uses an Atom processor
and 4 GB Intel flash drive as well as Intel's Moblin mobile Linux
operating system. The 4 GB card can hold 600 processed pages or
500,000 raw text pages.

Intel designed the device, has it built by contract manufacturers, and
has agreements to sell it through a handful of specialty dealers in
the U.S. who cater to people with reading impediments. They include
CTL, Don Johnston Inc., GTSI, Howard Technology Solutions, and
HumanWare.

The Intel Reader aims to address a wide variety of ad hoc reading
needs from books and newspapers to instructions and posters. Some
existing electronic readers have text-to speech software, but they
don't support full speech-based menus or enlarge font sizes the way
the Intel Reader does, according to Foss.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20091110corp.htm?iid=pr1_releasepri_20091110r
http://www.elektor.com/news/intel-debuts-portable-text-to-speech-reader.1150379.lynkx


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