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Himfr.com Reports Intel Launched For Visually Impaired People's Voice E-reader
According to foreign media reports Pcworld site
, Intel (blog) will begin this week, two groups for the visually impaired, announced a new e-book reader. Which readers can read the material photographed and scanned, and then the content for the visually impaired populations-To-Speech service.The reader named "Intel Reader", priced at 1499 U.S. dollars, for the client for the blind, visually impaired or dyslexic patients, from Intel's digital health sector development. The sector's access to technology operations director of the Fox (Ben Foss), said: "The products are designed for those visually impaired, to provide a good tool for reading groups to enable them to independent reading."
Intel estimates that about 55 million U.S. public needs to use this new e-book reader. Fox said that such a reader will enable visually impaired people to read free books, magazines and newspapers. Without this reader, these groups would have the visually impaired can not read the contents. Users only need the equipment, reading materials placed in the top of the corresponding button to start the reader on the target material will be photographed, and then the contents of the film into electronic text, and in large font on the screen to show up Or you can read the form of speech.
Intel, for this reader is equipped with a 5 million pixel camera and optical character recognition software pre-installed (OCR) and the corresponding text into voice reading software. The reader of storage space for the 2GB, can store about 600 scanned images. If each scanned image can include two-page book as the standard, this device can store about 1,200 pages of paperback fiction content.
In addition to this device can be read aloud scanned text, but also supports MP3, WAV file format, and also supports text files, and digital access to information system (DAISY, for the visually impaired people in the printing system) and other formats. The device's battery life is 4 hours. In order to meet the special needs of visually impaired people, the reader specially designed to interface with a read speed adjustment function.
This week, a reader at the conference, the United States National Center for Learning Disabilities (National Center for Learning Disabilities) Executive Director James Wendorf (James Wendorf), said: "We are excited about the birth of this device, we believe that The device can give millions of visually impaired people to provide real help. "
It is reported that this e-book reader from CTL, Howard Technology Solutions, and HumanWare other retailers to sell. Fox said that Intel's readers as cheap and will form a similar product on the market a greater impact. Currently, similar products on the market such as text amplifier (text magnifier) price of up to 3,000 U.S. dollars, Braille reader prices as high as 7000-10000 U.S. dollars.
Is designed to help visually impaired people, non-profit organization International Association of Lighthouse (Lighthouse International) marketing officer of Victoria Rush (Dorrie Rush) said that in recent years, electronic reader booming market, but until recently there has not been on the market specifically for the visually impaired Scanning the crowd reading material and transformed into a voice reading aloud reader. Dolly himself guilty of visually impaired patients, and she tried Intel's reader, it very much. She said: "Intel has done a very good thing, this product is not only good-looking, but are also brought benefits to us."
Fox said that at present the product only in the U.S. market in the near future will launch the UK version, and then launched against other countries and regions in the corresponding language version.
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