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Mobile text2speech scanner

Category: Gadgets/Appliances/Electronics
Responses: 2 (2 in support, 0 neutral, 0 in opposition)
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Imagine this:

a pocketsize device that can scan texts and playback the text in spoked words.

Just combine a small scanner with OCR and Text2Speech functionality.

I think this device would be useful to visually disabled people and illiterate people.

jaapieaapie, Aug 13 2005

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They tried that a few years ago.

classicsat, Aug 14 2005