Reading assistance
February 1st, 2008 by rbanks
Smartphones: Kurzweil Develops First Seeing-Eye Cellphone
“The system is simple: users take a picture of a printed page using the Nokia’s high-res camera, with a voice-guided recognition system steering them to an optimal framing point. Press a button and “most” printed materials will be easily read in “clear synthetic speech.” For people with dyslexia or other learning disabilities who can see, the system serves to enlarge, read, track or highlight printed text on the N82′s display.”
Gizmodo
